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The Ups and Downs of Bureaucratic Organization

Olsen, Johan P. - ARENA - 2007

Why do democracies give birth to bureaucracies and bureaucrats? How and why has a seemingly undesirable and unviable organizational form weathered relentless criticism over many years and is possibly experiencing a renaissance? Normative democratic theory, theories of formal organizations, and...

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EU Governance: Where do we go from here?

Olsen, Johan P. - ARENA - 2008

How can students of the European Union get from describing recent advances, to speculating about what are possible new directions and research agendas? How promising are terms such as “governance” and “the new governance” for improving the understanding how the Union is overned and...

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Elaborating the "New Institutionalism"

March, James G.; Olsen, Johan P. - ARENA - 2005

To sketch an institutional approach, this paper elaborates ideas presented over 20 years ago in The New Institutionalism: Organizational Factors in Political Life (March and Olsen 1984). Institutionalism, as that term is used here, connotes a general approach to the study of political...

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Democratic government, institutional autonomy and the dynamics of change

Olsen, Johan P. - ARENA - 2009

Against the backdrop of decades of public sector reforms in Europe, this essay aims to make sense of the processes through which institutions, democratic government included, achieve and lose autonomy or primacy and why it is difficult to find a state of equilibrium between democratic government...

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Understanding Institutions and Logics of Appropriateness: Introductory Essay

Olsen, Johan P. - ARENA - 2007

This section (1) presents three landmark articles that are part of a research agenda launched more than twenty years ago. Then, “The New Institutionalism: Organizational Factors in Political Life” invited a reappraisal of how political institutions could be conceptualized, to what degree...

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A Labor Mobility Agenda for Development

Clemens, Michael - 2010

globalization of almost all factors of production—except labor. So far, this policy has failed to cause the living standards of most … people in most developing countries to converge with living standards in rich countries. But the globalization of labor … forward is for rich countries to greatly open up legal pathways for temporary labor movement. …

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Skill Flow: A Fundamental Reconsideration of Skilled-Worker Mobility and Development

Clemens, Michael - 2009

Large numbers of doctors, engineers, and other skilled workers from developing countries choose to move to other countries. Do their choices threaten development? The answer appears so obvious that their movement is most commonly known by the pejorative term “brain drain.” This paper...

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Migration and Development Research Is Moving Far beyond Remittances - Working Paper 365

Clemens, Michael; Özden, Çaglar; Rapoport, Hillel - 2014

Research on migration and development has recently changed, in two ways. First, it has grown sharply in volume, emerging as a proper subfield. Second, while it once embraced principally rural-urban migration and international remittances, migration and development research has broadened to...

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Skill Development and Regional Mobility: Lessons from the Australia-Pacific Technical College - Working Paper 370

Clemens, Michael; Graham, Colum; Howes, Stephen - 2014

Developing countries invest in training skilled workers and can lose part of their investment if those workers emigrate. One response is for the destination countries to design ways to participate in financing skilled emigrants’ training before they migrate—linking skill creation and skill...

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A Case against Taxes and Quotas on High-Skill Emigration - Working Paper 363

Clemens, Michael - 2014

Skilled workers have a rising tendency to emigrate from developing countries, raising fears that their departure harms the poor. To mitigate such harm, researchers have proposed a variety of policies designed to tax or restrict high-skill migration. Those policies have been justified as Pigovian...

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