Agriculture posed considerable tensions for the processes of enlargement of the European Union, because of its … enlargement. It seems likely that agricultural policy in the enlarged EU will attach increased priority to objectives such as …

. Secondly, major reforms should be accompanied by consistent co-ordinated efforts to persuade voters and stakeholders of the … regime to be reformed also matters. This paper relates to The Political Economy of Reform: Lessons from Pensions, Product …

Five generic reforms, price liberalization, property privatization, macroeconomic stabilization, microeconomic … respond to each proposal. This can in turn be used to determine the likelihood of success of a democratic polity in transition …

Building on a model that integrates reforms into exogenous and endogenous growth models, this paper designs an … hypotheses about transition are tested using two-stage least squares on a logit model using data for six countries (Bulgaria, the … the empirical evidence. (1) Contrary to the litany that everyone favors reforms, we find that voting for strong reform …

An extensive program of economic liberalization reforms, even when it generates positive outcomes, does not … automatically generate support for further reforms. Societies respond with strong support only after experiencing the effects of … reversing these reforms (i.e. corruption, inequality of opportunity). This point is illustrated through the example of the post …