Under the "community building" banner, Chinese municipalities are encouraged to experiment with a new model of urban management, based on creating grassroots social networks gathering a variety of private and public players to deal with community matters. The informal mobilization of...

In this article, we analyze recent dynamics of the Dutch health care sector, a hybrid system of public, private and professional elements, in terms of clashing discourses. Although these elements are intricately interwoven, this does not mean that the system is stable. Most notably, since the...

Since the middle of the nineteen-eighties, the French system of corporate governance has undergone some major transformations. Originally, it was dominated by the State's important weight in the structures constraining managerial discretion in some of France's largest firms. But, the public...

The last quarter of the twentieth century was characterized by economic reforms in many formerly state-dominated economies. Among them, the reform attempts by China and India have attracted increasing attention in the popular media and academic research. This paper contribute to this research by...

The Lisbon Treaty or Reform Treaty represent in brief the current position of the European Union member states towards the idea of European economic integration. One important characteristic of this Lisbon Treaty is the fact that it amends at the same time two previous treaties, namely the...

The guide in the elaboration of this article was the work of the famous attorney of the new institutionalism, D. North, named “Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance”. His central idea was focused on the retaining wall of the necessity of an institutional change that to...

Recent evolutions in Europe raise questions on the viability of the actual economic and social model that defines the European construction project. In this paper, using the logics of economic theory, we will try to explain the viability of institutional European model that stick between free...

The Article applies the NWW-approach to the economic history of post-war Germany. The approach suggests it was only after the Second World War that Germany arrived at the most advanced institutional structure that does not any longer restrict access to economic and political resources. Though...

As an instance of externally induced regime change, the postwar West German case is both highly exceptional and importantly paradigmatic; it is more usefully read as a cautionary tale than as a recipe for future action. Local circumstances, some tied to earlier patterns of social and political...

Public sector unions push for unmerited wage increases, exacerbating inflation and deficits. Despite this conventional wisdom, governments in several European countries successfully limited public sector wage growth during the 1980s and 1990s. This article argues that the recent rise in public...