Reform capacity / Johannes Lindvall
- Bib ID:
- 7423967
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Lindvall, Johannes, author
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- Edition:
- First edition.
- Description:
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- Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2017
- 1 online resource.
- ISBN:
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- 9780191821134 ((electronic bk.))
- 0191821136 ((electronic bk.))
- 9780191079450 ((electronic bk.))
- 0191079456 ((electronic bk.))
- Invalid ISBN:
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- 0198766866
- 9780198766865
- Full contents:
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- Cover; Reform Capacity; Copyright; Acknowledgments; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; 1: Two Theories of Effective Government; The Problem of Reform Capacity; Concentrating or Sharing Power; Institutions and Conflicts; Expediency and Justice; The Choices We Face; 2: Compensating the Losers; Compensation and Side Payments; Power Sharing, Compensation, Reform; Reforming Trade; Reforming Labor Markets; The Pitfalls and Promises of Power Sharing; Technical Appendix; The political system; Policy choices; If compensation is not possible; If compensation is possible; 3: How Reforms Fail
- Dilution Costs and Deadweight CostsInternal Costs and Audience Costs; Reforms in the Low Countries; Commitment Problems; Coalition Governments and Government Debt; How Reforms Fail; Technical Appendix; If compensation is costly; The bureaucracy game; The election game; Measuring commitment potential; 4: Formal and Informal Power; Institutions and Interest Groups; Labor Market Reforms in Western Europe; Reforms and Protests in France; Failed reforms; Labor law and old-age pensions in neighboring countries; Successful reforms; French lessons; Unions, Institutions, and Political Strikes
- A Realist's ViewTechnical Appendix; Regression results; 5: Future-Oriented Reforms; Democracy's Time Scale; Reforming Pension Systems; Reforming Tax Systems; Crises; A Time to Judge Every Deed; Technical Appendix; 6: Reform Capacity; Main Lessons; From Reform Capacity to Good Government; The Way We Live Now; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
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- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed July 14, 2017).
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