Between Market & Institutions Is there leeway for local actors in shaping restructuring in Europe ?
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Publisher: Presses univ. de Louvain
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Total Pages: 42
ISBN-13: 287558068X
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Between Market & Institutions
Author: Valeria Pulignano
Publisher: Presses universitaires de Louvain
Published: 2013-01-10
Total Pages: 42
ISBN-13: 9782875580672
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInstitutional literature about restructurings (AB-Inbev, Carrefour, Opel, etc.) has been criticised for being overly deterministic. This article aims to accommodate such criticism by illustrating how market matters to the way restructuring is conducted.
Market in State
Author: Yongnian Zheng
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-09-06
Total Pages: 493
ISBN-13: 110847344X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUses the framework of 'market in state', to argue that the Chinese economy is state-centered, dominated by political principles over economic principles.
Uniting of Europe
Author: Ernst B. Haas
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Published: 2020-11-15
Total Pages: 642
ISBN-13: 9780268201685
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe University of Notre Dame Press is pleased to bring Ernst Haas's classic work on European integration, The Uniting of Europe, back into print. First published in 1958 and last printed in 1968, this seminal volume is the starting point for anyone interested in the pre-history of the European Union. Haas uses the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) as a case study of the community formation processes that occur across traditional national and state boundaries. Haas points to the ECSC as an example of an organization with the "power to redirect the loyalties and expectations of political actors." In this pathbreaking book Haas contends that, based on his observations of the actual integration process, the idea of a "united Europe" took root in the years immediately following World War II. His careful and rigorous analysis tracks the development of the ECSC, including, in his 1968 preface, a discussion of the eventual loss of the individual identity of the ECSC through its absorption into the new European Community. Featuring a new introduction by Haas analyzing the impact of his book over time, as well as an updated bibliography, The Uniting of Europe is a must-have for political scientists and historians of modern and contemporary Europe. This book is the inaugural volume of Notre Dame's new Contemporary European Politics and Society Series.
Institutional Change and Globalization
Author: John L. Campbell
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2004-08-15
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780691089218
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is about some of the most important problems confronting social scientists who study institutions and institutional change. It is also about globalization, particularly the frequent claim that globalization is transforming national political and economic institutions as never before.
Reforming Infrastructure
Author: Ioannis Nicolaos Kessides
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 328
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKElectricity, natural gas, telecommunications, railways, and water supply, are often vertically and horizontally integrated state monopolies. This results in weak services, especially in developing and transition economies, and for poor people. Common problems include low productivity, high costs, bad quality, insufficient revenue, and investment shortfalls. Many countries over the past two decades have restructured, privatized and regulated their infrastructure. This report identifies the challenges involved in this massive policy redirection. It also assesses the outcomes of these changes, as well as their distributional consequences for poor households and other disadvantaged groups. It recommends directions for future reforms and research to improve infrastructure performance, identifying pricing policies that strike a balance between economic efficiency and social equity, suggesting rules governing access to bottleneck infrastructure facilities, and proposing ways to increase poor people's access to these crucial services.
Market Expansion and Social Dumping in Europe
Author: Magdalena Bernaciak
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-06-05
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 1317660935
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe term ‘social dumping’ regularly appears in public debates and in policymaking circles. However, due to its ambiguity it is used in a manner that is convenient for individual discourse participants, thus opening the door for misconceptions and ill-grounded accusations. This book systematically examines social dumping in the context of the European integration process. It defines social dumping as the practice, undertaken by self-interested market participants, of undermining or evading existing social regulations with the aim of gaining a competitive advantage. It also shows how the two major EU integration projects the creation of the Internal Market, and EU enlargement to the east and to the south have provided market actors with new incentives and opportunities to contest existing social ‘constraints’. The empirical chapters examine social dumping practices accompanying labour migration, employee posting and cross-border investment distribution. In addition, they outline the process of formation of social standards and trace initiatives at EU and national levels that contribute to the spread of social dumping in Europe. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of employment relations, EU studies, international political economy, globalisation studies, welfare studies, social policy and migration studies.
Europe's Foreign and Security Policy
Author: Michael E. Smith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780521538619
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe emergence of a common security and foreign policy has been one of the most contentious issues accompanying the integration of the European Union. In this book, Michael Smith examines the specific ways foreign policy cooperation has been institutionalized in the EU, the way institutional development affects cooperative outcomes in foreign policy, and how those outcomes lead to new institutional reforms. Smith explains the evolution and performance of the institutional procedures of the EU using a unique analytical framework, supported by extensive empirical evidence drawn from interviews, case studies, official documents and secondary sources. His perceptive and well-informed analysis covers the entire history of EU foreign policy cooperation, from its origins in the late 1960s up to the start of the 2003 constitutional convention. Demonstrating the importance and extent of EU foreign/security policy, the book will be of interest to scholars, researchers and policy-makers.
Global Trends
Author: National Intelligence Council and Office
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2017-02-17
Total Pages: 80
ISBN-13: 9781543054705
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis edition of Global Trends revolves around a core argument about how the changing nature of power is increasing stress both within countries and between countries, and bearing on vexing transnational issues. The main section lays out the key trends, explores their implications, and offers up three scenarios to help readers imagine how different choices and developments could play out in very different ways over the next several decades. Two annexes lay out more detail. The first lays out five-year forecasts for each region of the world. The second provides more context on the key global trends in train.
The European Restructuring Directive
Author: Gerard McCormack
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2021-04-30
Total Pages: 319
ISBN-13: 1789908817
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis comprehensive book provides a clear analysis of the European Restructuring Directive, which aims to improve national frameworks governing business restructuring and insolvency as well as to provide debt relief for individuals. Gerard McCormack explores the key aspects of the Directive including the moratorium on litigation and enforcement claims against the financially-troubled business, the provision for new financing, the division of creditors into classes, the introduction of a restructuring plan and the rules for approval of the plan by a court or administrative authority.
