the political economy of communication rethinking and renewal

... both the coordinated and the liberal models. The first will be exemplified by the Nordic countries, in particular Finland and to some extent Sweden; the second by the US and the UK, and the ... systems (the dynamics of firms and economic sectors) with political economy (research on the social and political regulation of economic relations) and thereby contributing to the analysis of state ... draft only 2 The Political Economy of the ‘New Biology’: Biotechnology and the Competition State Abstract The central hypothesis of this paper is that the bio -economy is critically...

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... change for the time being. Now the strategy is essentially a return to the ‘policy of a calm hand’ (Politik der ruhigen Hand) of the summer of 2001, in the hope of some sort of spin-off from global ... the doctors and the health insurance funds. Thus, the KBV collects the bills on behalf of the doctors and negotiates collec- tive contracts with the funds. Because of the KBV system, the funds ... of Modell Deutschland in the 1970s and early 1980s, the success of which was based on a subtle interaction between the welfare state, the system of collective bargaining and the federal budget. 14 Social...

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... the embeddedness of governing elites (that is, the political leadership and the economic technocracy) in state institutions, and the way technocrats and political leaders relate to each other ... discussion of the institutional configuration of state power in Thailand and the Philippines, a discussion that will occupy the rest of this dissertation. Thailand’s Bureaucratic Polity and the ... Thailand’s history has been rife with coups and counter- coups, with different factions of the military competing against each other for political power and the spoils of office. Nevertheless,...

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... empirical data and examples to illustrate the inequities of the trading system, the persistence of unequal exchange, the myths surrounding the benevolence of aid, phantom aid and the degree of capital ... economic and political orthodoxy of the advocates of globalisation. Also available The End of Development: Modernity, Post-Modernity and Development Trevor Parfitt The Political Economy of Turkey Zülküf ... book examines the empirical bases for these narratives of the political economy of development with reference to Africa primarily and focuses on the economies in which the poorest, or the ‘Bottom...

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... introduces the reader to the contours of the political economy of development and the institutional regime within which ‘creditor states’ 13 compete and co-operate in the extension of markets. The term ... debt, and the higher costs of living following the ‘Volcker Shock’ 12 adjustment. Then, the negotiated settlement of the debt crisis, between the creditor banks, the creditor governments and the ... the Northern states, borrowing money from them rarely helps the poor, it just deepens the debt cycle and turns the private sector of the developing country into a playground for the rich of the...

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... critically obscures how the divide between the global haves and have-nots is maintained; the technical slights of hand are the implementing policy machine of the political economy of development. It ... concentrated in the IFIs and large banks. They exist at the ‘commanding heights’ (Arrighi 1994: xii), in the boardroom of the global economy, and their relatively small number explains in part both the herd ... primary issues emerge: the problem of risk assessment in economic exchange and the distribution of costs and profits in the risk regime as a whole. The problem of assessment prompts the question MAKING...

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... senior official in the CDC in 1993, referring to the case of Kenya, noted that the CDC would take investment decisions: by understanding the human nature of these people, how they are moving and the ... of equity, and the institutionalisation of risk which underwrites it, forms the skeleton of the political economy of development in the poorest and most indebted countries. It secures and returns ... greater prof- itability of merchant capital through ‘opening’ markets and the promotion of ‘free’ trade (and the associated reduction of the ability of governments to tax moving goods), the role of...

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... arguably, the Corporation became the sole acceptable represen- tative of the British state, with promotion of local citizens and the presence of the Regional Controller and office which ‘took the edge ... interests: those of the British state which sponsored it and the particular interests of the people it would employ overseas given the structural position of the colonies in the world economy and sterling ... losses 4 as the immediate needs of the British Empire and the general shortage of dollars in the sterling area caused the Colonial Office to press the Corporation into large-scale food production and...

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... will, among others, be of a public choice nature and include the importance of the particular financial institution to the local economy and its potential systemic impact on the rest of the financial ... 80% and 100%; and in terms of number of banks between 36% and 100%. In terms of assets of nonbank financial institutions, the coverage of our sample is between 47% and 90%. Almost 42% of these ... the subject of intense debate, with proponents of a sudden shift of views of (foreign) investors as the main cause on one side and proponents of weak fundamentals as the major cause on the other...

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... dismissal, and legal term of office of the governor of the central bank; the institutional location of the final authority for monetary policy and the procedures for the resolution of conflicts ... conflicts between the government and the bank; the importance of price stability in comparison to other objectives; and the stringency and universality of limitations on the ability of the govern- ment ... Visiting Scholar at the Deutsche Bundesbank, the Bank of Japan, the Banque de France, the Bank of England, and the Federal Reserve System. Professor De Haan is Jean Monnet Professor of European Economic...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 10:20

... interact with the main macroeco- nomic variables, such as the level of GDP per worker, the openness of the economy, the level of debt and the share of agriculture, and with other socio- economic ... share of elderley people, the female labour force participation, and also the urbanization process, the density of the population and the size of the shadow economy. Plotting a measure of the ... regimes the level of redistributive spending should be minimal. The third tenet of the formal voting theory emphasizes the importance of the form of the voting game’. On the contrary, there...

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... overused, then the problem becomes exacerbated and the credibility of the discipline, and the authenticity of the histories being written, is threatened. 12 Such an outlook reflects much of the historiography ... considerations were at the heart of the formation of a semi-professional rugby league in the north of England in 1895. 54 Given the class dimensions of the game in the Australian context (described ... written, there is enough evidence to compile a snapshot of these codes in the early part of the twentieth century. In the case of rugby (later rugby union), it is clear that the ante- cedents of the...

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