ISSN:0952-1895    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0491.1993.tb00133.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1993

数据来源: WILEY

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A growing consensus among many observers of Western European politics has developed in recent years that, in certain countries, national level, consensus‐based political bargaining arrangements involving representatives of organized capital, trade unions, and the state are giving way to more sectorally‐based, conflictual forms of relations. These developments suggest an overall decline in the efficacy of national‐level corporatist institutional structures in the liberal democracies of Western Europe. This article contends that neither of the two general theoretical approaches to the study of corporatism ‐ the liberal model of the “neocorporatist state” (which fails to acknowledge the potential for serious system‐threatening instability within corporatism) nor the Marxist model of corporatist “political structures” (which incorrectly predicts labor‐generated corporatist instability due to inevitable rank‐and‐file discontent with the policy outputs of corporatist forms) ‐ can account for this current wave of macro‐corporatist instability and decline. In response to this theoretical impasse, this article develops a capitalist‐centered explanation for the declining significance of corporatist forms. Business interests, it is maintained, may no longer be viewing corporatist arrangements as beneficial due to certain domestic structural economic changes and to transformations in

ISSN:0952-1895    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0491.1993.tb00134.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1993

数据来源: WILEY

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The International Monetary Fund imposes policy conditions upon Sierra Leone in exchange for loans. The country's president, however, shapes these policies into tools for his domestic struggle to control strongmen‐politicians active in the informal (black) market. The president seeks political gain by manipulating creditor demands that he promote foreign in‐vestment. This internal dynamic of “reform” does not accomplish creditors' public aims of supporting stronger state institutions. But creditors acquiesce in some of the president's manipulations of reforms when they generate arrears payments. Ironically, Sierra Leone's president proves able to translate creditor and foreign investor demands into political resources in his effort to bolster his extremely weak political au

ISSN:0952-1895    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0491.1993.tb00135.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1993

数据来源: WILEY

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This article focuses upon the implementation of data protection as a learning process involving both regulators and those whose information practices are regulated. From this conceptual perspective, and using the British data protection system as an example, it describes the interactions in this process of governance within the context of factors that influence implementation and affect the achievement of policy objectives. It refers to related analytical strategies for understanding governance and learning in this rapidly changing and technologically conditioned field of regulation.

ISSN:0952-1895    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0491.1993.tb00136.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1993

数据来源: WILEY

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This article tests the hypothesis that leftist governments concede higher wage increases to their public sector employees than right‐wing governments. Leftist governments are expected to be more generous toward public sector employees because of their commitment to public sector intervention, and because of the heavy representation of the public sector among leftist party elite and clientele. The study examines all major wage settlements signed between 1967 and 1984 in the Canadian provincial public sector and finds that, everything else being equal, wage increases are 10% higher under leftist governments. The standard economic variables (labor demand, expected inflation and spillover from previous contracts) that have been shown to affect wage increases in the private sector also emerge as significant. Finally, the data indicate that the greater the public debt the more constrained governments feel to negotiate minimal wage increases. These findings establish that a proper understanding of public sector labor relations requires a consideration of political as well as economic variable

ISSN:0952-1895    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0491.1993.tb00137.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1993

数据来源: WILEY

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This article examines recent developments in the public administrative system in Northern Ireland. The conflict in Northern Ireland has received widespread publicity, Yet government in the region continues. Public services are delivered. The article considers how the public administrative system has played its part in the management by the British government of the conflict. There are many other situations where there is political violence. The Northern Ireland case may offer insights to public administrators and policymakers in managing such situations.

ISSN:0952-1895    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0491.1993.tb00138.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1993

数据来源: WILEY

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The bulk of the subsidy cost of European Communities (EC) credit programs is not represented in the EC budget. The cost of EC loans and guarantees are not shown, and only token entries are included for the possible activation of guarantees connected to borrowing and lending. Only in the case of credit programs which entail an interest‐rate subsidy, does the budget show an amount corresponding to the subsidy cost. EC budgeting and accounting methods, like those in most member states, hide the full cost of the EC credit programs. The lack of subsidy disclosure has political implications in terms of budget decision‐making and control; budget authorities have neither adequate information to compare the trade‐offs among the various credit assistance programs and other expenditure programs, nor to evaluate or measure the efficiency and effectiveness of credit operations. Moreover, the citizens of Europe, who are taxpayers both in their states and, to a lesser extent, in the Community, do not have a clear understanding of the costs and benefits of credit programs, either at the state or the EC level. The article refers to the US experience of federal credit reform, especially with regard to the disclosure of the cost of credit programs, as a good example of budget transparency and investigates to what extent this experience could be applied to the European Commun

ISSN:0952-1895    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0491.1993.tb00139.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1993

数据来源: WILEY

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Book review in this article:Public Choices and Policy Change: The Political Economy of Reform in Developing Countries. By Merilee S. Grindle and John W. Thomas.Delivering Health Care Comprehensively. By Richard Brotman, David Hutson, Irving Silverman, and Frederic Suffet.History and Context in Comparative Public Policy. By Douglas E. Ashford, ed.The Hollow Hope: Can Courts Bring About Social Change?by Gerald N. Rosenberg.

ISSN:0952-1895    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0491.1993.tb00140.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1993

数据来源: WILEY