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The Architecture of Policy Transfer

Tim Legrand

This book investigates the increasing circulation and transfer of public policy ideas between the UK, US and Australia since the 1990s. It argues that the upsurge in policy transfer amongst and between these states can be explained by a structural and shared commitment...



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China's Uneven and Combined Development

Steven Rolf

This book mobilises the theory of uneven and combined development to uncover the geopolitical economic drivers of China’s rise. The purpose is to explain the formation and trajectory of its economic ‘accumulation system’ — which remains a confounding hybrid of statist...



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Mass Strikes and Social Movements in Brazil and India

Jörg Nowak

This book explores new forms of popular organisation that emerged from strikes in India and Brazil between 2011 and 2014. Based on four case studies, the author traces the alliances and relations that strikers developed during their mobilisations with other popular...



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Welfare and Inequality in Marketizing East Asia

Jonathan D. London

The world-scale expansion of markets and market relations ranks among the most transformative developments of our times. We can refer to this process by way of a generic if inelegant term – marketization. This book explores how processes of marketization have registered...



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Institutional Entrepreneurship and Policy Change

Caner Bakir , Darryl S. L. Jarvis

This book is about the role of agents in policy and institutional change. It draws on cross-country case studies. The focus on ‘agency’ has been an important development, enabling researchers to better reveal the causal mechanisms generating institutional change (i.e.,...



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Regulation of Infrastructure and Utilities

Alberto Asquer

This book provides a comprehensive discussion of the public policy and management issues that are encountered in the regulation of infrastructure and utilities. Drawing from theoretical arguments and several case studies, the book is divided into three parts, namely...



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Hong Kong 20 Years after the Handover

Brian C.H. Fong , Tai-Lok Lui , Tai-Lok Lui

This book examines the socio-political conflicts which have arisen since Hong Kong’s return to China and confronts the fundamental problems in the design of the One Country, Two Systems (OCTS) Model.  It considers not only the issue of democratization, but also the...



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Policy Capacity and Governance

Michael Howlett , M Ramesh , Xun Wu

This book provides unique insights into the role of policy capacity in policymaking and policy change, as it is being uncovered at the research frontier in contemporary policy studies. The book is structured into a series of sections on policy capacity in theory and...



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The Regulatory Regime of Food Safety in China

Guanqi Zhou

This book examines the decade from 2004 to 2013 during which people in China witnessed both a skyrocketing number of food safety crises, and aggregating regulatory initiatives attempting to control these crises. Multiple cycles of “crisis – regulatory efforts” indicated...



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The Political Economy of Local Regulation

Alberto Asquer , Franco Becchis , Daniele Russolillo

This book offers theoretical and methodological guidelines for researching the complex regulation of local infrastructure, utilities and public services in the context of rapid urbanisation, technological change, and climate change. It examines the interactions between...



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