Case Studies in the Political Economy of Tax Reform

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
George R. Crowley
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Tax Reform ◽  
The Political

Writing Politics: Ottoman Governmentality and the Language of Reports

2018 ◽  
pp. 116-145
Author(s):  
M. Safa Saraçoglu
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
The State ◽  
Significant Part ◽  
The Political ◽  
Local Administration ◽  
Essential Component ◽  
State And Society ◽  
Provincial Capital ◽  
False Accusations

This chapter focuses on the official correspondence between Vidin’s administrative council and the provincial capital, Ruse. These reports pertaining to events in Vidin County were a part of the political procedures of the local judicio-administrative sphere. As such, politics of local administration influenced the official correspondence and our understanding of the events in Vidin County. The writing of reports and petitions and other provincial administrative/judicial practices (such as interrogations) constituted a significant part of Ottoman governmentality. Those who could shape how the official correspondence was constructed gained advantage in local political economy. Such correspondence was an essential component of how provincial Ottoman government functioned; therefore, reports, petitions, false accusations, and interrogations became important tools for agents and groups who were engaged in hegemonic negotiations. Both elite and non-elite agents were able to utilize Ottoman governance to pursue their own strategies against other local agents or imperial government. People who refused to use these bureaucratic tools in making claims and negotiating were presented in this correspondence as defiant stubborn and violent. This perspective is critical of the state–society divide, as the case studies reveal a more complex singular government of state and society.

scholarly journals The political economy of universal health coverage: a systematic narrative review

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 364-372 ◽  
Author(s):  
Syed Shahiq Rizvi ◽  
Rundell Douglas ◽  
Owain D Williams ◽  
Peter S Hill
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Universal Health Coverage ◽  
The Political ◽  
Health Coverage ◽  
Political Dimensions ◽  
National Ownership ◽  
Specific Interests ◽  
Political Framing ◽  
Universal Health

Abstract The uptake and implementation of universal health coverage (UHC) is primarily a political, rather than a technical, exercise, with contested ideas and diverse stakeholders capable of facilitation or resistance—even veto—of the policy uptake. This narrative systematic review, undertaken in 2018, sought to identify all peer-reviewed publications dealing with concepts relating to UHC through a political economy framing. Of the 627 papers originally identified, 55 papers were directly relevant, with an additional eight papers added manually on referral from colleagues. The thematic analysis adapted Fox and Reich’s framework of ideas and ideologies, interests and institutions to organize the analysis. The results identified a literature strong in its exploration of the ideologies and ideas that underpin UHC, but with an apparent bias in authorship towards more rights-based, left-leaning perspectives. Despite this, political economy analyses of country case studies suggested a more diverse political framing for UHC, with the interests and institutions engaged in implementation drawing on pragmatic and market-based mechanisms to achieve outcomes. Case studies offered limited detail on the role played by specific interests, though the influence of global development trends was evident, as was the role of donor organizations. Most country case studies, however, framed the development of UHC within a narrative of national ownership, with steps in implementation often critical political milestones. The development of institutions for UHC implementation was predicated largely on available infrastructure, with elements of that infrastructure—federal systems, user fees, pre-existing insurance schemes—needing to be accommodated in the incremental progress towards UHC. The need for technical competence to deliver ideological promises was underlined. The review concludes that, despite the disparate sources for the analyses, there is an emerging shared narrative in the growing literature around the political economy of UHC that offers an increasing awareness of the political dimensions to UHC uptake and implementation.

Labour market policies in the era of European pervasive austerity: a review

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sotiria Theodoropoulou
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Empirical Approach ◽  
The Political ◽  
State Change ◽  
Labour Market Policies ◽  
Recent Policy ◽  
Selection Of

This chapter introduces the questions that the book addresses. It explains the rationale and motivation of the book with reference to the existing literature on welfare state change and the political economy thereof, as well as within the context of recent policy developments. It then justifies the empirical approach and explains in more detail the rationale behind the selection of national case studies.

The Political Economy of Tax Reform in Venezuela

1990 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 199 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diego Abente
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Tax Reform ◽  
The Political

Tracking the Political Economy of Dance

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Desmond
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
African American ◽  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
The Political ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Cultural Communities ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
Complex Goal

This chapter analyzes the processes of transporting community-based dance practices to the stage, and argues that previously dominant formulations of “appropriation” are not complex enough to theorize this “political economy” of dance practices, practitioners, and audiences as dance forms move across cultural communities and onto the stage. Taking three disparate case studies as a way of thinking through these issues, this chapter investigates works by Twyla Tharp on Broadway, by Chuck Davis and his African American Dance Ensemble on stages in New York or Durham, NC, and Hawaiian hula performances in tourist venues and local halaus, or studios, to suggest that a more complex goal and sharper theoretical practice would be to literally track the political economy of dance practices, the accrual of monetary and cultural capital, and the ways that meanings change for performers and audience when dances move across cultural and commercial/non-commercial boundaries.

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