scholarly journals The Farsighted Stability of Global Tade Policy Arrangements

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Berens ◽  
Lasha Chochua ◽  
Gerald Willmann
Keyword(s):  
Policy Arrangements ◽  
Farsighted Stability

scholarly journals Tensions in Urban Transitions. Conceptualizing Conflicts in Local Climate Policy Arrangements

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 78
Author(s):  
Winfried Osthorst
Keyword(s):  
Climate Policy ◽  
Policy Change ◽  
Local Governance ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Town Planning ◽  
Ecological Modernization ◽  
Political Debate ◽  
Local Climate ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
Policy Arrangements

Academic and political debate places great expectations on cities’ potential for furthering decentralized, bottom-up climate policies. Local policy research acknowledges the role of local agency to develop and implement sustainability, but also acknowledges internal conflicts. This partly reflects tensions between different functions of the local level, and different governance models related to them. In addition, local dependency on higher level competencies, resources, and overarching strategies is discussed. This article proposes a focus on political processes and power relationships between levels of governance, and among relevant domains within cities, to understand the dynamics of policy change towards sustainability. Researching these dynamics within local climate policy arrangements (LCPAs) is proposed as an approach to understanding the complexities of local constellations and contradictions within them. It makes the distinction between “weak” and “strong” ecological modernization, and relates it to two basic rationales for local governance. The resulting typology denotes constellations characterizing policy change ambitions towards local climate policy in crucial domains, including economic development, energy infrastructures, climate change management, town planning and housing, and transportation. This article argues that this approach overcomes the limitations of the predominating conceptualizations of urban carbon control strategies as consistent, and recognises the multi-level dimension of such internal urban processes.

Health Policy in East Asia: Objectives, Priorities and Performance

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Gyu-Jin Hwang
Keyword(s):  
Social Rights ◽  
Common Belief ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
Welfare Capitalism ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Policy Arrangements ◽  
Policy Objectives ◽  
The Common ◽  
And Performance ◽  
High Level

This article aims to identify how the economies that do not necessarily prioritise social rights in their social policy arrangements fare in achieving various healthcare objectives. The big five of East Asian countries – China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore plus Hong Kong – are considered as such cases. It first highlights a wide range of variations in their healthcare offerings. It then shows that, contrary to the common belief, they constitute a surprisingly high level of redistributive elements in them. Deviating from their overall welfare regime characteristics, each healthcare system presents a unique combination of policy objectives in social, medical, economic and political terms, raising a question of the utility of social rights as a central conceptual lens to understand the world of welfare capitalism.

Private Land Conservation and Public Policy: Land Trusts, Land Owners, and Conservation Easements

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 337-354 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dominic P. Parker ◽  
Walter N. Thurman
Keyword(s):  
Private Land ◽  
Conservation Easements ◽  
Land Trusts ◽  
Policy Reforms ◽  
Organizational Economics ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Land Owners ◽  
Private Land Conservation ◽  
Policy Arrangements ◽  
Public And Private Stakeholders

We highlight the extraordinary growth in private conservation via land trusts and conservation easements and describe the problems arising from the interplay of public finance and private decisions. We offer a framework for understanding the popularity of easements and land trusts and for evaluating policy reforms aimed at improving their performance. The framework, grounded in institutional and organizational economics in the tradition of Ronald Coase, Oliver Williamson, and Yoram Barzel, focuses on the measurement and monitoring costs faced by public and private stakeholders under current and prospective policy arrangements. We illustrate how the framework can be applied to contemporary debates about the appropriate tax treatment of donated easements, requirements that they be held in perpetuity, and the extent to which government should regulate private land trusts.

scholarly journals Farsighted Stability for Roommate Markets

2011 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 921-933 ◽  
Author(s):  
BETTINA KLAUS ◽  
FLIP KLIJN ◽  
MARKUS WALZL
Keyword(s):  
Farsighted Stability

scholarly journals Tools of Government for Russian Development: The Case of Housing

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 307-333
Author(s):  
Marina Khmelnitskaya
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Policy Instruments ◽  
Housing Sector ◽  
Policy Tools ◽  
Structural Factors ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Policy Sector ◽  
Policy Arrangements

The article analyses the use of policy tools in the Russian housing sector, associated with the government’s objective of development, and examines the pattern of complementarity that exists between the policy tools. Building on the insights of historical institutionalist and public policy literatures, it argues that the choices of policy tools are determined by institutional and policy sector specific structural factors and temporal calculations by the policy makers leading them to adopt specific ‘bundles’ of policy instruments as well as doubling policy arrangements.

From food aid to food security: the case of the Safety Net policy in Ethiopia

2010 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carly Bishop ◽  
Dorothea Hilhorst
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Social Security ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
Security Policies ◽  
Food Aid ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Amhara Region ◽  
Local Responses ◽  
Early Implementation ◽  
Policy Arrangements

ABSTRACTEthiopia's Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP) is an attempt to bring food security to 5 million people by providing them with social security to close the yearly hunger gap, coupled with development projects to lift them permanently out of poverty. The programme is an example of the new policy arrangements that aim to link relief to social security and development. This paper analyses the early implementation of the PSNP in two villages of the Amhara Region. The paper shows how the programme was in practice interpreted and used by local authorities to realise a related programme of voluntary resettlement, and how this locally changed the objective from helping the most vulnerable people, to reserving the benefits of the programme for the more affluent and economically potent households. It shows how local responses to food security policies were informed by institutional patterns, discourses about food insecurity and the articulation of policy with adjacent or past policy practices.

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