Industrial Change and Regional Economic Transformation: The Experience of Western Europe

In the early 1990s, the Central and Eastern European countries (CEE countries) saw the collapse of communist regimes and an unprecedented political and economic transformation that resulted in the establishment of democratic, law-governed states and market economies. Administrative reforms, which became an important milestone in this transformation, were considerably influenced both by administrative legacies predominant in the countries and by the Europeanization processes associated with their accession to the European Union. The administrative legacies, which combine elements of various traditions (e.g., German, Napoleonic, and Anglo-American) are still strongly affected by what is left of the communist era. Conversely, the impact of Europeanization processes on public administrations in CEE countries has proved to be much weaker than initially expected. The process of building a professional and apolitical civil service in CEE countries has been plagued by discontinuity and inconsistency, owing to the specific administrative culture of the region, the weakening pressure to modernize EU institutions, and the consequences of the 2008 financial crisis, as well as growing populist tendencies in the region. All these factors encouraged the belief that political control over public administration needs to be tightened in order for the effectiveness and quality of governance mechanisms to be improved. The quality of governance and public management varies widely across the CEE countries. What they have in common—at least to some extent—is the fairly high dynamics of change, including the reversal of the effects of previously implemented reforms. The latter factor may be interpreted as a search for country-specific reform paths, partly due to disappointment with the values and models prevailing in Western Europe, and somewhat as a consequence of growing populist tendencies in the region.

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Irrigation Sector Development: Agro- Economic transformation and Social change in Colonial District Multan (1849-1901)

Global Social Sciences Review ◽

10.31703/gssr.2020(v-iii).40 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol V (III) ◽

pp. 374-381

Author(s):

Abida Kausar Chuadhary

Keyword(s):

Economic History ◽

Quantitative Methods ◽

Economic Transformation ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

Economic Policies ◽

Canal System ◽

Regional Economic ◽

Qualitative And Quantitative ◽

Qualitative And Quantitative Methods ◽

Continuity And Change

The aim of this research is to analyze the historical process of continuity and change that led to the socio-economic transformation associated with irrigation sector development in nineteenth-century Multan, thus supplying a missing piece in South Asian Regional economic history and it became unplanned revolution and modernization as happened with colonial Multan. The introduction of the perennial canal system and the commercialization of agricultural crops provided a real opportunity for the economic development of this region. What were the socio-cultural impacts of regional economic policies, and how it penetrates as processes of continuity and change? This research derives its frame of reference by mixing historical, qualitative and quantitative methods of research. The selected data is analyzed from a dialectical rationale approach to critical discourse. This research is based on original, unpublished official reports from British Indian Library London, Punjab Civil Secretariat Lahore.

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Regional economic transformation: Changing land and resource access on the West Coast of New Zealand’s South Island

Land Use Policy ◽

10.1016/j.landusepol.2019.04.008 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 93 ◽

pp. 103947 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Etienne Nel ◽

Sean Connelly

Keyword(s):

West Coast ◽

Economic Transformation ◽

The West ◽

Regional Economic ◽

Resource Access

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