Pub Date : 2021-09-14DOI: 10.1080/13876988.2021.1978819
W. Wong, Alfred M. Wu
Abstract This article investigates the nuanced and disaggregated role of state and civil society in the fight against COVID-19 in Hong Kong and Singapore through a comparative policy study. Hong Kong and Singapore provide two contrasting cases of state-society interaction under the framework of Political Nexus Triads (PNT). Hong Kong combats COVID-19 with greater dependence on its civil society and bureaucrats, while Singapore relies more on a state-centred approach. They represent the diversity of state-society relations and multiple configurational causality in the COVID-19 responses and question the efficacy of any single and contextless model.
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Pub Date : 2021-08-31DOI: 10.1080/13876988.2021.1965885
M. González Rivas
Abstract This paper highlights the comparative value of an international capstone course on sustainable water management in a graduate public and international affairs program. By exposing students to experiential learning in two contexts, students develop an in-depth understanding of policy and can make realistic comparative policy analysis and reflect on the implementation challenges. I argue that students’ reflection is of understanding in practice the limitations and possibilities of transferability of policies and practices. By using the SDG #6 on water as a framework; students develop an in-depth understanding of policies that aim to address global challenges at the local level. My course adds on what others have argued are the benefits of reflection and action for students’ education, and more specifically on the students’ exposure to the comparative policy in context.
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Pub Date : 2021-08-24DOI: 10.1080/13876988.2021.1945418
H. Anheier, A. Filip
Abstract This paper examines the policy approaches and measures that developed market economies countries have adopted to “manage” what has become known as the Dahrendorf Quandary, a profound challenge facing globalizing economies: over time, staying economically competitive requires either adopting measures detrimental to the cohesion of society or restricting civil liberties and political participation. Examining a range of countries over time, it is found that their policy choices and subsequent performance are too varied to support the inevitable, almost mechanical, incompatibility the Quandary implies. While balancing the relationship between economic globalization, social cohesion, and democracy continues to be a major challenge for developed market economies, results show they are not helpless in what Dahrendorf feared to be a Herculean task of “squaring the circle” among incompatible trends. In other words, while the tensions the Quandary posits apply, they nonetheless need not lead to similar or negative outcomes.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-20DOI: 10.1080/13876988.2021.1939013
K. Chung, M. Choi
Abstract We empirically investigate how trade pattern – institutionally intensive export (IIX) – affects institutional quality, a source of comparative advantage for IIX. Using panel data for147 countries from 2002 to 2016, we examine the effect of IIX on institutional quality across regions. Our estimation results of fixed effects and dynamic panel models show significant regional heterogeneity. Most noticeably, the effect is negative and significant only for East Asia robustly in all dynamic models. Our result suggests that IIX may not unambiguously improve institutional quality across the board, and the effect needs to be considered differently across regions.
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Pub Date : 2021-05-05DOI: 10.1080/13876988.2021.1908828
Pamela Bernales-Baksai, Ricardo Velázquez Leyer
Abstract The article analyses progress towards universal healthcare in Latin America by comparing the cases of Chile, where coverage was expanded and new benefits were added under a dual public-private model, and Mexico, where a voluntary public insurance programme was layered along existing social insurance schemes. The analysis adopts the framework of policy architectures. Both cases register significant equity gaps and segmentation of the population. Still, the Chilean system achieves higher coverage and generosity due to the unification of the public sector. In Mexico, the low quality of public schemes pushes families into unregulated private providers, triggering a process of implicit commodification.
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Pub Date : 2021-04-13DOI: 10.1080/13876988.2021.1908829
H. Grimm, J. C. Jiménez
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Pub Date : 2021-04-01DOI: 10.1080/13876988.2021.1897787
C. González, Santiago Gómez Álvarez
Abstract Regulation is a policy instrument that governments use to achieve their goals. This is affected by the delegation and control schemes to which independent regulatory agencies (IRAs) are subject. The article compares how countries evolved following the introduction of IRAs in the early 1990s in the telecommunications, gas, and electricity sectors in Latin America. It develops a model based on the logics of delegation and diffusion channels to determine which patterns are encountered in the region. It was found that, in the three sectors, control has increased more than delegation, and this has followed mainly a sectoral diffusion pattern.
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Pub Date : 2021-04-01DOI: 10.1080/13876988.2021.1902238
P. Copeland
policy instruments relate to each other and whether it is at all possible for governments to attain policy coherence given the policy legacy officials inherit when they are elected into office. Such a discussion would provide a welcome contribution to the literature on policy coherence. These considerations result in a second perspective that appears fruitful for expanding the purview of this research and refers to explicit political attempts to change the way policies are made. The authors reflect on attempts by governments to push deregulation. However, there are also documented efforts to change the way policies are created. A case in point is the United Kingdom, where the government tends to present visions for how they want to modify the policymaking process with a view to make it more effective, efficient and/or transparent. Another example refers to the European Union (EU) and its commitment to “better regulation”, which the EU Commission found to have delivered on its promises to make EU law simpler while still achieving the intended policy goals. To put these observations in a question: How does this book relate to “better regulation” agendas? Third, the authors concentrate on responsive government, which corresponds to the standard perspective of comparative politics on the relationship between elected policy makers and their voters. However, in much of his work, the influential scholar Peter Mair, for example, contended that governments do not only have to be responsive, but also responsible regarding the longterm needs of the people they represent. From this perspective, policy makers need to balance short-term, explicitly articulated demands and long-term, only implicitly articulated or entirely unarticulated demands of those same people. Adding the notion of responsibility to the analysis could perhaps result in a different interpretation of the empirical patterns observed. To conclude, Christian Adam and coauthors offer a compelling analysis of a relevant empirical phenomenon, which is strong in both its theoretical and empirical components but requires good prior knowledge and an understanding of various literature streams. Advanced students and scholars of comparative public policy will appreciate this theory-led empirical research. Additionally, this book can offer doctoral students a point of departure for developing their own research agendas which may reflect on some of the avenues outlined above.
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Pub Date : 2021-03-26DOI: 10.1080/13876988.2021.1893111
Omer F. Baris, Colin Knox, Riccardo Pelizzo
ABSTRACT This paper examines the relationship between governance and economic development. Specifically, it empirically investigates what “good enough” governance means in post-Soviet Eurasia with an emphasis on Central Asia. The subject is crucial for international donors in terms of optimizing interventions to effect change. The findings shed some light not only on which governance dimensions are critical to secure economic growth but also on how much good governance is needed to yield developmental dividends. In this respect, the analyses confirm Grindle’s hypothesis that not all governance dimensions affect economic performance. The evidence supports a more radical version of Grindle’s argument, namely that political stability is the most crucial component in Central Asia.
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Pub Date : 2021-03-16DOI: 10.1080/13876988.2021.1894073
Amy Raub, Aleta Sprague, Willetta Waisath, A. Nandi, Efe Atabay, Ilona Vincent, Gonzalo Moreno, A. Earle, N. Perry, J. Heymann
Abstract Historically, a lack of comparable data on the laws and policies that shape health, education, poverty, and other outcomes has hindered researchers’ ability to provide rigorous evidence on the effectiveness of different policy designs. This article describes public-use downloadable data built by the WORLD Policy Analysis Center to fill this gap. Over 2,000 quantitatively comparable measures of national laws and policies across 193 countries were assembled. This open-access data source provides a tool for monitoring the adoption of evidence-based laws and policies, identifying policy gaps, and rigorously evaluating how policies shape outcomes across different regions and socioeconomic contexts.
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