The Political Economy of Institutional Change in the Electricity Supply Industry: Shifting Currents

Author:   Carlos Rufín
Publisher:   Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Edition:   illustrated edition
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9781843762034


Pages:   240
Publication Date:   19 December 2003
Format:   Hardback
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Through a variety of analytical lenses, this text helps fill a gap in the political economy of second-wave, or microeconomic, reforms around the world, and more specifically in the context of the electricity supply industry, where such reforms have been as problematic as they have been widespread. The text shows that ideological considerations and bargaining over the distribution of economic rents accruing from certain institutional arrangements are powerful shapers of institutional change. At the same time, the legacy of the past does not appear to have a clear or systematic effect on the direction of second-wave reforms that seek to transform existing economic institutions. If distributional conflicts can be resolved, these conclusions provide grounds for optimism about the ability to create new institutions even in countries where little favourable precedent exists. Political economy and public policy scholars, specialists on business-government relations and non-market strategy and those interested in Latin America should find this comprehensive book of interest. Practitioners involved in the design and implementation of second-wave reforms around the world should also find this a useful addition to their library.

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Author:   Carlos Rufín
Publisher:   Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Imprint:   Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Edition:   illustrated edition
ISBN:  

9781843762034


ISBN 10:   184376203
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   19 December 2003
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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`Institutional change is seldom easy. However, research such as this should help in a major way to keep expectations connected to reality and to provide guidance that points to hidden assumptions about the fertility of the field of reform and unintended consequences of planting before the ground is prepared'. -- From the foreword by William W. Hogan


'Institutional change is seldom easy. However, research such as this should help in a major way to keep expectations connected to reality and to provide guidance that points to hidden assumptions about the fertility of the field of reform and unintended consequences of planting before the ground is prepared'. -- From the foreword by William W. Hogan


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Carlos Rufín, Associate Professor of International Business and Director, Global Business Program, Sawyer Business School, Suffolk University, US

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