Institutional Reforms and Agency Design

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel A. Crane
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Reforms ◽  
Agency Design

The Second Start of Transformation in Ukraine?

2014 ◽  
pp. 30-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Grigoryev ◽  
E. Buryak ◽  
A. Golyashev
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Political Crisis ◽  
Investment Climate ◽  
Institutional Reforms ◽  
Personal Consumption ◽  
Governance Quality ◽  
Political Turmoil

The Ukrainian socio-economic crisis has been developing for years and resulted in the open socio-political turmoil and armed conflict. The Ukrainian population didn’t meet objectives of the post-Soviet transformation, and people were disillusioned for years, losing trust in the state and the Future. The role of workers’ remittances in the Ukrainian economy is underestimated, since the personal consumption and stability depend strongly on them. Social inequality, oligarchic control of key national assets contributed to instability as well as regional disparity, aggravated by identity differences. Economic growth is slow due to a long-term underinvestment, and prospects of improvement are dependent on some difficult institutional reforms, macro stability, open external markets and the elites’ consensus. Recovering after socio-economic and political crisis will need not merely time, but also governance quality improvement, institutions reform, the investment climate revival - that can be attributed as the second transformation in Ukraine.

Socio-cultural Resource for Kazakhstan Modernization

2012 ◽  
pp. 74-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Stavinskaya ◽  
E. Nikishina
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Competitive Advantages ◽  
Institutional Reforms ◽  
Cultural Resource ◽  
Bonding Social Capital ◽  
Social And Cultural Capital ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social And Economic Development ◽  
Cultural Features

The opportunities of the competitive advantages use of the social and cultural capital for pro-modernization institutional reforms in Kazakhstan are considered in the article. Based on a number of sociological surveys national-specific features of the cultural capital are marked, which can encourage the country's social and economic development: bonding social capital, propensity for taking executive positions (not ordinary), mobility and adaptability (characteristic for nomad cultures), high value of education. The analysis shows the resources of the productive use of these socio-cultural features.

Expansion of the Prime Minister’s Power in the Japanese Parliamentary System

Asian Survey ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 59 (5) ◽  
pp. 844-869
Author(s):  
Harukata Takenaka
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Reforms ◽  
Parliamentary System

This paper shows how a series of institutional reforms since 1994 have transformed the Japanese prime minister’s relationship with other actors in the Japanese parliamentary system and expanded his power. It further discloses that his power has grown even more since the formation of the second Abe administration in 2012.

Governance, Institutional Reforms and Modernisation of Public Sector (The Quaid-i-Azam Lecture )

2016 ◽  
Vol 55 (4I-II) ◽  
pp. 257-265
Author(s):  
Ugo Pagano
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Memorial Lecture ◽  
Institutional Reforms ◽  
Racial Tolerance ◽  
Instrumental Role

It is a matter of great honour for me to deliver the Quaid-i-Azam memorial lecture. He is an everlasting source of inspiration for me due to his two unmatched attributes, i.e. tolerance and determination. To me, this combination of qualities in Jinnah made him a symbol of glory and grandeur. Tolerance in particular can play an instrumental role in changing a society’s outlook, and Jinnah set an example for us for being an emblem of tolerance. Tolerance with all its manifestations in different facets of life is direly needed in our society. For instance, religious, ethnic and racial tolerance can be considered as the first step towards forming a sound and rational society. In the same way, this gathering today has given me immense satisfaction, as different views from different schools of thought are assimilated and tolerated.

The President and the “Wisemen”: Institutional Reforms and Political Stalemate

2014 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Luca Lanzalaco
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Reforms

Resource Rich Muslim Countries and Islamic Institutional Reforms

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liza Mydin ◽  
Hossein Askari ◽  
Abbas Mirakhor
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Reforms ◽  
Muslim Countries

Bridging the Gap between Political and Penal Legitimacy

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ralph Henham
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Social Value ◽  
The Political ◽  
Institutional Reforms ◽  
Social Morality ◽  
Penal Policy ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Sentencing Policy ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter argues that the relationship between penal policy and the political economy provides important insights into the political and institutional reforms required to minimize harsh and discriminatory penal policies. However, the capacity of sentencing policy to engage with this social reality in a meaningful way necessitates a recasting of penal ideology. To realize this objective requires a profound understanding of sentencing’s social value and significance for citizens. The greatest challenge then lies in establishing coherent links between penal ideology and practice to encourage forms of sentencing that are sensitive to changes in social value. The chapter concludes by explaining how the present approach taken by the courts of England and Wales to the sentencing of women exacerbates social exclusion and reinforces existing divisions in social morality. It urges fundamental changes in ideology and practice so that policy reflects a socially valued rationale for the criminalization and punishment of women.

The Conceptual Framework: Growth, Institutions, and Social Orders

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Lorenzo Capussela
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Institutional Economics ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Institutional Reforms ◽  
Reversible Process ◽  
Main Determinant ◽  
Social Orders

This chapter lays out one part of the theoretical framework of the book, drawn from institutional economics. This literature maintains that institutions are the main determinant of long-term growth, and that to remain ‘appropriate’ institutions must evolve in synchrony with an economy’s progress through the stages of its development. Their evolution depends on a society’s openness to political creative destruction. Limited-access social orders tend to constrain it, to safeguard elites’ rents, and typically undermine progressive institutional reforms, breaking that synchrony. The transition from that social order to the open-access one is an endogenous and reversible process, in which inefficient institutions, which allow elites to extract rents, coexist with appropriate ones, which constrain their power and make it contestable. The hypothesis is advanced that Italy has not yet completed this transition, and that the tension between its efficient and inefficient institutions can endogenously generate shocks, which open opportunities for equilibrium shifts.

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