scholarly journals Introduction to the JIPD Special Issue on Infrastructure

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 176
Author(s):  
Giuseppe Eusepi ◽  
Richard E. Wagner ◽  
Qingyang Gu
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Public Private Partnerships ◽  
The Political ◽  
Demand Side ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Public Infrastructure ◽  
Efficient Tool ◽  
The Public ◽  
Infrastructure Policy

Our intention in assembling this special issue of the Journal of Infrastructure, Policy and Development is to offer a state-of-the-art tour through the political economy issues associated with the provision of public infrastructure, and with the use of Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) in particular. Anyone who is familiar with PPPs cannot fail to be impressed by the diversity of positions and claims regarding their properties. Some scholars maintain that PPPs are an efficient tool to enhance productivity due to their ability to manage demand-side risk. In contrast, other scholars see in PPPs a scheme whereby the public assumes the risk while the private partner takes the profit.

The First British Empire, the Whig Supremacy, and the East India Company

2019 ◽  
pp. 19-49
Author(s):  
James M. Vaughn
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
The State ◽  
East India Company ◽  
The Political ◽  
Public Infrastructure ◽  
The Public ◽  
East Indian ◽  
Territorial State ◽  
Colonial Expansion ◽  
Landed Elite

This chapter discusses the efforts to transform the political economy of England's imperial expansion during the Commonwealth (1649–1653). The architects of the Commonwealth's new imperial political economy were principally drawn from the worlds of unregulated Atlantic trading and East Indian interloping. In alliance with elements of the landed elite and middling social strata in London, these new merchant groupings helped to shift England's centralized territorial state away from an essentially extractive relationship with overseas commercial and colonial expansion—whereby the state attempted to “arbitrarily” raise revenues from such expansion—toward a new relationship in which the state was fully committed to providing the public infrastructure and military protection necessary for the unlimited flow of English trade, shipping, and investment across the globe.

Investing Resource Wealth: The Political Economy of Public Infrastructure Provision

2011 ◽  
pp. 165-216
Author(s):  
Naazneen H. Barma ◽  
Kai Kaiser ◽  
Tuan Minh Le ◽  
Lorena Viñuela
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
The Political ◽  
Public Infrastructure ◽  
Infrastructure Provision ◽  
Resource Wealth

Leisure, Surveillance, and the Private Sector in India

2019 ◽  
pp. 67-98
Author(s):  
Pradip Ninan Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Public Private Partnerships ◽  
The Political ◽  
Double Movement

This chapter furthers the exploration of surveillance in India against the background of the Snowden revelations and WikiLeaks by focusing specifically on the role played by the private sector in the extension of surveillance, often through public–private partnerships. It explores the political economy of the surveillance industries in India against the power of ‘code’ and ‘algorithmic power’. It highlights the role played by transnational search and social networks such as Google and Facebook, and the nature of the power to control affective behaviour. It also deals with the use of code in India’s leisure industries and illustrates Polanyi’s ‘double movement’ in the use of code by communities in India as an expression of its democratization.

The Political Economy of Health: Revisiting Its Marxian Origins to Address 21st-Century Health Inequalities

2020 ◽  
pp. e1-e8
Author(s):  
Michael Harvey
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Public Health Research ◽  
The Political ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Race And Racism ◽  
The Public ◽  
Critical Theories ◽  
Political Economy Of Health ◽  
Marxian Political Economy

The “political economy of health” is concerned with how political and economic domains interact and shape individual and population health outcomes. However, the term is variously defined in the public health, medical, and social science literatures. This could result in confusion about the term and its associated tradition, thereby constituting a barrier to its application in public health research and practice. To address these issues, I survey the political economy of health tradition, clarify its specifically Marxian theoretical legacy, and discuss its relevance to understanding and addressing public health issues. I conclude by discussing the benefits of employing critical theories of race and racism with Marxian political economy to better understand the roles of class exploitation and racial oppression in epidemiological patterning. (Am J Public Health. Published online ahead of print December 22, 2020:e1–e8. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2020.305996 )

scholarly journals The Political Economy of Redistribution Policy

2019 ◽  
pp. 519-541
Author(s):  
Luna Bellani ◽  
Heinrich Ursprung
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Public Choice ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
The Political ◽  
Economic Relationships ◽  
The Public ◽  
Generic Models ◽  
Redistribution Policy ◽  
Choice Analysis ◽  
Beliefs And Attitudes

The authors review the literature on the public-choice analysis of redistribution policies. They restrict the discussion to redistribution in democracies and focus on policies that are pursued with the sole objective of redistributing initial endowments. Since generic models of redistribution in democracies lack equilibria, one needs to introduce structure-inducing rules to arrive at a models whose behavior realistically portrays observed redistribution patterns. These rules may relate to the economic relationships, political institutions, or to firmly established preferences, beliefs, and attitudes of voters. The chapter surveys the respective lines of argument in turn and then present the related empirical evidence.

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