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risk management. This implies managing upstream and downstream risks. Again we see that regulatory capitalism is not only about ...

regulatory capitalism. In most developing societies taxpaying remains unregulable and this has closed the door on credible state ...

typically are better networked into other fonts of power than the presidents of medium-sized states. Consequently large corporat ...

especially in Asian constitutions such as those of Thailand and Taiwan that conceive of themselves as having more than three bra ...

Accountability International, and the Sustainable Agriculture Network (Courville 2003 ) operate, research on devolved regulatory ...

downstreamWrms in the same industry) became important national, regional, and global regulators. This was a very diVerent capita ...

Courville,S. 2003. Social accountability audits: challenging or defending democratic governance?Law and Policy, 25 ( 3 ): 267 – ...

Loughlin, M. and Scott,C. 1997. The regulatory state. Pp. 205 – 19 inDevelopments in British Politics 5 , ed. P. Dunleavy, I. Ho ...

Stigler, G. J. (ed.) 1988 .Chicago Studies in Political Economy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Stiglitz,J.E. 2002 .Globa ...

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description of each, and then drawing on current research that reXects on how legislative organization reaches these ideals and ...

this information building function, with committee systems that break down policy-making responsibilities according to distinct ...

by delaying agreement, but by making it more diYcult to alter the status quo, they should encourage policy stability in the long ...

mandated that elections would be based on closed lists, and that voters would not have the option of casting preference votes fo ...

voter casts a ballot for her or hisWrst-choice candidate, and the candidates with the most votes are elected in each district, u ...

and gender. Afghan rules—as outlined initially—lean toward privileging connections between voters and individual candidates, but ...

on comparative legislative representation tends to favor PR over SMD, there is less academic consensus on the relative merits of ...

2 Accountability through Transparency In light of this, it is worth considering the extent to which legislatures do, in practi ...

minimizing procedural barriers to recorded voting boost the amount of information available to those outside the legislature abo ...

make a career out of legislative service alone, as in most national-level assemblies, representatives are eVectively policy-maki ...