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abstract: Will China's rise fundamentally change global governance? Answering this question requires grasping how sequences shape the development of institutions across time. The books that we review adapt the standard historical institutional (hi) conceptual toolkit—path dependence, reactive sequences, and gradual institutional change—to explain institutional persistence and change in global governance. We argue that international regime complexity (irc) scholarship is a necessary complement because the international institutional context differs from the domestic context in important ways. irc generates two sequencing mechanisms that the standard hi toolkit misses. Disjointed sequences occur when actors relocate their efforts to other parts of the regime complex, creating changes that reverberate across parallel international institutions. International nondecisions are stymied efforts to adapt global institutions to address pressing concerns, in which the nondecision pushes the construction of substitutes outside of global institutions. The standard hi toolkit, plus the two irc sequence types, compose a helpful framework for thinking about what China's rise portends for the politics of global governance.

Background: The EUREST-PLUS ITC Europe surveys aim to evaluate the impact of the European Union's Tobacco Products Directive (EU TPD) implementation within the context of the WHO FCTC. This article describes the methodology of the 2016 (Wave 1) and 2018 (Wave 2) International Tobacco Control 6 European (6E) Country Survey in Germany, Greece, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Spain; the England arm of the 2016 (Wave 1) and 2018 (Wave 2) ITC 4 Country Smoking and Vaping (4CV) Survey; and the 2016 (Wave 10) and 2017 (Wave 11) ITC Netherlands (NL) Survey. All three ITC surveys covering a total of eight countries are prospective cohort studies with nationally representative samples of smokers. Methods: In the three surveys across the eight countries, the recruited respondents were cigarette smokers who smoked at least monthly, and were aged 18 and older. At each survey wave, eligible cohort members from the previous waves were retained, regardless of smoking status, and dropouts were replaced by a replenishment sample. Results: Retention rates between the two waves of the ITC 6E Survey by country were 70.5% for Germany, 41.3% for Greece, 35.7% for Hungary, 45.6% for Poland, 54.4% for Romania and 71.3% for Spain. The retention rate for England between ITC 4CV1 and ITC 4CV2 was 39.1%; the retention rates for the ITC Netherlands Survey were 76.6% at Wave 10 (2016) and 80.9% at Wave 11 (2017). Conclusion: The ITC sampling design and data collection methods in these three ITC surveys allow analyses to examine prospectively the impact of policy environment changes on the use of cigarettes and other tobacco products in each country, to make comparisons across the eight countries.

City-States as International Financial Centres – Towards a Political Economy of the City-State.

Covers -- Editorial advisory board -- Editorial -- 30 years of IJPSM publications: an analysis -- The provenance of public management and its future: is public management here to stay? -- Public management: 30 years on -- Public administration research since 1980: slipping away from the real world? -- Thirty years of public management scholarship: plenty of "how," not enough "why" -- Is there still a need for teaching and research in public administration and management? A personal view from the UK -- Getting to Norway – 30 years of public management research -- Three decades, four phases -- Management, management everywhere: whatever happened to governance? -- Exploring 30 years of UK public services management reform – the case of health care

Multinational corporations (MNCs) are frequently pictured as being at the vanguard of global integration.They face strong incentives to maximize economies of scale in research and development, purchaising, production and marketing, and encounter low barriers in the dissemination of technologies and best practices. This special issue brings together various papers that focus on different aspects of the tension between global and local within MNCs

"A typical image of the making and administration of policy suggests that it takes place on an incremental basis, involving public servants, their ministers and, to a more limited extent, a variety of interest groups. Yet, much policy making is based on similar policy developed in other jurisdictions and in the major international organizations such as the WTO and the OECD. In other words, significant aspects of nationally developed policies are copied from elsewhere in what is described as a process of policy transfer and learning. Hence, studies of policy transfer have pointed to a distinct limitation in most existing theoretical and empirical explanations as to how policy is made and implemented through their neglect of the role of policy transfer and learning. Moreover, policy transfer is not only a concern of academics, but a growing concern for governments. The latter are concerned to improve the performance of their policy and several have placed a greater, more systematic focus on policy transfer as a means to increasing performance. This book presents a variety of cases from differing national and international contexts that enable a valuable, comparative analysis that is absent from most literature currently available and that suggest a number of exciting research directions with implications for policy making, transference and implementation in the future."--Publisher's website

Annexes 1 et 2 non diffusées (entretiens p. 53 à 65) ; Ce mémoire traite des stratégies que les radios internationales mettent en place pour acquérir de l'information dans des pays censurés et ici, en Birmanie. Les nouvelles envoyées par l'État totalitaire aux médias internationaux sont censurées selon les sujets. L'enjeu pour les journalistes étrangers aux pays en dictature est de créer leur propre information au sein d'un milieu hostile. En complément de cet aspect, il y a aussi celui de la diffusion d'information en direction des peuples subissant la censure. Les radios internationales adoptent alors une stratégie de diffusion qui répond à une volonté politique.

Annexes 1 et 2 non diffusées (entretiens p. 53 à 65) ; Ce mémoire traite des stratégies que les radios internationales mettent en place pour acquérir de l'information dans des pays censurés et ici, en Birmanie. Les nouvelles envoyées par l'État totalitaire aux médias internationaux sont censurées selon les sujets. L'enjeu pour les journalistes étrangers aux pays en dictature est de créer leur propre information au sein d'un milieu hostile. En complément de cet aspect, il y a aussi celui de la diffusion d'information en direction des peuples subissant la censure. Les radios internationales adoptent alors une stratégie de diffusion qui répond à une volonté politique.