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Quasi-markets in the welfare state: the emerging findings
In: Studies in decentralisation and quasi-markets
In: SAUS study 14
Optimal employment and investment policies in self-financed producer cooperatives
In: EUI working paper, 162
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Unemployment, migration and industrialization in Yugoslavia: 1958 - 1982
In: EUI working paper, 90
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The performance of politically connected firms in South East Europe: state capture or business capture?
In: Post-communist economies, Band 35, Heft 4, S. 351-367
ISSN: 1465-3958
International assistance, donor interests, and state capture in the Western Balkans
In: Journal of contemporary European studies, Band 29, Heft 2, S. 184-200
ISSN: 1478-2790
Obstacles to Evidence‐based Policy‐making in the EU Enlargement Countries: The Case of Skills Policies
In: Social policy and administration, Band 47, Heft 4, S. 451-467
ISSN: 1467-9515
AbstractThe global economic crisis has had a significant impact on the EU enlargement region by reducing inflows of external finance. Unemployment has increased in a context of already high long‐term and youth unemployment. As governments seek to restrict their budget deficits there will be little scope for much increase in government expenditure in the near future. These effects of the crisis highlight the need for better policy‐making in the region, drawing on better understanding of the causes of economic and social problems, better appreciation of the range of policy options and their relative chances of success or failure. However, there is a substantial knowledge gap that can only be filled by well‐designed research studies based on research questions that are relevant to the needs of policymakers. In this context, evidence‐based policy‐making techniques have a valuable role to play in improving the policy process. This article points out the specific nature of the policy process in transition countries and the difficulties of formulating rational policy during periods of rapid structural change in which the administrations have become politicized and state capture by big business interests is common. In addition, pervasive policy transfer, often of a coercive nature, is an additional constraint on rational policy‐making. The conflicting advice received from multiple donors and external advisers provides an incentive for playing the system and producing inconsistent policy formulas. The article concludes that there is significant scope for improvement in policy‐making through the use of evidence‐based policy‐making techniques. Governments should, therefore, encourage the use of systematic review and ex‐post evaluation of policy programmes and analysis of natural experiments where possible, while at the same time maintain a realistic awareness of the dangers and distorting effects of the influence of advocacy coalitions, state capture and partyisation of economies.
Obstacles to Evidence‐based Policy‐making in the EU Enlargement Countries: The Case of Skills Policies
In: Social policy & administration: an international journal of policy and research, Band 47, Heft 4, S. 451-467
ISSN: 0037-7643, 0144-5596
International Assistance Programmes and the Reform of Vocational Education in the Western Balkans: Sources of Policy Failure
In: Southeastern Europe: L' Europe du sud-est, Band 37, Heft 3, S. 330-348
ISSN: 1876-3332
Over the last twenty years, numerous international assistance programmes have aimed to provide support for reconstruction and assist the policy reform process in the Western Balkans. In this context, concerns have arisen that poor government policies and inadequate donor coordination have reduced the effectiveness of such assistance. The paper discusses the sources of policy success and policy failure of such international assistance programmes within a principal-agent framework that models the influence of misaligned objectives, differing incentive structures, asymmetric information and moral hazard facing the different actors in the institutional structure of assistance programmes. In this political economy approach the varying influences on multiple principals and agents are key determinants of the effectiveness of policy. The paper takes a sectoral view in examining assistance programmes in the vocational education sector, where large donor effort has been applied in the Western Balkans over the last decade to modernise and reform the education system. The specific focus is on secondary vocational education in Serbia. The paper identifies causes of policy failure in EU pre-accession assistance in this key policy area.
BUCHBESPRECHUNGEN: Chris Cviic
In: Südost-Europa: journal of politics and society, Band 59, Heft 2, S. 268-270
ISSN: 0722-480X
A Response to Carolyn Kadas and Ivan Rajic's Comments on Europe's Troubled Region: Economic development, institutional reform and social welfare in the Western Balkans
In: Southeastern Europe: L' Europe du sud-est, Band 34, Heft 2, S. 240-243
ISSN: 1876-3332
Regional integration and free-trade agreements in the Balkans: opportunities, obstacles and policy issues
In: Economic change & restructuring, Band 42, Heft 1-2, S. 25-46
ISSN: 1574-0277
THE EU APPROACH TO REGIONAL COOPERATION: POLICY SUCCESS OR POLICY FAILURE?
In: Southeastern Europe: L' Europe du sud-est, Band 32, Heft 1, S. xi-21
ISSN: 1876-3332
Abstract
Summary: This article analyzes the successes and failures of regional cooperation in the Western Balkans through the prism of two policy areas: trade policy and employment policy. It investigates the role of the Stability Pact as a policy broker in mediating the policy conflicts between various national and transnational advocacy coalitions in these two areas. It concludes that regional cooperation in the field of trade policy has been less contested than in the field of employment policy. However, there have been failures in each policy area. Regional cooperation in trade policy while ostensibly successful has threatened to widen economic gaps between countries in the region. Regional cooperation in employment policy has been contested and although levels of employment protection have been reduced, expenditure of active employment policies remains low and unemployment rates remain high especially in the less developed countries in the region.
Reviews
In: Economic and industrial democracy, Band 15, Heft 2, S. 296-298
ISSN: 1461-7099