Institutional design
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Institutional design
(Recent economic thought)
Kluwer Academic Publishers, c1995
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  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Policy scientists have long been concerned with understanding the basic tools, or instruments, that governments can use to accomplish their goals. The initial interest in inductively developing comprehensive lists of generic instruments for policy analysis soon gave way to efforts to discover more parsimonious, but still useful, specifications of the elementary components out of which instruments can be assembled. Moving from a generic instrument to a fully specified policy alternative, however, requires the designer to go much beyond the elementary components. Rather than directly specifying some of these details, the designer may instead set the rules by which they will be specified. The creation of these specifications and rules can be thought of as institutional design. This book helps scholars and policy analysts formulate more effective policy alternatives by a better understanding of institutional design.
The feasibility and effectiveness of policies depend on the political, economic, and social contexts in which they are embedded. These contexts provide an environment of existing institutions that offer opportunities and barriers to institutional design. A fundamental understanding of institutional design requires theories of institutions and institutional change. With a resurgence of interest in institutions in recent years, there are many possible sources of theory. The contributors to this volume draw from the variety of sources to identify implications for understanding institutional design.
Table of Contents
- Preface. 1. Institutional Design: Overview
- D.L. Weimer. 2. The Design of Institutions: an Agency Theory Perspective
- J.S. Banks. 3. Caveat emptor: Institutions, Contracts, and Commodity Exchanges in Russia
- T. Frye. 4. Rational Choice Theory of Institutions: Implications for Design
- R.L. Calvert. 5. Conventions and Norms in Institutional Design
- P. Croskery. 6. Institutions for the Settlement of Trade Disputes: the Case of the Canada--United States Free Trade Agreement
- K.B. Woodside. 7. The Two Traditions of Institutional Designing: Dialogue versus Decision? S.H. Linder, B.G. Peters. 8. Policy Networks and Governance
- J.A. de Bruijn, E.F. ten Heuvelhof. Index.
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