1st Edition
Co-Ordination in Context Institutional Choices to Promote Exports
By G.P.E. Walzenbach
Copyright 1998
309 Pages
by
Routledge
310 Pages
by
Routledge
309 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 1998. This book makes an original contribution to our understanding of policy failures at the European and international level. On the basis of a comparative analysis the study shows how the co-ordination mechanisms available in the European Community and OECD have complicated the regulation of national policies on state aid to exporting industries. This failure can be explained... Read more
Part 1: Theoretical Foundations 1. Welfare and Institutional Design 2. Co-operation, Co-ordination and Integration Part 2: Empirical Interest Structures 3. Britain: Export Promotion and Levelling the Playing Field 4. France: Export Promotion and Libéralisme Organisé 5. Germany: Export Promotion and Ordnungspolitik Part 3: European and International Institutions 6. Institutional Choice in the European Community 7. Institutional Choice in the OECD Part 4: Conclusion 8. The Possibility of Reform
Biography
G.P.E. Walzenbach, Nuffield College, Oxford, UK.
’All true believers in the beneficence of international and supranational organizations as well as their officials should read this challenging study. The story of OECD and EU efforts to coordinate national export-promoting policies suggests international bureaucracies may sometimes be the problem, not the solution.’ Susan Strange, University of Warwick, UK
