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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Public Choice Theory"”.
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Descriptio orbis terrarum : towards transfiguration
… thinking. It is argued here that the Public Choice theory has not provided sufficiently precise and advanced mathematical tools of understanding in its approach to Public Policy. Moreover, the Public Choice theory is often associated with neoconservatism. This association seems to be …
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A public choice analysis of developing constitutional review in contemporary China
… China. This dissertation uses the methodology of public choice theory to examine the feasibility of developing constitutional review in modern China.
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Centropoly: The Structure of Educational Failures in the U.S.
… its inflexible, layered, government-controlled public education system? Here, using public choice theory, I explain how near-sighted and unrelated reforms, often based in private motives, gave us what I call the public education centropoly – a hybrid government organization consisting of a set …
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The Financial Services Act : a case study in regulatory capture
… in this objective. Moreover, there exists, in public choice theory, an explanation for why regulation might fail in this way. The study investigates whether regulation did fail to achieve its official objectives, and if it did, what were the reasons for this failure? Does public choice provide …
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A political policy analysis of the integrated water resource management approach in South Africa’s water policy (1998 – 2001)
… water management areas (WMA)? The study uses the public choice theory to assess the IWRM approach in selected developed and developing countries. The applicability of public choice concepts with reference to the differences between Western and African cultures are briefly alluded to. It also …
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New Public Management in Charlotte, North Carolins: A Case Study of Managed Competition
The practice and study of public administration has long included questions of efficiency, effectiveness, and economy. In the literature of the last decade, the New Public Management (NPM) movement argues that government should be run like a business and that entrepreneurial-based techniques should …
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Mathematics Performance in Public and Catholic Elementary Schools: Explaining the Disparity
… job of educating the nation’s children than do public schools. Public Choice theorists in particular argue that public schools are inefficient and ineffective because they are accountable to bureaucracies, while private schools are superior because they are accountable to consumers and must …
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The Transition Mechanism of The Limited Access Order - The Emergence And Evolution of Institutions In Kenya
… social order in Kenya. This was motivated by the theory of new institutional economics, which views differences in institutions as fundamental in explaining differences in the level of economic development across countries. However, this theory often faces criticism in as far as it provides weak …
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The Irish adult education policy process since 1997: some lessons for the future
… rivalry which can be explained by public choice theory. Political failure was facilitated by Coalition Government which tends to encourage an incremental approach to policy making. In addition the Irish public policy system is complex, multi-layered and operates across different …
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Market Values in Education: A Case Study of its Effect on the Principal's Model for School Governance in Alberta
… large scale market forces such as parental choice and school competition onto educational systems in order to coerce school improvement. This shift may be prompting school-based administrators to shift school governance practices to reflect these market values. This shift, occurring in …
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Local Fiscal Sustainability within American Federalism
Unfunded public pension and Other Post Employment Benefits (OPEB) liabilities impose major threats to local fiscal sustainability, which increases governments' default risk and crowds out funding for essential local services. To close the funding gaps, localities may apply a wide range of fiscal …
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Instrument choice in environmental policy: a comparative study of pollution taxes and tradable pollution rights in British Columbia, Germany, and the United States
Current theories of instrument choice in environmental policy suggest that policy makers choose policy instruments based on the distribution of costs and benefits in society. It is postulated that policy makers will select those policy instruments which confer concentrated benefits on interest …
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The economic and environmental effects of local bus service deregulation in Britain
… “on the road”. This view is based on the public interest theory o f regulation, which assumes that market failures such as wasteful competition can be remedied by regulators acting to increase social welfare. But the public interest theory is not sufficient to provide an appropriate …
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Mismatched motives: the economic consequences of distorted incentives in the public sector
… overview to rent seeking in the context of Public Choice Theory. It contextualizes each of the four articles scientifically and highlights their relevance by discussing both (i) the societal costs associated with rent-seeking and (ii) the articles’ contributions to their respective academic …