Checks and balances outside the government: an introduction to the symposium

The symposium brings together case studies that are all about reasonably successful experiments in institution building and policy making by interactions between public and private spheres. The cases deal with the provision of information enabling market to perform, law making, and the control of po...

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Published in:Journal of Comparative Economics 2016-05, Vol.44 (2), p.400-403
Main Authors: Brousseau, Eric, Sgard, Jérome
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Civil law
Common law
Common vs. civil law
Economics and Finance
Humanities and Social Sciences
Institutional evolutions
Market infrastructure
Path dependency
Policy making
Political science
Private sector
Public bureaucracies
Public sector
Public vs. private governance
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Summary:The symposium brings together case studies that are all about reasonably successful experiments in institution building and policy making by interactions between public and private spheres. The cases deal with the provision of information enabling market to perform, law making, and the control of political discretion and public bureaus. Each in its own way, they show how agents have room for some reasoned choice, although eventually this room for choice is narrowed by the emergence of stabilized institutions that come to shape in a rather permanent way the environment within which they later operate. The common characteristic across these case studies is the non-Parliamentarian process through which process of experimentation, rationalization and institutionalization takes place.
ISSN:0147-5967
1095-7227
DOI:10.1016/j.jce.2015.12.005