How do governments determine policy priorities? Studying development strategies through spillover networks

How do Governments get Great?

Governments can play great roles in their countries, regions, and cities; facilitating or leading the resolution of festering problems and opening new pathways for progress. Examples are more numerous than one might imagine and raise an important question: How do governments get great? This paper identifies ten cases of great governments to answer four dimensions of this question: What kinds of...

How Elites Determine Development

The Role of Elites in Economic Development edited by Alice H Amsden, Alisa DiCaprio and James A Robinson (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press), 2012; pp xxii + 374, £58. T he Role of Elites in Economic Development is a volume of 15 essays edited by Alice H Amsden, Alisa DiCaprio and James A Robinson. This book grew out of a United Nations University conference held in Helsinki in the summer of ...

How Do We Meta-Govern Policy Networks in E-Government?

How do we determine atrial arrangement?

and his colleagues present a detailed and careful analysis of the arrangement of the heart and thoraco-abdominal organs in a large series of over one thousand autopsied patients.1 Their findings bear directly upon the controversy in which I was recently involved at the 3rd World Congress of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery. The controversy sessions took place on the last day of the Symp...

Why do Governments Privatize?

The role of township-owned enterprises in the rapid growth of the Chinese economy during reform is widely acknowledged. Beginning in the mid-1990s, however, these firms began to be privatized. Perhaps the most striking feature of this process is that it has not occurred uniformly across townships. This raises the simple question: When and why do government leaders privatize? Drawing on a unique...