Public priority setting : rules and costs / edited by Peter B. Boorsma, Kees Aarts, and Albert E. Steenge.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Boorsma, P. B.

Aarts, Kees.

Steenge, Albert E. (Albert Eelke), 1943-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Policy sciences--Decision making--Case studies.

Policy sciences.

Policy sciences--Decision making.

Physical Description:

xii, 338 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic, [1997]

Contents:

2 Transaction Cost Economics and Public Administration / Oliver E. Williamson 19

2.1.1 The New Institutional Economics 19

2.1.2 Transaction Cost Economics 20

2.2 The Rational Spirit 21

2.2.1 Hard-headed Behavioral Assumptions 22

2.2.2 Farsighted Contractual 23

2.2.3 Microanalytics 24

2.3 From Property/Legal Centralism to Contract/Private Ordening 25

2.3.1 Property/Contract 25

2.3.2 Legal Centralism/Private Ordening 26

2.4 From Ideal to Actual 27

2.5 From Insurance Hazards to Contractual Hazards 28

2.6 Applications to Public Administration 30

2.6.1 Rational Spirit 31

2.6.2 Comparative Contracting 31

2.6.3 Remediableness 32

2.6.4 Hazards 32

3 Setting Priorities: The IMF and World Bank and Structural Adjustment Programmes / Niels Hermes, Ard Schilder 39

3.2 Backgrounds, Contents and Outcomes of SAPs 40

3.3 Agency Theory and SAPs 43

3.4 The Political Economy of Policy Change 47

3.4.1 A Simple Political Economy Model 47

3.4.2 Costs and Benefits of SAPs 49

3.5 Evaluation of Why SAPs Failed 53

3.6 How Can the BWIs React to the Implementation Problems of SAPs? 56

4 The Effects of Firm- and Relations-specific Characteristics on Quality of Supplier Relationships / Gjalt de Jong, Bart Nooteboom, Robert W. Vossen 61

4.2 Theoretical Perspectives 63

4.3 Hypotheses 64

4.3.1 Firm-specific Characteristics 65

4.3.2 Relation-specific Characteristics 68

4.4 Data and Results 69

4.4.1 Data 69

4.4.2 Results: Factor Analyses 70

4.4.3 Regression Results for the US Automobile Industry 74

Appendix A Data and Measurements 81

5 Marshall and the Quest for a New Paradigm / Piet de Vries 85

5.2 Varying the Data 87

5.3 Economics as a Unified Theory 92

5.4 The New Paradigm Quest 93

5.5 Restricting the Problem 96

6 Technology and Lifestyle as Central Concepts for Global Scenarios / Faye Duchin 103

6.1 Development and Environment 103

6.2 Lifestyle and Technology as Organizing Concepts 104

6.3 Models of Growth and Contraction 106

6.4 Technology, Natural Resource Accounting, and Material Balances 107

6.5 Lifestyle, Social Accounting Matrices, and a New Household Classification 110

6.6 Scenarios about Technology and Lifestyle 114

7 On Background Principles for Environmental Policy: "Polluter Pays", "User Pays" or "Victim Pays"? / Albert E. Steenge 121

7.2 Pollution, Polluters and Economic Indecomposability 123

7.3 Direct Pollution 127

7.4 An Array of Background Principles 129

7.5 Interconnections 131

7.6 Background Principles Revisited 133

8 Reconciling Economy with Ecology: Environmental Valuation from the Point of View of Sustainability / Martin O'Connor 139

8.2 Economy, Environment, and Valuation Practices 140

8.3 Valuation Framed in Terms of (Strong) Sustainability 143

8.4 Biophysical Sustenance and Cultural Vitality: the Case of Forest Pockets 146

8.5 Valuing Water Recources for Sustainability: Critical Natural Capital 151

9 Contingent Valuation, Sustainability and a Green National Income / Anne van der Veen 163

9.2 Welfare and Greened National Income 165

9.3 Contingent Valuation: a Monetary Estimator of Natural Capital? 166

9.4 Validity and Reliability 170

9.4.1 Reliability 171

9.4.2 Validity 171

9.4.3 CV Analysis and Validity and Reliability 172

9.5 Contingent Valuation, Sustainability and Green National Income 174

9.6 Outlook 176

10 The Effects of Policy Making on the Design of Economic Policy Instruments: Politics as Usual / Hans Th.A. Bressers, Dave Huitema 181

10.2 Policy Making: Politics, as Usual 183

10.3 The Design of Economic Instruments in Practice 185

10.4 Theory Development about the Choice of Economic Policy Instrumtents 191

11 Setting Priorities in Dutch Legislative Policy / Barbel Dorbeck-Jung 201

11.2 The Concept of Regulation 202

11.2.1 Regulation and Governance 202

11.3 Regulation, Law and Legislation 206

11.3.1 Deficiencies of the Hierarchic Instrumental Approach 206

11.3.2 Responsive Law and Legislation 207

11.4 Legitimacy of Governmental Action 209

11.4.1 Legitimacy as a Concept 209

11.4.2 Basic Values, Principles and Standards 209

11.4.3 Legitimacy and Legislative Priorities 210

11.5 The Legitimacy of Dutch Higher Education Quality Evaluation Regulations 211

11.5.1 Regulation Strategies 211

11.5.2 Formal and Informal Rules Regarding Quality Evaluation 212

11.5.3 Aspects of Legitimacy 213

11.5.4 Advantages and Shortcomings 214

12 Do Local Authorities Opt for Covenants? / Eric Helder 217

12.1 Introduction: Covenants between Government Regulation and Self Regulation 217

12.1.1 Covenants: Unknown but not Unloved 217

12.1.2 A Contribution to Self Regulation 219

12.1.3 Covenants: for Local Authorities too? 220

12.1.4 Further Treatment 221

12.2 Recommended: the Covenant 222

12.2.2 Agreement 222

12.2.3 "Whatever they are called" 223

12.2.4 Powers under Public Law 224

12.2.5 Realisation of Government Policy 224

12.2.6 In Writing 224

12.3 Recommendations on Covenants: Something for Local Authorities? 225

12.3.1 Are Local Authorities Bound? 225

12.3.2 When do Local Authorities Choose the Covenant? 226

12.3.3 Recommendations on Content 228

12.3.4 Procedural Directions 230

12.4 An Illustration: Agreements on Gaming Machines 231

12.4.1 Gaming Machine Covenants as an Example 231

12.4.2 The Application of Gaming Machine Covenants 231

12.4.3 Why no Administrative Rules? 234

12.5 Conclusion: on Added Value 234

13 Communicative Steering and Regulation: Shifting Actors, Objectives and Priorities / Igno Propper 239

13.2 Theoretical Possibilities and Limitations of Communicative Steering 241

13.2.1 Possibilities 241

13.2.2 Limitations and Risks 243

13.3 The Video Covenant: Protection of Young People against Harmful Videos 246

13.3.1 Regulation or Self-regulation? 246

13.3.2 The Covenants 247

13.3.3 Asessment of the Possibilities and Limitations of Communicative Steering 249

14 Political-Administrative Relations and Separation of Powers / Rik Reussing 257

14.1 Introduction: Scale and Legitimacy of Local Government 257

14.2 Problems of the Local Constitutional System 258

14.2.1 Internal Problems of the Local Constitutional System 259

14.2.2 External Problems of the Local Constitutional System 263

14.2.3 General Problems of the Local Constitutional System 264

14.3 Possible Solutions to the Observed Problems 265

14.3.1 Develoments in the Present Constitutional System 265

14.3.2 Less Radical Changes of the Local Constitutional System 268

14.3.3 More Radical Changes of the Local Constitutional System 271

14.4 Conclusion: a 'fourth Power' in Government Setting Priorities 273

15 Effects of Issue Priorities in the News on Voting Preferences; the 1994 Election Campaign in the Netherlands / Jan Kleinnijenhuis, Jan A. de Ridder 275

15.2 The Political Context of the 1994 Elections in the Netherlands 276

15.3 Issue News and its Expected Effects on Voting Preferences 279

15.4 Data, Operationalization and Method 287

15.5 Results 294

16 The Will of Politicians and the Unwillingness of the People / Jacques J.A. Thomassen 307

16.2 Differences of Opinion between Electors and the Elected 308

16.3 Evaluation of Differences 308

16.4 Political Parties and Political Representation 309

16.5 The Explanation for Differences of Opinion between Electors and the Elected 312

16.6 The Function of Elections in the Netherlands 314

16.7 Referendum and Participation 318.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0792348230

OCLC:

37652594