Pratap Bhanu Mehta, President of the Center for Policy Research in New Delhi, writes the lead commentary for the July issue of Governance (23.3). “Indian politics,” says Mehta in his July commentary, “has been undergoing two subtle but pronounced shifts that may have larger lessons for the politics of democratic accountability.” Mehta is the co-editor of The Oxford Companion to Politics in India (Oxford University Press, 2010); co-author of Public Institutions in India: Performance and Design (Oxford University Press, 2005); and author of The Burden of Democracy (Penguin Books, 2003).
Archive for March, 2010
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes Governance commentary
Published March 11, 2010 commentary ClosedTags: accountability, corruption, India, responsiveness
From the Governance archives: What shapes national responses to changes in global capital markets?
Published March 6, 2010 Ten years ago ClosedTags: capital markets, corporate finance, corporate governance, globalization
Ten years ago in Governance (13.2, April 2000), Richard Deeg and Sofia Perez examined the effect of growing capital mobility on the character of corporate finance and corporate governance in major European states. Deeg and Perez challenged the widespread view that liberalization of capital markets would lead to convergence in national policies, arguing that domestic institutional arrangements, and incentives facing state elites, play a critical role in determining each nation’s response. Read more.
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Published March 31, 2010 commentary ClosedTags: Asia, financial crisis, neoliberalism
“There is no doubt that the great global financial and economic crisis of 2008-2009 had a profound impact on Asian policymakers,” says Mahbubani. “The first real result of this crisis is the loss of any lingering faith that Asian policymakers may have had with the Reagan-Thatcher revolution in governance and economic philosophy.” Read more.