Preemptive Modernization and the Politics of Sectoral Defense: Adjustment to Globalization in the Portuguese Pharmacy Sector

Evans, Ana Maria

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“…In others, it involves the gradual acceptance of practices that would not formerly have been seen as congruent with the formal institution. In comparison with overt efforts to revise or abolish that institution, the process of reinterpretation shifts the existing practices in piecemeal fashion from below (Aoki, 2001;Evans, 2005;Streeck and Thelen, 2005).…”

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Institutional change in varieties of capitalism

Hall

Thelen

2008

Socio-Economic Review

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Contemporary approaches to varieties to capitalism are often criticized for neglecting issues of institutional change. This paper develops an approach to institutional change more extended than the one provided in Hall and Soskice (in Varieties of Capitalism: The Institutional Foundations of Comparative Advantage, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2001) but congruent with its varieties-ofcapitalism perspective. It begins by outlining an approach to institutional stability, which suggests that the persistence of institutions depends not only on their aggregate welfare effects but also on the distributive benefits that they provide to the underlying social or political coalitions; and not only on the Paretooptimal quality of such equilibria but also on continuous processes of mobilization through which the actors test the limits of the existing institutions. It then develops an analysis of institutional change that emphasizes the ways in which defection, reinterpretation and reform emerge out of such contestation and assesses the accuracy of this account against recent developments in the political economies of Europe. The paper concludes by outlining the implications of this perspective for contemporary analyses of liberalization in the political economy.

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Section: Institutional Change and The Politics Of Coordinationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Institutional change in varieties of capitalism

Hall

Thelen

2008

Socio-Economic Review

655

397

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“…Although V. Chibber (2002), Lai Si Tsui-Auch (2004a), and A. Evans (2005) examine the role of the state in jump-starting innovation, they fail to explain why these state-led initiatives often fail to evolve into thriving hubs of self-sustaining innovative activity. Public financing may initiate innovative activity, but our argument is that such endeavors will face difficulties over the long run as a result of the conflicting institutional incentives found in the broader economy.…”

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Institutional (Dis)Incentives to Innovate: An Explanation for Singapore's Innovation Gap

Carney¹,

Zheng²

2009

Journal of East Asian Studies

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Despite having the fifth highest per capita GDP in the world (according to IMF PPP statistics for 2007), and despite numerous government efforts to spur innovation, Singapore has faced difficulties in establishing a durable base of entrepreneurial activity. Many ascribe this failure to the city-state's policies, which are often portrayed as generating a culture of risk aversion and a lack of creativity. In contrast to this conventional view, this article argues that the citystate's institutional arrangements generate conflicting innovation incentives and ultimately undermine innovative activity. Statistical tests across twentythree countries offer evidence that is consistent with this argument.

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