http://www.scribd.com/people/view/108819-rorourke This a feed for documents on Scribd written by rorourke 30 Thu, 18 Oct 2007 16:57:56 GMT Thu, 18 Oct 2007 16:57:56 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/404695/Faguet-2004 Journal of Public Economics 88 (2004) 867 – 893 www.elsevier.com/locate/econbase Does decentralization increase government responsiveness to local needs? Evidence from Bolivia Jean-Paul Faguet Centre for Economic Performance and Development Studies Institute, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE, UK Received 22 March 2001; received in revised form 8 August 2002; accepted 14 August 2002 Abstract This paper examines whether decentralization increases the responsiveness of public investment to local needs using a unique database from Bolivia. Empirical tests show that Thu, 18 Oct 2007 16:57:56 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/404695/Faguet-2004 http://www.scribd.com/doc/404650/Moran-Ch-1-summary Moran, M. (2003) The British Regulatory State (Oxford: OUP), chapter 1 J N 3 1 8 M 8 2 ( C C ) Week 1 Further Reading: “Chapter 1. Introduction: From Stagnation to Hyper-Innovation” By Carmel Jorgensen Ch1 set out the key arguments and summaries chapter arguments. Thesis: “This book is about the contrast between the two epochs” of British government. “For about the first two-thirds of the twentieth century [to 1970], British Victorian culture ‘club government’ ruled and “slumbered in the historical equivalent of a long Sunday afternoon. .. Since then, [early 1970s to 1990s] h Thu, 18 Oct 2007 16:11:47 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/404650/Moran-Ch-1-summary http://www.scribd.com/doc/404631/Class-outline-20078 GY444 Class programme for session 2007-8 GY444: Environmental Assessment Class programme Course manager Dr Simon Dietz E-mail: s.dietz@lse.ac.uk Office hours in Michaelmas Term: Wednesdays 1100-1230 in Room S414 Outline The class programme will focus on environmental auditing and environmental management systems, increasingly used by individual organisations from a variety of sectors to measure and manage their environmental and sustainability performance. In particular, you will gain practical experience in implementing an environmental management system at LSE – you will actively take par Thu, 18 Oct 2007 16:02:16 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/404631/Class-outline-20078 http://www.scribd.com/doc/404628/GY423-Reading-List-Assignments article hunter Kathy Kathy Tim Tim Cecelia Cecelia Diane Diane Suzanne Suzanne Isla Isla Vijay Vijay Bipasha Bipasha Christoph Christoph Sanober Sanober Guilia Guilia Amisha Amisha Sarah Sarah Nadia Nadia Brandon Brandon Katee Richard Stefan Joana Leonardo Olivier Tuuli Marianne week 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 4 4 4 4 4 4 5 5 5 5 5 6 6 6 7 7 7 7 8 8 8 8 9 9 10 10 10 10 sem/lec L L L L L L S S S S L L L S S S L L L L L L L L L L L S L L L L L L L L L L article Kahn, J. R. (2005). The Economic Approach to Environmental and Natura Costanza, R., et al. (eds). (1997). An Introduction to Ecological Econ Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:58:39 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/404628/GY423-Reading-List-Assignments http://www.scribd.com/doc/404593/GY-420-Reading-List-ALL GY 420 ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION: IMPLEMENTING POLICY Full Reading Checklist S = Seminar Reading L = Lecture Reading No. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 Week Title 3/4 3/4 3/4 3/4 3/4 3/4 3/4 3/4 3/4 3/4 3/4 4 4 4 4 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 Andersen (1994) Andersen & Sprenger (2000) Connelly & Smith (2003) chapter 6 Fiorino (1999) Gouldson & Murphy (1998) chapters 4, 5 & 6 Grabosky (1995), Keohane et al (1998) Majone (1976; 1990) Prakash and Kolman (2004 – E) T Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:29:33 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/404593/GY-420-Reading-List-ALL http://www.scribd.com/doc/404574/GY420GY465-Outline-20078 GY 420 ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION: IMPLEMENTING POLICY (Full unit) GY465 CONCEPTS IN ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION (Michaelmas Term half unit) Course Manager: Dr Michael Mason (S510) Other teachers: Professor Judith Rees (S503), Dr Richard Perkins (S413)Mr James Van Alstine (S509), Dr Mark Zeitoun (V901) Availability GY420 is a compulsory course for all MSc Environmental Policy and Regulation students. It is also available to be taken by students on other MSc programmes in accordance with the relevant programme regulations, both as a full unit and as a Michaelmas Term half unit, GY465. Aims and Objec Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:13:42 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/404574/GY420GY465-Outline-20078 http://www.scribd.com/doc/397627/Escaping-the-Resource-Curse-article Escaping the Resource Curse A message for us all Richard O’Rourke, ASPO Ireland, October 2007 Macartan Humphries Assist. Prof. of Political Science, Columbia University, New York Jeffrey Sachs Director, Earth Institute, Columbia University, New York Joseph Stiglitz Professor, Columbia University, New York Nobel Prize winning economist, Joseph Stieglitz, Head of the UN Millennium Project, Jeffrey Sachs, and fellow Irishman, Macartan Humphries, recently edited a collection of papers dealing with the peculiar phenomenon: the resource curse, observed in resource rich (oil specifically) developi Mon, 15 Oct 2007 00:45:20 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/397627/Escaping-the-Resource-Curse-article