International Coercion, Emulation and Policy Diffusion: Market-Oriented Infrastructure Reforms, 1977-1999
dc.contributor.author | Henisz, Witold J. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Zelner, Bennet A. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Guillen, Mauro F. | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2006-08-01T15:53:12Z | |
dc.date.available | 2006-08-01T15:53:12Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2004-07-01 | en_US |
dc.identifier.other | RePEc:wdi:papers:2004-713 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/40099 | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | Why do some countries adopt market-oriented reforms such as deregulation, privatization and liberalization of competition in their infrastructure industries while others do not? Why did the pace of adoption accelerate in the 1990s? Building on neo-institutional theory in sociology, we argue that the domestic adoption of market-oriented reforms is strongly influenced by international pressures of coercion and emulation. We find robust support for these arguments with an event-history analysis of the determinants of reform in the telecommunications and electricity sectors of as many as 205 countries and territories between 1977 and 1999. Our results also suggest that the coercive effect of multilateral lending from the IMF, the World Bank or Regional Development Banks is increasing over time, a finding that is consistent with anecdotal evidence that multilateral organizations have broadened the scope of the “conditionality” terms specifying market-oriented reforms imposed on borrowing countries. We discuss the possibility that, by pressuring countries into policy reform, cross-national coercion and emulation may not produce ideal outcomes. | en_US |
dc.format.extent | 163749 bytes | |
dc.format.extent | 3151 bytes | |
dc.format.extent | 369781 bytes | |
dc.format.mimetype | text/plain | |
dc.format.mimetype | text/plain | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | 713 | en_US |
dc.subject | Privatization, Deregulation, Liberalization, Infrastructure, International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank, Multileral Institutions, Development, Reform, Globalization, Adoption, International | en_US |
dc.subject.other | O19, F02, F42, H11, L33, L96, L94, N70, P16, C41 | en_US |
dc.title | International Coercion, Emulation and Policy Diffusion: Market-Oriented Infrastructure Reforms, 1977-1999 | en_US |
dc.type | Working Paper | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Economics | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Business | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/40099/3/wp713.pdf | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | William Davidson Institute (WDI) - Working Papers |
Files in this item
Remediation of Harmful Language
The University of Michigan Library aims to describe library materials in a way that respects the people and communities who create, use, and are represented in our collections. Report harmful or offensive language in catalog records, finding aids, or elsewhere in our collections anonymously through our metadata feedback form. More information at Remediation of Harmful Language.
Accessibility
If you are unable to use this file in its current format, please select the Contact Us link and we can modify it to make it more accessible to you.