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The Political Economy of Reform Failure 443.qxd 7/15/2006 11:46 AM Page 1 Batch number: 1 CHECKLIST (must be completed before press) (Please cross through any items that are not applicable) Front board: Spine: Back board: ❑ Title ❑ Title ❑ ISBN ❑ Subtitle ❑ Subtitle ❑ Barcode ❑ Author/edited by ❑ Author/edited by Edited by THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF REFORM FAILURE ❑ Series title ❑ Extra logo if required ❑ Extra logo if required The Political Economy General: ❑ Book size of Reform Failure ❑ Type fit on spine Mats Lundahl and Michael L.Mats Lundahl and Michael Wyzan CIRCULATED Date: SEEN BY DESK EDITOR: REVISE NEEDED Initial: Date: APPROVED FOR PRESS BY DESK EDITOR Initial: Date: Edited by Mats Lundahl and Michael L. Wyzan ,!7IA4BISBN 978-0-415-36244-3 Routledge studies in development economics www.routledge.com ï an informa business PC4 Royal Demy B-format Spine back edge The Political Economy of Reform Failure Economists have moved in recent years beyond analysing the manner in which the macroeconomies of different countries function and prescrib- ing appropriate policies for dealing with domestic and external imbal- ances. Increasingly, they have sought to understand the complex interaction between political and economic phenomena. The Political Economy of Reform Failure considers issues of economic reform in a broad range of settings: developed, transition and developing countries. Using country-specific cases this book focuses on those territo- ries which have encountered problems reforming, allowing the reader to gain an accurate understanding of the factors that inhibit the success of economic reform, the different context in which economic reform is attempted and the different challenges that individual countries face. The Political Economy of Reform Failure uses case studies which are often difficult to find such as Uzbekistan, Burma or Haiti. An international team of contributors including Bo Södersten, Deepak Lal and Ronald Findlay have been brought together to analyse these issues. Mats Lundahl is Professor of Development Economics at the Stockholm School of Economics. He has published widely on issues of development in Latin America, Africa and Asia. His most recent publications with Rout- ledge are Knut Wicksell on Poverty (2005), Peasants and Religion (2000) and New Directions in Development Economics (1996). Michael L. Wyzan, currently based in Lusaka, Zambia, is a senior consultant with BearingPoint, Inc. His 26-year career in comparative and development economics has included stints in academia, with amongst others, Illinois State University, the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis and Stockholm School of Economics. He also worked for the US Treasury Department in Bulgaria and the US Agency for International Development in Armenia and Eritrea. He received a Ph.D. degree in economics from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 1979. 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Wyzan First published 2005 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 270 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10016 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group © 2005 editorial matter and selection, Mats Lundahl and Michael L. Wyzan; individual chapters, their contributors Typeset in Baskerville by Wearset Ltd, Boldon, Tyne and Wear Printed and bound in Great Britain by MPG Books Ltd, Bodmin All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data A catalog record for this book has been requested ISBN 0-415-36244-X Contents Notes on contributors xii Acknowledgements xv 1 Introduction 1 MATS LUNDAHL AND MICHAEL L. WYZAN PART I Developed countries 23 2 Stable growth with slow and expensive adjustments: an essay on the old OECD countries using Denmark as an example 25 MARTIN PALDAM 3 Reform failure and poor economic performance: the case of Sweden 49 BO SÖDERSTEN 4 The role of European integration in the reform process: the Greek experience 70 SARANTIS E.G. LOLOS 5 The political economy of reform failure and macroeconomic mis-management: Turkey, 1980–2002 89 A. ERINÇ YELDAN AND SABIT KHAKIMZHANOV x Contents PART II Transition countries 115 6 On the political economy of transformation: reasons for success, causes of failure 117 JOZEF M. VAN BRABANT 7 A chequered history: political culture and conflict in Albanian
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