The political economy of reform
Subtitle: lessons from pensions, product markets and labour markets in ten OECD countries
By: by William Tompson in collaboration with Robert Price.
Contributors: Price, Robert W. R.; Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Publisher: OECD
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Paris
Language: eng
Number of pages: 497
ISBN-13: 9789264073067
Subjects: Structural adjustment (Economic policy) -- OECD countries -- Case studies; Economic stabilization -- OECD countries; OECD countries -- Economic policy; OECD countries -- Economic policy -- Case studies
Genres: Case studies
Other titles: L'economie politique de la reforme.
Description: This report examines why some policy reforms get implemented and others languish by examining 20 structural reform efforts in 10 OECD countries over the past two decades. The case studies cover a wide variety of reform attempts in three key areas: pensions, labour- and product-market regulation. Key factors in the political, economic and reform-specific arenas are identified as helping or hindering reform, and these findings are cross-checked using a relatively simple set of Spearman rank correlations. The report’s two-pronged analytical approach – quantitative and qualitative – results in unique insights for policy makers designing, adopting and implementing structural policy reforms.
Notes: Also available in French under the title: L'economie politique de la reforme : systemes de retraite et marches du travail et des produits dans dix pays de l'OCDE.

Includes bibliographical references.