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Power and global economic institutions /
"This book contends that existing approaches leave out key aspects of the relationship between economic power and formal political power in multilateral economic institutions. Importantly, while existing works focus on either power or institutions as distinct realms, we must examine their inter...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom :
Cambridge University Press,
2015.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; List of figures and tables; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; The methods and sources; Plan of the rest of the book; 2 Conceptualizing political asymmetries in multilateral economic institutions; The adjusted power approach; Conjunctural factors; Alternative factors?; Conclusions and roadmap for the empirical analysis; 3 The origins of states' formal equality in the global financial institutions; The origins of weighted voting in the IMF and the World Bank; IMF quotas and their adjustment over time; Conclusions.
- 4 The origins of states' voting equality in the post-war multilateral trading systemInter-state negotiations on states' voting equality; Explanations; Conclusions; 5 Shifts in political power in the IMF in 2008-2010; Prologue: contemporary cases; Introduction to changes in the IMF, 2008-2010; Background to the 2008-2010 shifts; Shifts in members' formal political power: descriptive analysis; Identifying the outcome: the relatively higher level of accommodation; Explaining the relatively higher level of accommodation; Alternative explanations; Conclusion: reforms and discontent.
- 6 Shifts in political power in the World Bank in 2008-2010Overview of the 2008-2010 shifts; Key outcome of the 2008-2010 shifts: limited accommodation; Explaining the outcome of limited accommodation; Alternative explanations; Conclusions; 7 The G20: a delegatory institution; The G20's institutional design; Explanations: G20 as an informal, delegatory institution; Alternative explanations; Conclusions; 8 Conclusions; Broad implications; Further explorations and future research; Implications of the book for global economic governance; Concluding thoughts; References; Index.