Why do countries differ so much in the extent to which they adopt neoliberal, marketoriented
reform in their infrastructure industries? Building on world-society and neoinstitutional …

This article examines how internationalization affects domestic decisions about the reform of
market institutions. A developing literature argues that nations maintain different “varieties of …

We develop theory about the effect of domestic and global institutional forces across
countries and over time, following a national government's adoption of a globally diffusing …

What political conditions facilitate market-oriented reform? Prior research suggests that
neoliberal policies are inherently unpopular, politically hazardous, and consequently …

This article examines the political economy of privatization and liberalization in the
telecommunications sector in recent decades. We find that countries with stronger proreform …

Because events occur too fast and ideas mature too slowly for responses to be designed
anew for each pressing problem, policy innovation often relies on pre-existing models …

Many studies of privatisation and liberalisation in utility industries stress the importance of
national institutions for reform. However, powerful transnational forces and cross-national …

The era of privatization is also the era of regulation. This seems paradoxical since
privatization and the family of policies that were associated with it was supposed to lead to …

This article studies the diffusion of the main institutional feature of regulatory capitalism,
namely, independent regulatory agencies. While only a few such authorities existed in …

This paper reviews trends, outcomes and issues in regulatory reform in OECD countries.
First, it summarises the evidence on the evolution of regulatory environments and the …