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The Law and Politics of Global Competition

Influence and Legitimacy in the International Competition Network

By: Christopher Townley,Mattia Guidi,Mariana Tavares

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The Law and Politics of Global Competition

Influence and Legitimacy in the International Competition Network

By: Christopher Townley,Mattia Guidi,Mariana Tavares

In its own words, the mission of the International Competition Network (the ICN) is to advocate the adoption of "superior standards and procedures in competition policy around the world, formulate proposals for procedural and substantive convergence, and seek to facilitate effective international cooperation to the benefit of member agencies, consumers and economies worldwide." ICN members include nearly all competition authorities (NCAs) from around the world (over 100 of them). Since its inception, the ICN has also sought to enrich its discussions and outputs through the inclusion of non-governmental advisors (NGAs), principally large multi-nationals and the legal and economic professions. The ICN is a transnational network, set up by its members, largely without wider state input. This book hypothesises that the ICN's formally neutral structures provide powerful influence mechanisms for strong NCAs and NGAs, over the weak; and 'competition experts' over wider state interests, discussing the legitimacy of this from a political and legal theory perspective, analysing the ICN's effectiveness and efficiency, and suggesting ways that the ICN can improve all three. This study has important implications for the ICN itself, particularly as it launches its 'Third Decade Project', billed as a full self-evaluation. However, the story told here is also relevant to states and the wider regulatory community, due to the widespread use of transnational networks.

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0192603612

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Wealth, Land, and Property in Angola

A History of Dispossession, Slavery, and Inequality

By: Mariana P. Candido

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Wealth, Land, and Property in Angola

A History of Dispossession, Slavery, and Inequality

By: Mariana P. Candido

Exploring the multifaceted history of dispossession, consumption, and inequality in West Central Africa, Mariana P. Candido presents a bold revisionist history of Angola from the sixteenth century until the Berlin Conference of 1884–5. Synthesising disparate strands of scholarship, including the histories of slavery, land tenure, and gender in West Central Africa, Candido makes a significant contribution to ongoing historical debates. She demonstrates how ideas about dominion and land rights eventually came to inform the appropriation and enslavement of free people and their labour. By centring the experiences of West Central Africans, and especially African women, this book challenges dominant historical narratives, and shows that securing property was a gendered process. Drawing attention to how archives obscure African forms of knowledge and normalize conquest, Candido interrogates simplistic interpretations of ownership and pushes for the decolonization of African history.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009059955

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An African Slaving Port and the Atlantic World

Benguela and its Hinterland

By: Mariana Candido

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An African Slaving Port and the Atlantic World

Benguela and its Hinterland

By: Mariana Candido

This book traces the history and development of the port of Benguela, the third largest port of slave embarkation on the coast of Africa, from the early seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth century. Benguela, located on the central coast of present-day Angola, was founded by the Portuguese in the early seventeenth century. In discussing the impact of the transatlantic slave trade on African societies, Mariana P. Candido explores the formation of new elites, the collapse of old states and the emergence of new states. Placing Benguela in an Atlantic perspective, this study shows how events in the Caribbean and Brazil affected social and political changes on the African coast. This book emphasizes the importance of the South Atlantic as a space for the circulation of people, ideas and crops.

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387

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1107328381

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9781107328389

Institutional Bypasses

A Strategy to Promote Reforms for Development

By: Mariana Mota Prado,Michael J. Trebilcock

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Institutional Bypasses

A Strategy to Promote Reforms for Development

By: Mariana Mota Prado,Michael J. Trebilcock

Institutional bypass is a reform strategy that creates alternative institutional regimes to give citizens a choice of service provider and create a form of competition between the dominant institution and the institutional bypass. While novel in the academic literature, the concept captures practices already being used in developing countries. In this illuminating book, Mariana Mota Prado and Michael J. Trebilcock explore the strengths and limits of this strategy with detailed case studies, showing how citizen preferences provide a benchmark against which future reform initiatives can be evaluated, and in this way change the dynamics of the reform process. While not a 'silver bullet' to the challenge of institutional reform, institutional bypasses add to the portfolio of strategies to promote development. This work should be read by development researchers, scholars, policymakers, and anyone else seeking options on how to promote change and implement reforms in developing countries around the world.

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1108619150

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The Law and Politics of Global Competition

Influence and Legitimacy in the International Competition Network

By: Christopher Townley,Mattia Guidi,Mariana Tavares

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The Law and Politics of Global Competition

Influence and Legitimacy in the International Competition Network

By: Christopher Townley,Mattia Guidi,Mariana Tavares

In its own words, the mission of the International Competition Network (the ICN) is to advocate the adoption of superior standards and procedures in competition policy around the world, formulate proposals for procedural and substantive convergence, and seek to facilitate effective international cooperation to the benefit of member agencies, consumers and economies worldwide. ICN members include nearly all competition authorities (NCAs) from around the world (over 100 of them). Since its inception, the ICN has also sought to enrich its discussions and outputs through the inclusion of non-governmental advisors (NGAs), principally large multi-nationals and the legal and economic professions. The ICN is a transnational network, set up by its members, largely without wider state input. This book hypothesises that the ICN's formally neutral structures provide powerful influence mechanisms for strong NCAs and NGAs, over the weak; and 'competition experts' over wider state interests, discussing the legitimacy of this from a political and legal theory perspective, analysing the ICN's effectiveness and efficiency, and suggesting ways that the ICN can improve all three. This study has important implications for the ICN itself, particularly as it launches its 'Third Decade Project', billed as a full self-evaluation. However, the story told here is also relevant to states and the wider regulatory community, due to the widespread use of transnational networks.

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Oxford University Press

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0198859783

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Book's by Mariana Tavares

The Law and Politics of Global Competition

The Law and Politics of Global Competition

Wealth, Land, and Property in Angola

Wealth, Land, and Property in Angola

An African Slaving Port and the Atlantic World

An African Slaving Port and the Atlantic World

Institutional Bypasses

Institutional Bypasses

The Law and Politics of Global Competition

The Law and Politics of Global Competition

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