Electricity Deregulation: Choices and Challenges
Author: James M Griffin
The electricity market has experienced enormous setbacks in delivering on the promise of deregulation. In theory, deregulating the electricity market would increase the efficiency of the industry by producing electricity at lower costs and passing those cost savings on to customers. However, deregulation poses substantial risks if the market is not designed properly, as the recent California crisis demonstrated. As Electricity Deregulation shows, successful deregulation is possible, although it is by no means a hands-off process—in fact, it requires a substantial amount of design and regulatory oversight. This collection brings together leading experts from academia, government, and big business to discuss the lessons learned from experiences such as California’s market meltdown as well as the ill-conceived policy choices that contribute to such failures. More importantly, the essays that comprise Electricity Deregulation offer a number of innovative prescriptions for the successful design of deregulated electricity markets. Written with economists and professionals associated with each of the network industries in mind, this comprehensive volume provides a timely and astute deliberation on the many risks and rewards of electricity deregulation.
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Developments in European Politics
Author: Paul M Heywood
This major new text brings together specially-commissioned chapters by leading authorities on European politics--East and West--to provide a systematic assessment of developments in political institutions and processes, politics and society, and policy set in the context of globalization, EU enlargement and Europe's changing role on the world stage. Carefully planned and edited by an international team of editors, it will, like its predecessor volumes on Developments in West European Politics, be essential reading for students and scholars.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Developments in European Politics--EditorsPART 1: THE EUROPEAN STATE - INTEGRATION & THE WORLD
Europe and the Global Challenge--E.Jones & M.Rhodes
International Politics & European States--F.Bicchi, K.Smith & R.Whitman
The EU Dimension in European Politics--T.Boerzel & U.Sedelmeier
PART 2: GOVERNMENT AND THE POLITICAL PROCESS
Power at the Centre: The Organization of Democratic Systems--K.Goetz
Political Parties; I.van Biezen & P.Mair
Elections and Representation--Gabor Tóka
Territorial Politics in Europe--M.Keating
PART 3: POLITICS AND SOCIETY
Political Scandals and Corruption--P.Heywood & I.Krastev
Anti-System Politics--C.Mudde
Organized Economic Interests: Diversity and Change in an Enlarged Europe--S.Avdagic & C.Crouch
The Judicialization of European Politics--Z.Kuhn
The State and Religion--J.Madeley
PART 4: CHALLENGES TO THE POLICY PROCESS
European Welfare States: Diversity, Challenges and Reforms--A.Hemerijck, M.Keune & M.Rhodes
Immigration and Asylum--V.Guiraudon & E.Jileva
Organised Crime and Anti-Crime Politics--L.Paoli & C.Fijnaut
Beyond Territoriality: European Security after the Cold War--R.A.Epstein & A.Cheeiu
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