Download or read book The Politics of Redress written by Peter Keppy and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the aftermath of World War II in Asia as described in a sobering and insightful history of two types of redress: compensation for material war damage and restitution of looted property. Japanese Army units and citizens stole goods while shelling and bombardment by all sides destroyed factories, offices and residential neighbourhoods. How were these cases of material damage and loss to be rectified, and who was to rectify them? What financial means and legal precedents were there to fall back on at a time of decolonization, independence struggle, and shifting alliances on the brink of the Cold War? The politics of redress makes an important contribution to the study of law and society in Southeast Asia. It lays bare the complex web of interconnections between politics, law and economy from a comparative historical perspective.
Download or read book Politics of Compensation written by Alexandra Diana Kaiser and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Executive Compensation Where Economic Policy and Politics Collide written by Martin D. Andelman and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American business executives have been transformed into the country's political pinata. And we all know what the problem is: executives make too much money.Fascinating. In a country where teenage basketball stars receive $90 million for wearing a certain brand of sneakers, the people who lead the largest companies on the planet make too much money. OK, fine. So how much should we allow them to make comrade?The fact is that we, as a country, are simply hopping mad. We're mad because we bet and we lost. We bought into the bubble and were all planning on retiring at 55. It popped, we lost and now we're mad. Somebody get a rope.We try to employ fiscal policy to fuel recovery, so we lower interest rates. But, if at the same time we lower rates in an effort to reduce the risk to business, we increase the socioeconomic risk of mistakes and failure, we negate the potential impact of those lower rates.Our markets don't cycle . . . we do. And, if we want our economy and our 401(k) plan balances to return to their glory days, we have to stop attacking the only people capable of driving economic growth.Our free market means that some will abuse that freedom and make off with undeserved millions. But we cannot allow the acts of the few to harm the interests of the many in this, the greatest success story that is the United States of America.
Download or read book The Politics of State Workers Compensation Policies in the United States of America written by Scott David Szymendera and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book How Policy Shapes Politics written by Jeb Barnes and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comparing judicialized and bureaucratized injury compensation policies, Jeb Barnes and Thomas F. Burke conclude that litigation divides interests between victims and villains and winners and losers, and so creates a comparatively fractious, chaotic politics.
Download or read book Symbolic Politics and the Regulation of Executive Compensation written by Sandra L. Suarez and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When politicians feel popular pressure to act, but are unwilling or unable to address the root cause of the problem, they resort to symbolic policymaking. In this paper, I examine excessive executive compensation as an issue that rose to the top of the political agenda during both the Great Depression and the Great Recession. Presidential candidates, members of Congress, the media, and the public alike blamed corporate greed for the economic downturn. In both instances, however, enacted legislation stopped short of changing the way in which executive pay was determined or placing effective, enforceable limits on it. I analyze the nature of the democratic process and contend that public policy scholars need to pay more attention to the occurrence of symbolic policies. The category of symbolic policies offers a more accurate approach to understanding the politics of executive compensation in the US during the two crises and helps explain why, in spite of the recent legislative efforts, it continues to rise.
Download or read book Motivation and Politics in Executive Compensation written by Gerardo R. Ungson and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the past thirty years, economists and management theorists have empirically investigated the compensation of top executives. An issue that has received critical attention is what appears to be a weak link between top executive compensation and executive performance. In contrast to rational models that have characterized most previous studies, this paper develops a political perspective to explain why the linkage between rewards and performance is weak. Implications for research and management practice are presented. (Author).
Download or read book Circles of Compensation written by Kent E. Calder and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japan grew explosively and consistently for more than a century, from the Meiji Restoration until the collapse of the economic bubble in the early 1990s. Since then, it has been unable to restart its economic engine and respond to globalization. How could the same political–economic system produce such strongly contrasting outcomes? This book identifies the crucial variables as classic Japanese forms of socio-political organization: the "circles of compensation." These cooperative groupings of economic, political, and bureaucratic interests dictate corporate and individual responses to such critical issues as investment and innovation; at the micro level, they explain why individuals can be decidedly cautious on their own, yet prone to risk-taking as a collective. Kent E. Calder examines how these circles operate in seven concrete areas, from food supply to consumer electronics, and deals in special detail with the influence of Japan's changing financial system. The result is a comprehensive overview of Japan's circles of compensation as they stand today, and a road map for broadening them in the future.
Download or read book The Politics of Compensation Under Trade written by Irene Menendez González and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Politics of Compensation Under Trade written by Irene Menendez González and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Case Studies on Managing Government Compensation and Employment Institutions Policies and Reform Challenges written by International Monetary Fund and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2016-12-04 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This supplement presents country case studies reviewing country experiences with managing wage bill pressures, which are the basis for the compensation and employment reform lessons identified in the main paper. The selection of countries for the case studies reflects past studies carried out by either the IMF or the World Bank in the context of technical assistance or bilateral surveillance (Table 1). These studies provide important insights into the different sources of wage bill pressures as well as the reform challenges governments have faced when addressing these pressures over the short and medium term. The studies cover 20 countries, including five advanced economies, six countries from sub-Saharan Africa, two countries in developing Asia, one country in the Middle East and North Africa, three countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, and three countries in Central and Eastern Europe and the CIS. The structure of each case study is similar, with each study starting with a presentation of the institutional coverage and framework for setting and managing the wage bill; a description of employment and compensation levels, including their comparison with the private sector; and a discussion of the challenges that motivated the need for reforms and, when applicable, the reforms implemented and lessons derived from these.
Download or read book Victims of the System written by Robert Elias and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important new book on criminology is a major attempt to evaluate actual victim compensation programs as well as their political and economic contexts, through the eyes of the victims themselves.Elias traces the experiences of violent-crime victims throughout the entire criminal justice process, comparing New York's and New Jersey's victim compensation programs. He shows how programs differ when compensation is viewed essentially as welfare and when it is viewed as a right. The study uses extensive interviews with officials and with violent crime victims.The study indicates victim compensation programs largely fail to achieve their stated goals of improving attitudes toward the criminal-justice system and the government. The programs produce poor attitudes toward government and criminal justice.
Download or read book Crisis and Compensation written by Kent E. Calder and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of nonindustrial domestic policies in post-war Japan.
Download or read book New Strategies for Public Pay written by Howard Risher and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 1997-05-22 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The government has acknowledged that its program of compensation and rewards is a roadblock in its movements to reinvent government operations. In its report, From Red Tape to Results: Creating a Government That Works Better and Costs Less, the National Performance Review recommends that government agencies design their own compensation programs to help improve operations. In New Strategies for Public Pay, leading experts examine current civil service compensation systems; analyze proposals for reform; discuss issues of equity and fairness, merit pay, collective bargaining, labor market influences, and more; and offer viable compensation alternatives, which have proven to work in private industry, to current government pay systems.
Download or read book Handling the Biggest Losers written by Daniel P. Aldrich and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conventional theories about compensation to losers posit that assistance to groups adversely affected by entrepreneurial politics remains static within regimes and across sectors. In contrast, this paper hypothesizes that assistance to those adversely affected by policies depends on characteristics both of the loser group and the political regime. Rather than finding blanket redistribution, as many have argued, the strength of the affected group and its legitimacy with decision makers create variation in the amount of compensation. While some scholars have sought to predict outcomes at the national level, this paper draws on both ideational and interest-based methodologies to create a nuanced view from the sectoral and case level. Using cases of market-opening liberalization and the siting of often unwanted projects in India, France, and the United States, this paper sets forth a new approach to the political economy of compensation.
Download or read book The Politics of Compensation Under Trade Opennes Economic Geography and Spending written by Irene Menéndez González and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Against the Profit Motive written by Nicholas R. Parrillo and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In America today, a public official's lawful income consists of a salary. But until a century ago, the law frequently authorized officials to make money on a profit-seeking basis. Prosecutors won a fee for each defendant convicted. Tax collectors received a cut of each evasion uncovered. Naval officers took a reward for each ship sunk. The list goes on. This book is the first to document American government's "for-profit" past, to discover how profit-seeking defined officials' relationship to the citizenry, and to explain how lawmakers-by banishing the profit motive in favor of the salary-transformed that relationship forever.
