Global Markets and Government Regulation in Telecommunications

Kirsten Rodine-Hardy (Northeastern University, Boston)

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Cambridge University Press
25 March 2013

International relations; Political economy; Media, information & communication industries; Postal & telecommunications industries

In recent years, liberalization, privatization and deregulation have become commonplace in sectors once dominated by government-owned monopolies. In telecommunications, for example, during the 1990s, more than 129 countries established independent regulatory agencies and more than 100 countries privatized the state-owned telecom operator. Why did so many countries liberalize in such a short period of time? For example, why did both Denmark and Burundi, nations different along so many relevant dimensions, liberalize their telecom sectors around the same time? Kirsten L. Rodine-Hardy argues that international organizations – not national governments or market forces – are the primary drivers of policy convergence in the important arena of telecommunications regulation: they create and shape preferences for reform and provide forums for expert discussions and the emergence of policy standards. Yet she also shows that international convergence leaves room for substantial variation among countries, using both econometric analysis and controlled case comparisons of eight European countries.

By: Kirsten Rodine-Hardy (Northeastern University Boston)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 222mm, Width: 143mm, Spine: 17mm
Weight: 370g
ISBN: 9781107022607
ISBN 10: 1107022606
Pages: 226
Publication Date: 25 March 2013
Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Undergraduate , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Understanding global regulatory reform in telecommunications – a paradigm shift; 2. Why change the rules? Explaining liberal telecom reform; 3. When and how do countries change the rules? Econometric analysis of the timing of establishing separate regulators and privatizing telecom incumbents; 4. Regulatory reform in central Europe – freer markets, European rules; 5. Northern European regulatory reform – liberal reform northern-style – 'regulation-lite'; 6. Conclusion: explaining change in a globalized world.

Kirsten Rodine-Hardy is an assistant professor of political science at Northeastern University, where she teaches international political economy, comparative politics and European politics. She completed her PhD in political science at the University of California, Berkeley, and spent two years at Harvard University on a pre-dissertation fellowship. She earned degrees from Brown University (AB honors and magna cum laude) and Georgetown University (MSFS in international trade and finance) and she studied at the Institut d'Études Politiques in Paris and at the ICPSR at Michigan University. She was a visiting assistant professor at Brown University in 2005 and 2006. She has received research support from the University of California's Institute for Cooperation and Conflict and the Berkeley Post-Soviet Studies Program, and she has consulted for the World Bank, the OECD and the European Union. She participates actively in the American Political Science Association, the Midwest Political Science Association and the International Studies Association. She is affiliated with Harvard University's Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies and the Northeastern University Center for Emerging Markets, based at the Northeastern School of Business.

Reviews for Global Markets and Government Regulation in Telecommunications

Many ask the question: What is the impact of politics and policy on the global flow of information? Kirsten Rodine-Hardy provides one of the most complete answers to this question to date. This volume is more than just case studies that clarify specific situations. It is a probing examination of the interplay between policy, institutions, and theory that both helps the reader to see the connections between them as well as to ponder the challenges scholars, policy makers, and citizens face in understanding them. - Ken Rogerson, Duke University Kirsten Rodine-Hardy provides a compelling and sophisticated understanding of global policy diffusion, which resulted in the liberalization of telecommunications sectors. The empirical evidence is excellent and brings in mixed methods approaches to explain the timing, scope, and comparative differences in telecommunications regulation and policies. The theoretical, empirical, and methodological claims in the book will persuade scholars to apply similar insights to other important political economy issues. - J. P. Singh, George Mason University