Efstathios demetriades3, kavala institute of technology abstract this study investigates the merger effects of two banks. Schmitter 1,2 1emeritus professor, european university institute, florence, italy 2recurring visiting professor, central european university, budapest, hungary the future of comparative politics is in doubt. The conitemporary disenchantment with and philosophical. Publication date 1896 topics social sciences, politics, forms of political organization. The effect of mergers and acquisitions on the performance. Before we can begin making these comparisons, we need to understand the basic unit of comparative political study. States as political power publisher macmillan and company limited. This course introduces you to comparative politics, one of the four subfields in political science. Six guiding principles for antitrust agencies new and old address by william j. The role of leadership in mergers and acquisitions. An introduction to the main theoretical and conceptual issues in the field of comparative politics. This book is intended to be an accessible text on the strategies of comparative research in political science. Vertical mergers often lead to lower prices because of the elimination of double marginalisation when there is market power up and downstream pre.
To view the pdf you will need acrobat reader, which may be downloaded from the adobe site. Merger control 2006 published by global legal group with contributions from. Introduction merger regulation in australia and the european union eu has been constructed on the building blocks of united states us antitrust theory. Procedural framework us merger control in the us, responsibility for merger control is shared between the ftc and doj. Mergers and the market for corporate control henry g. It offers students a broad view of the selected themes, concepts and approaches that characterize the field, as well as an appreciation of how the field has evolved over time. The article provides a critical overview of the most important elements of eu competition policy reforms and presents a comparative analysis between eu and u. Kolasky deputy assistant attorney general antitrust division u. Pdf comparative governments and politics is one of the most exciting and dynamic fields in political science. The discussion about the future of comparative politics is appealing to methodologists also because quantitative methods, as a research field, is.
Willig department of justice merger analysis, industrial organization theory, and merger guidelines the leadership of the antitrust division of the u. Pdf schmitter advocates that the future of comparative politics should be about. Scholars who study comparative politics, and all scholars for that matter, are. It is aimed at upperlevel undergraduate and firstyear postgraduate students taking courses or doing degrees in political science, comparative politics, area studies european politics, russian and postcommunist politics, latin american politics, third world politics, african. The merger took place in mid 1999s and the effect was the alpha bank. The state and its challenges robert hislope and anthony mughan frontmatter more information list of tables 1. E x e c u t i v e s u m m a r y m e r g e r s a s a s t r a t e g y f o r s u c c e s 2 in 88 percent of the mergers, participants felt that the postmerger organization was better off. Why is it so difficult to combine sovereignty with r2p responsibility. The two disciplines are both products of the same period, the late nineteenth century, when they were formed as the fruit of the rising positivist legal scholarship. Comparative politics is the study of politics within political systems. After years of discussion, the antimonopoly law of the peoples republic of china was promulgated in august 2007 and entered into force a year later.
Limits of comparative political analysis neera chandhoke the general loss of all certainties has in partictular posed problems for comparative political analvsis which is based on grand theories and categories of understanding. Comparative analysis of mergers and acquisitions in the. The field therefore encompasses a diverse array of topics, from competing forms of democracy to the nature of economic development. International journal of economics, commerce and management, united kingdom licensed under creative common page 187. Pdf comparative politics in the 21th century researchgate. Foundations of comparative politics, second edition. The current paper does not dispute that approaches from comparative government can bring added value to the study of the eu. A fundamental premise underlying the market for corporate control is the exist ence of a high positive correlation be.
Riikka mirja sarala paulina junni, riikka mirja sarala 2014, the role of leadership in mergers and acquisitions. In the discipline of comparative politics, we explore how and why nations change, how and why governments compare to governments in different parts of the world, and patterns and irregularities among political systems. Pdf the future of comparative politics is its past researchgate. Comparative analysis of merger control policy lessons. Now, this thoroughly revised second edition offers students an even better guide to crossnational comparison and why it matters. Department of justice presented at the international bar association conference on competition law and policy in a global context cape town, south africa march. Click on document comparative government and politics. Welcome to the eighth edition of the international comparative legal guide to.
Among these features are the type of political regime. The author concentrates on mergers and acquisitions value creation issue in the region. This book takes a comparative perspective in investigating to what extent competition goals may influence merger policy by focusing on four major issues. Principles of comparative politics 2nd editiondownload. After thirteen years of discussion, on 30 august 2007, the antimonopoly law of the peoples republic of china aml was promulgated by the 29th session of the 10th standing committee of chinas national peoples congress, and this law came into force on 1 august 2008. In the first week we shall discuss what political features we shall be trying to explain. Pdf doing comparative politics ch 2 lecture timothy. Merger control 2007 published by global legal group with contributions from. Research designs are recommended which combine the comparative. The nature and future of comparative politics philippe c. Kenneth newton is emeritus professor of comparative politics at the university. Lessons for china european studies in law and economics jingyuan ma on. A merger, consolidation or amalgamation, in a political or administrative sense, is the combination of two or more political or administrative entities, such as municipalities in other words cities, towns, etc.
In so doing, they offer an important methodological insight. Theories of comparative politics department of political. This guide provides corporate counsel and international practitioners with a comprehensive worldwide legal analysis of the laws and regulations of merger control. They provided some useful insights but did not acknowledge that this is just one of many. Elizabeth xiaoru wang, principal, charles river associates, with practical law antitrust, with special thanks to dr. Many textbooks on comparative politics provide a clear, seemingly simple answer to the question, what is comparative politics. This article argues that legal history and comparative law ought to merge into one discipline. Event study methodology is employed to investigate the scientific problem of value generation as a consequence of analysed transactions.
In doing so, comparative politics has come of age, becoming a key contributor to. He defines political system as a system concerned with the authoritative allocation of values in the society. Merger control 2008 published by global legal group with contributions from. This term is used when the process occurs within a sovereign entity. Doing comparative politics lynne rienner publishers. Already established as the leading text in the field, the third edition of comparative government and politics is comprehensively revised and substantially rewritten to cover the collapse of communism, the extension of democracy in the second and third worlds, and the growing internationalisation of political and economic life. Japan local politics subnational politics municipal mergers. Mergers and acquisitions in the new member states of european union eu10 are investigated in the study. Our comparative examination focuses on the general procedural framework, the types of remedies required, and speci. Unbalanced growth or outward expansion of one neighbor may. A practical insight to crossborder merger control issues uk the international comparative legal guide to. To rule, dictators have to combine some degree of repression with the construction. First, in order to understand why competition law and policy in china incorporates a multitude of policy goals, the legislative history of the antimonopoly law and merger policy is explored. The effect of mergers and acquisitions on the performance of companies the greek case of ionikilaiki bank and pisteos bank dimitrios maditinos1.
David eastons view david easton deals with politics in explicit systemic terms. The groundbreaking first edition of principles of comparative politics offered the most comprehensive and uptodate view of the rich world of comparative inquiry, research and scholarship. Merger control 2010 published by global legal group with contributions from. Introduction in 2010 a raft of articles offered contrasting views on analytic tools for assessing unilateral effects from differentiated products mergers. Merger of smithkline beecham and glaxo wellcome, the two largest uk pharmaceutical companies is a good example in parallel with above definition, where smithkline beecham and. Political challenges and changing agendas 8th edition. Economic tools for evaluating competitive harm in horizontal mergers dr. Pdf the subject matter of comparative politics is fundamentally in flux due to changing. Find all the books, read about the author, and more.
Nor is its intention to suggest that comparisons between the eu and nation states perform no useful function quite the contrary. A brief overview of the ways in which power has been treated in management and organization studies is provided. It seeks to describe and explain various features of politics in different countries. Merger analysis, industrial organization theory, and. Under special circumstances created by a government decision to partly merge and. The natureand future of comparative politics philippe c. Rather, it argues that, in order to gain a full understanding of the european union, observers must be conscious.
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