Michael T Rock
Biographic Data
| ID | 1322375 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael T Rock |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael T |
| FAMILY NAME | Rock |
| SIGNATURE | ROCK M T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Winrock International (United States) |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 84 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Indonesia's centripetal democracy and economic growth
What has been the impact of democracy on growth in Indonesia? An early view emphasized a growth and investment slowdown, but more recent data suggest otherwise. What accounts for the reversion to New Order growth and investment rates? My answer is the adoption of more centripetal and developmental democratic institutions in an otherwise messy democracy that has pushed political parties and presidents to compete for votes by promising to clean up …
Dictators, Democrats, and Development in Southeast Asia
Since 1960 only nine developing countries have succeeded in sustaining high growth. Dictators, Democrats, and Development in Southeast Asia examines how dictators and democrats in three of the nine—Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand (IMT)—built and sustained pro-growth political coalitions, enabling them to deliver high sustained growth. The focus is on IMT because the three have factor endowments, ethnic heterogeneity, and forms of governance tha…
East Asia's Democratic Developmental States and Economic Growth
Political elites in East Asia have opted for a set of democratic institutions with a strong majoritarian bias that privilege efficiency and accountability over representativeness. Some have labeled these democracies “democratic developmental states.” Because the political architects of East Asia's democratic developmental states have met at least some of their objectives, it is time to ask, What has been the impact of the shift to majoritarianism…
What can Indonesia learn from China's industrial energy saving programs
Even though Indonesia's CO2 emissions are dominated by deforestation while China's are dominated by industry, Indonesia has much to learn from China's industrial energy saving programs. To begin with, it is only a matter of time before Indonesia's emissions from fossil fuels overtake those from deforestation. Given the long technological lock-in effects of energy systems and industries, Indonesia needs to think now about how it will tackle this p…
Corruption and Democracy
Most models and empirical tests of the relationship between corruption and democracy assume corruption falls as democracy matures. Yet recent theoretical developments and case evidence suggest an inverted U relationship between the two, although so far no one has tested for this relationship. By drawing on a panel data set covering a large number of countries between 1982–1997, substantial empirical support is found for an inverted U relationship…
Has Democracy Slowed Growth in Asia
Impact of Firm‐Based Environmental Standards on Subsidiaries and Their Suppliers
How successful are multinational corporations in extending their firm‐based environmental standards to their subsidiaries and those subsidiaries' local suppliers in their global production networks in developing countries? We address this question through an in‐depth case study of how Motorola, a prominent multinational electronics firm with an extensive global production network, is using a set of firm‐based standards to meet several new stringe…
Global Standards and the Environmental Performance of Industry
In this paper we examine the emergence of firm-based global environmental standards as an approach to managing the environmental performance of complex global production networks. Firm-based global environmental standards exist when a firm defines a uniform set of process and product environmental performance requirements that must be adhered to by all of a firm's facilities around the world, even if these firm-based standards exceed the requirem…
The Comparative Politics of Corruption
Asia's Clean Revolution
Integrating Environmental and Economic Policy Making in China and Taiwan
What, if anything, are two of East Asia's high-growth economies-China and Taiwan-doing to integrate environmental considerations into economic policy making? The two case studies developed here demonstrate that innovative officials in each have found ways to get powerful economic agencies to take environmental considerations into account. In China, national officials in the State Environmental Protection Administration and local officials in city…
The Dewatering of Economic Growth
Recent research has found an inverted U relationship between freshwater use and income after controlling for freshwater availability, the structure of the economy, and several policy variables. This suggests that the intensity of freshwater use must be declining with income growth. This hypothesis is tested by developing a simple, informal model of the determinants of freshwater‐use intensities across countries and over time. Results suggest that…
Industrial Ecology and Clean Development in East Asia
Rapid industry‐led growth in East Asia over the past three decades has resulted in deteriorating air and water quality, escalating energy use and attendant increases in greenhouse gas emissions, and other serious environmental concerns. Current efforts to strengthen environmental regulatory institutions are in many cases overridden by the scale effects of urban‐industrial growth. We examine policy approaches that support a shift toward an alterna…
What is Driving the Pollution Abatement Expenditure Behavior of Manufacturing Plants in Korea
Reassessing the Effectiveness of Industrial Policy in Indonesia
The stork, the plow, rural social structure and tropical deforestation in poor countries
Pollution intensity of GDP and trade policy
Transitional democracies and the shift to export-led industrialization
Twenty-five years of Economic Development” revisited
A cost analysis of computer instruction in Belize
The Comparative Politics of Corruption
Reassessing the Effectiveness of Industrial Policy in Indonesia
Integrating Environmental and Economic Policy Making in China and Taiwan
What, if anything, are two of East Asia's high-growth economies-China and Taiwan-doing to integrate environmental considerations into economic policy making? The two case studies developed here demonstrate that innovative officials in each have found ways to get powerful economic agencies to take environmental considerations into account. In China, national officials in the State Environmental Protection Administration and local officials in city…
Global Standards and the Environmental Performance of Industry
In this paper we examine the emergence of firm-based global environmental standards as an approach to managing the environmental performance of complex global production networks. Firm-based global environmental standards exist when a firm defines a uniform set of process and product environmental performance requirements that must be adhered to by all of a firm's facilities around the world, even if these firm-based standards exceed the requirem…
Pollution intensity of GDP and trade policy
East Asia's Democratic Developmental States and Economic Growth
Political elites in East Asia have opted for a set of democratic institutions with a strong majoritarian bias that privilege efficiency and accountability over representativeness. Some have labeled these democracies “democratic developmental states.” Because the political architects of East Asia's democratic developmental states have met at least some of their objectives, it is time to ask, What has been the impact of the shift to majoritarianism…
Has Democracy Slowed Growth in Asia
What is Driving the Pollution Abatement Expenditure Behavior of Manufacturing Plants in Korea
Twenty-five years of Economic Development” revisited
What can Indonesia learn from China's industrial energy saving programs
Even though Indonesia's CO2 emissions are dominated by deforestation while China's are dominated by industry, Indonesia has much to learn from China's industrial energy saving programs. To begin with, it is only a matter of time before Indonesia's emissions from fossil fuels overtake those from deforestation. Given the long technological lock-in effects of energy systems and industries, Indonesia needs to think now about how it will tackle this p…
A cost analysis of computer instruction in Belize
Twenty-five years of Economic Development” revisited
Transitional democracies and the shift to export-led industrialization
The stork, the plow, rural social structure and tropical deforestation in poor countries
Pollution intensity of GDP and trade policy
Industrial Ecology and Clean Development in East Asia
Rapid industry‐led growth in East Asia over the past three decades has resulted in deteriorating air and water quality, escalating energy use and attendant increases in greenhouse gas emissions, and other serious environmental concerns. Current efforts to strengthen environmental regulatory institutions are in many cases overridden by the scale effects of urban‐industrial growth. We examine policy approaches that support a shift toward an alterna…
What is Driving the Pollution Abatement Expenditure Behavior of Manufacturing Plants in Korea
Reassessing the Effectiveness of Industrial Policy in Indonesia
The Dewatering of Economic Growth
Recent research has found an inverted U relationship between freshwater use and income after controlling for freshwater availability, the structure of the economy, and several policy variables. This suggests that the intensity of freshwater use must be declining with income growth. This hypothesis is tested by developing a simple, informal model of the determinants of freshwater‐use intensities across countries and over time. Results suggest that…
Asia's Clean Revolution
Integrating Environmental and Economic Policy Making in China and Taiwan
What, if anything, are two of East Asia's high-growth economies-China and Taiwan-doing to integrate environmental considerations into economic policy making? The two case studies developed here demonstrate that innovative officials in each have found ways to get powerful economic agencies to take environmental considerations into account. In China, national officials in the State Environmental Protection Administration and local officials in city…
The Comparative Politics of Corruption
Global Standards and the Environmental Performance of Industry
In this paper we examine the emergence of firm-based global environmental standards as an approach to managing the environmental performance of complex global production networks. Firm-based global environmental standards exist when a firm defines a uniform set of process and product environmental performance requirements that must be adhered to by all of a firm's facilities around the world, even if these firm-based standards exceed the requirem…
Impact of Firm‐Based Environmental Standards on Subsidiaries and Their Suppliers
How successful are multinational corporations in extending their firm‐based environmental standards to their subsidiaries and those subsidiaries' local suppliers in their global production networks in developing countries? We address this question through an in‐depth case study of how Motorola, a prominent multinational electronics firm with an extensive global production network, is using a set of firm‐based standards to meet several new stringe…
Corruption and Democracy
Most models and empirical tests of the relationship between corruption and democracy assume corruption falls as democracy matures. Yet recent theoretical developments and case evidence suggest an inverted U relationship between the two, although so far no one has tested for this relationship. By drawing on a panel data set covering a large number of countries between 1982–1997, substantial empirical support is found for an inverted U relationship…
Has Democracy Slowed Growth in Asia
What can Indonesia learn from China's industrial energy saving programs
Even though Indonesia's CO2 emissions are dominated by deforestation while China's are dominated by industry, Indonesia has much to learn from China's industrial energy saving programs. To begin with, it is only a matter of time before Indonesia's emissions from fossil fuels overtake those from deforestation. Given the long technological lock-in effects of energy systems and industries, Indonesia needs to think now about how it will tackle this p…
East Asia's Democratic Developmental States and Economic Growth
Political elites in East Asia have opted for a set of democratic institutions with a strong majoritarian bias that privilege efficiency and accountability over representativeness. Some have labeled these democracies “democratic developmental states.” Because the political architects of East Asia's democratic developmental states have met at least some of their objectives, it is time to ask, What has been the impact of the shift to majoritarianism…
Dictators, Democrats, and Development in Southeast Asia
Since 1960 only nine developing countries have succeeded in sustaining high growth. Dictators, Democrats, and Development in Southeast Asia examines how dictators and democrats in three of the nine—Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand (IMT)—built and sustained pro-growth political coalitions, enabling them to deliver high sustained growth. The focus is on IMT because the three have factor endowments, ethnic heterogeneity, and forms of governance tha…
Indonesia's centripetal democracy and economic growth
What has been the impact of democracy on growth in Indonesia? An early view emphasized a growth and investment slowdown, but more recent data suggest otherwise. What accounts for the reversion to New Order growth and investment rates? My answer is the adoption of more centripetal and developmental democratic institutions in an otherwise messy democracy that has pushed political parties and presidents to compete for votes by promising to clean up …
Economics (20 works) · Political science (13 works) · Development economics (10 works) · Politics (9 works) · Business (8 works) · Economic growth (7 works) · Natural resource economics (7 works) · China (6 works) · Democracy (5 works) · Law (5 works)