Policy Diffusion and Telecommunications Regulation

Disentangles the major actors in the telecommunications sector and identifies their potentially conflicting economic and political interests
Uncovers governmental strategies of policy-making in the telecommunications sector, including decisions of regional governments to develop policies
Examines changes in regional trends and specifically the rise of Southern countries as regulatory weights in the telecommunications sector

Autorentext
Véronique Wavre is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the School of Economics and Politics (SEPS), University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. She previously worked at the College of Social Sciences and International Studies (SSIS), University of Exeter, UK. She researches telecommunications policies and state control in the Middle East and Africa.

Inhalt
Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Conditions and mechanisms of policy diffusion.- Chapter 3: Measuring policy diffusion.- Chapter 4: Country and sector cases selection.- Chapter 5: Regulatory actors in MENA telecommunications.- Chapter 6: Egypt.- Chapter 7: Morocco.- Chapter 8: Jordan.- Chapter 9: Observation and Conditions of diffusion in comparative perspective.- Chapter 10: Mechanisms of diffusion and telecommunications trends.- Chapter 11: Conclusion.