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Export Processing Zones
Also known as free trade zones, export processing zones (EPZs) are industrial areas within a country designed to encourage the establishment of a labor-intensive export manufacturing sector. Firms that locate in EPZs depend on a high proportion of imported inputs that ...
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- HIV/AIDS
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- Import Substitution Industrialization
- Millennium Development Goals
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- Institutionalism
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- Collaborative Governance
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- Frame Analysis
- Governability
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- Incrementalism
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- Public Administration
- Accountability
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- Agency
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- Citizen-Centric Government
- Civil Service
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- Governance
- Indigenous Governance
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- Politics-Administration Dichotomy
- Pooled Sovereignty
- Public Administration
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- Quango
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- Regulatory State
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- Contracting Out
- Cost-Benefit Analysis
- Forecasting
- Good Governance
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- Government by Proxy
- Internal Market
- Joint Venture
- Liberalization
- Marketization
- New Public Management
- Overload
- Performance Measurement
- Privatization
- Program Evaluation
- Public Administration
- Public Sector
- Public-Private Partnership
- Purchaser-Provider Split
- Quasi-Market
- Service Delivery
- Service Provider
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- Steering
- Welfare Reform
- Workfare
- Rational Choice Theory
- Bounded Rationality
- Bureau Shaping
- Collective Action
- Cost-Benefit Analysis
- Equilibrium Theory
- Externalities
- Free Riding
- Game Theory
- Governance
- Governance Failure
- Impossibility Theorem
- Market Failure
- New Public Management
- Optimal Decision Making
- Overload
- Pareto Optimality
- Political Business Cycle
- Positive Political Theory
- Prisoner's Dilemma
- Public Choice Theory
- Public Goods
- Rational Choice Theory
- Rationality
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- Rent Seeking
- Revealed Preference
- Satisficing Behavior
- Social Choice
- State Capture
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- Regionalism
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- Mercosur
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- North Atlantic Treaty Organization
- North-South Regionalism
- Open and Closed Regionalism
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
- Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
- Organization of African Unity, The
- Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries
- Pacific Islands Forum
- Regional Development Bank
- Regional Governance
- Regionalism
- South East Asia Treaty Organization
- Southern African Development Community
- Transgovernmentalism
- Transnational Governance
- Transnational Social Movement
- Transnationalism
- Triadization
- Security
- Arms Control
- Confidence-Building Measure
- Conflict Mediation
- Crisis Management
- Deterrence
- Emergency Powers
- Human Security
- Humanitarian Intervention
- Military Necessity
- Military Occupation
- Multilateralism
- North Atlantic Treaty Organization
- Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
- Peace Process
- Post-9/11
- Private Military Companies
- Sanctions
- Second-Track Diplomacy
- Security
- Security Community
- Terrorism
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- Society
- Anarchy
- Citizenship
- Civic Virtue
- Civil Society
- Clientelism
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- Ethnic Groups
- Global Civil Society
- Individualism
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- Nation
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- Neighborhood Association
- Neotraditionalism
- Network Society
- Nongovernmental Organization
- Nonprofit Organization
- Participation
- Pluralism
- Political Communication
- Public Opinion
- Public Sphere
- Risk Society
- Social Capital
- Social Market
- Social Movement Theory
- Social Practice
- Third Sector
- Tradition
- Transnational Social Movement
- Virtual Community
- Sociology of Governance
- Authority
- Autopoiesis
- Civil Society
- Communication
- Communicative Action
- Cooperation
- Economic Sociology
- Embeddedness
- Generalized Exchange
- Governmentality
- Legitimacy
- Network
- Norms
- Organization Theory
- Patrimonialism
- Power
- Rationalization
- Reciprocity
- Reflexivity
- Social Capital
- Social Constructivism
- Social Movement Theory
- Social Network Theory
- Sociocybernetics
- Sociology of Governance
- Space
- State
- State Building
- State-Society Relations
- Trust
- Welfare State
- Theories of Governance
- Communitarianism
- Decentered Theory
- Feminist Theory
- Functionalism
- Governance
- Governmentality
- Institutionalism
- Interpretive Theory
- Marxism
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- New Institutionalism
- Organization Theory
- Pragmatism
- Rational Choice Theory
- Realism and Neorealism
- Regime Theory
- Regulation Theory
- Social Constructivism
- Systems Theory
- Trade
- Cairns Group
- Corporate Codes of Conduct
- European Free Trade Association
- European Union
- Free Trade Area of the Americas
- Liberalization
- Marketization
- Mercantilism
- Most-Favored Nation Principle
- Multilateralism
- Neocolonialism
- Neoliberalism
- New Regionalism
- Protectionism
- Reciprocity
- Rules of Origin
- Sanctions
- Trade Agreements
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