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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"State-Business Relations"”.
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Turkey’s State-Business Relations Revisited: Islamic Business Associations and Policymaking in the AKP era
… process since the 1990s. Muslim businesses’ curious relationship with the secular Turkish state and traditional business elites presents a compelling case for interest group theory. This dissertation evaluates the interest group theories’ propositions on policy-based interaction …
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State-business relations and economic transition in the modern world-system: a comparative study of South Africa and Zimbabwe
This thesis examines state-business relations (SBRs) in semi-peripheral South Africa and peripheral Zimbabwe following each country’s transition to majority rule. This study offers an explanation for why SBRs are likely to either consolidate or fracture in post-transition communities over time …
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Business and the state in Malawi:the politics of institutional formation, maintenance and change
… institutional and organisational evolution of state-business relations in Malawi, from the colonial period (1891-1963) to the first decade of multiparty democracy (1994-2004), through the period of one-party authoritarianism (1964-1993). It contributes to three areas of political science. …
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Not about rules, but about good deals: The political economy of securing inclusive capital investment and transformation in South African mining
… net positive directions with good deals between business and the state, and local communities. The research thus contributes to the literature on property rights and investment, state-business relations and development, and natural resource governance for development.
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Economic statecraft with Chinese characteristics : the use of commercial actors in China's grand strategy
This study is about Chinese economic statecraft: what it is, how it works and why it is more or less effective. The study builds a theory of economic statecraft that provides an explanation of how states use firms to pursue their strategic goals. This theoretical construct begins with an …
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Participatory autocracy : private entrepreneurs, legislatures, and property protection in China
… to support the argument. First, to understand state-business relations in China, I conducted 106 in-depth interviews with private entrepreneurs, government officials, and local scholars in five provinces during 16 months of fieldwork. I show that even while government expropriation is an …