Networks and institutions in Europe's emerging markets /
"Do ties between political parties and businesses harm or benefit the development of market institutions? The post-communist transition offers an unparalleled opportunity to explore when and how networks linking the polity and the economy support the development of functional institutions. A qu...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2014.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in comparative politics.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "Do ties between political parties and businesses harm or benefit the development of market institutions? The post-communist transition offers an unparalleled opportunity to explore when and how networks linking the polity and the economy support the development of functional institutions. A quantitative and qualitative analysis covering eleven post-socialist countries combined with detailed case studies of Bulgaria, Poland and Romania documents how the most successful post-communist countries are those where dense networks link politicians and businesspeople, as long as politicians are constrained by intense political competition. The comparison of original network datasets shows how this combination allowed Poland to emerge with stable institutions. Bulgaria, marred by weak institutions, corruption and violence, cautions us that in developing economies intense political competition alone is harmful in the absence of dense personal and ownership networks. Indeed, as Romania illustrates, networks are so critical that their weakness is not mitigated even by low political competition"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 226 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 200-215) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781316008386 131600838X 9781139381628 1139381628 9781316003886 1316003884 1139990020 9781139990028 9781316502860 1316502864 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/CBO9781139381628 |