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State-business alliances and economic development

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This book argues that a key dynamic behind economic development in the emerging markets is the coordination between the state and businesses. Exploring the links between institutions, state--business alliances and economic development in the context of tumultuous market transitions since the 1980s, the book tackles the formation and sustainability of coordination-inducing institutions besides their mere existence, and points out the new modalities of coordination in the age of new developmentalism. Based on extensive original research in Turkey and Mexico embedded in a comparative historical a

Title State-business alliances and economic development : Turkey, Mexico and North Africa / Isik Ozel.
Edition 1st ed.
Publisher New York, N.Y. : Routledge
Creation Date 2015
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English
Content Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of figures
List of tables
List of abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Why Mexico and Turkey? A case for the cases
Model, data, and methods
The plan of the book
1 Market transitions, business, and the state in emerging countries
Adjusting in coordination: actors and institutions
Formation and evolution of institutions: coordination between state and business
2 Diverging pioneers: trajectories of Mexico and Turkey in the first phases of market transitions
Antecedents of market reforms and reform alliances: the ISI pact, crises and the responsesZigzagging reforms and shaky alliances in Turkey
Concessions and emergence of a narrow alliance in Mexico
Conclusion
3 Increasing fragmentation and weak coordination in Turkey
Turkish business: increasing fragmentation in the first phase of market transitions
The Turkish state: fragmentation and de-institutionalization
4 Increasing cohesiveness and coordination in Mexico in the first phase of the transitions
Gradual emergence of business cohesiveness
Increasing state cohesiveness in the first phase of transitionsIncreasing coordination through cohesive actors
5 Tamed by crises, eager to build institutions: the second phase of market transitions in Mexico and Turkey
The rise of a regulatory state in Mexico?
The rise of a regulatory state in Turkey?
Resilient, but vulnerable: Turkish and Mexican economies encountering the 2008 crisis
6 Increasing cohesiveness and a big spurt in Turkey
Becoming cohesive with a twist: polar cohesiveness in the making
Rising state cohesion: increasing capacity and institution buildingIncreasing coordination between the state and business
7 Increasing fragmentation, institutional change, and slowdown in the second phase of transitions in Mexico
Increasing fragmentation within business
Diminishing state cohesiveness
Ad hoc coordination in the second phase of the transitions: lobbying vs. concertation
8 Market transitions and state-business alliances in selected MENA countries
State-business relations at the juncture of transitions in MENA
Fragmentation, cronyism, and hesitant opening: the case of EgyptIncreasing cohesion and coordination: the case of Morocco
Increasing fragmentation and repression: the case of Tunisia
9 Concluding remarks
Institutions, transitions, and challenges ahead
Material incentives and value systems
Lessons for MENA countries
Appendix: list of interviewees
Bibliography
Index
Series Routledge Political Economy of the Middle East and North Africa Series
13
Extent 1 online resource (257 p.)
Language English
National Library system number 997012410339805171
MARC RECORDS

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