Business and the State in Developing Countries / / ed. by Sylvia Maxfield, Ben Ross Schneider.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• MitwirkendeR: Biddle, Jesse,; Doner, Richard F.,; Durand, Francisco,; Evans, Peter,; Fields, Karl,; Haggard, Stephan,; Maxfield, Sylvia,; Milor, Vedat,; Ramsay, Ansil,; Schneider, Ben Ross,; Shafer, Michael,; Silva, Eduardo,; Thorp, Rosemary,
• HerausgeberIn: Maxfield, Sylvia,; Schneider, Ben Ross,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©1997
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Cornell Studies in Political Economy
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (368 p.) :; 1 chart/graph; 3 tables

Much of the debate about development in the past decade pitted proponents of unfettered markets against advocates of developmental states. Yet, in many developing countries what best explains variations in economic performance is not markets or states but rather the character of relations between business and government. The studies in Business and the State in Developing Countries identify a range of close, collaborative relations between bureaucrats and capitalists that enhance elements of economic performance and defy conventional expectations that such relations lead ineluctably to rent-seeking, corruption, and collusion. All based on extensive field research, the essays contrast collaborative and collusive relations in a wide range of developing countries, mostly in Latin America and Asia, and isolate the conditions under which collaboration is most likely to emerge and survive. The contributors highlight the crucial roles played by capable bureaucracies and strong business associations.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- Part I: Concepts And Arguments -- 1. Business, the State, and Economic Performance in Developing Countries -- 2. Theories of Business and Business-State Relations -- Part II: Business Organization, Firm Structure, And Strong States -- 3. State Structures, Government-Business Relations, and Economic Transformation -- 4. The Political Economy of Sectors and Sectoral Change: Korea Then and Now -- 5. Strong States and Business Organization in Korea and Taiwan -- 6. Business Elites, the State, and Economic Change in Chile -- Part III: Collective Business Action And Weak States -- 7. Big Business and the Politics of Economic Reform: Confidence and Concertation in Brazil and Mexico -- 8. A Historical View of Business-State Relations: Colombia, Peru, and Venezuela Compared -- 9. Competitive Clientelism and Economic Governance: The Case of Thailand -- 10. Economic Governance in Turkey: Bureaucratic Capacity, Policy Networks, and Business Associations -- References -- Index