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Author | : Stanislav Markus |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2015-02-05 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1316195643 |
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What threatens the property rights of business owners? And what makes these rights secure? This book transcends the conventional diagnosis of the issue in modern developing countries by moving beyond expropriation by the state ruler or by petty bureaucratic corruption. It identifies 'agent predation' as a novel threat type, showing it to be particularly widespread and detrimental. The book also questions the orthodox prescription: institutionalized state commitment cannot secure property rights against agent predation. Instead, this volume argues that business actors can hold the predatory state agents accountable through firm-level alliances with foreign actors, labor, and local communities. Beyond securing ownership, such alliances promote rule of law in a rent-seeking society. Taking Russia and Ukraine between 2000 and 2012 as its empirical focus, the book advances these arguments by drawing on more than 150 qualitative interviews with business owners, policy makers, and bureaucrats, as well as an original large-N survey of firms.
Author | : Stanislav Markus |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 15 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : |
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What threatens the property rights of business owners? And what makes these rights secure? This book transcends the conventional diagnosis of the issue in modern developing countries by moving beyond expropriation by the state ruler or by petty bureaucratic corruption. It identifies 'agent predation' as a novel threat type, showing it to be particularly widespread and detrimental. The book also questions the orthodox prescription: institutionalized state commitment cannot secure property rights against agent predation. Instead, this volume argues that business actors can hold the predatory state agents accountable through firm-level alliances with foreign actors, labor, and local communities. Beyond securing ownership, such alliances promote rule of law in a rent-seeking society. Taking Russia and Ukraine between 2000 and 2012 as its empirical focus, the book advances these arguments by drawing on more than 150 qualitative interviews with business owners, policy makers, and bureaucrats, as well as an original large-N survey of firms.* Winner of the 2016 Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research by the International Social Science Council and the European Consortium for Political Research.
Author | : Paul T. Babie |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 6 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Download Review Essay Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
What is property? It is neither what it may first appear nor what we are first told it might be. Let me explain. What property first appears to be is a means of allocating goods and resources. Typically, philosophers and other social and legal theorists begin by saying that property is a system whereby scarce resources -- usually everything that people can either see or imagine -- are allocated amongst individuals (individuals can be natural -- you and me; and legal -- corporations). It is often difficult to work out how a system of property achieves the initial allocation of a particular good or resource. For that reason, those who acquire a good or resource on that initial allocation are sometimes said to have won the lottery of enjoying the resource. Joseph William Singer calls this initial allocation of a resource a “magic moment” (Singer 172; drawing on Nozick 151-64), aptly capturing the mystical and mystifying way in which the law allows some to end up as “haves” while others, usually a large majority, end up as “have nots.”
Author | : Oguzhan C. Dincer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Economic development |
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Download Predation, Protection and Accumulation Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Nadya Hajj |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2016-12-13 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0231542925 |
Download Protection Amid Chaos Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The right to own property is something we generally take for granted. For refugees living in camps, in some cases for as long as generations, the link between citizenship and property ownership becomes strained. How do refugees protect these assets and preserve communal ties? How do they maintain a sense of identity and belonging within chaotic settings? Protection Amid Chaos follows people as they develop binding claims on assets and resources in challenging political and economic spaces. Focusing on Palestinians living in refugee camps in Lebanon and Jordan, it shows how the first to arrive developed flexible though legitimate property rights claims based on legal knowledge retained from their homeland, subsequently adapted to the restrictions of refugee life. As camps increased in complexity, refugees merged their informal institutions with the formal rules of political outsiders, devising a broader, stronger system for protecting their assets and culture from predation and state incorporation. For this book, Nadya Hajj conducted interviews with two hundred refugees. She consults memoirs, legal documents, and findings in the United Nations Relief Works Agency archives. Her work reveals the strategies Palestinian refugees have used to navigate their precarious conditions while under continuous assault and situates their struggle within the larger context of communities living in transitional spaces.
Author | : Bálint Magyar |
Publisher | : Central European University Press |
Total Pages | : 834 |
Release | : 2021-02-20 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9633863708 |
Download The Anatomy of Post-Communist Regimes Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Offering a single, coherent framework of the political, economic, and social phenomena that characterize post-communist regimes, this is the most comprehensive work on the subject to date. Focusing on Central Europe, the post-Soviet countries and China, the study provides a systematic mapping of possible post-communist trajectories. At exploring the structural foundations of post-communist regime development, the work discusses the types of state, with an emphasis on informality and patronalism; the variety of actors in the political, economic, and communal spheres; the ways autocrats neutralize media, elections, etc. The analysis embraces the color revolutions of civil resistance (as in Georgia and in Ukraine) and the defensive mechanisms of democracy and autocracy; the evolution of corruption and the workings of “relational economy”; an analysis of China as “market-exploiting dictatorship”; the sociology of “clientage society”; and the instrumental use of ideology, with an emphasis on populism. Beyond a cataloguing of phenomena—actors, institutions, and dynamics of post-communist democracies, autocracies, and dictatorships—Magyar and Madlovics also conceptualize everything as building blocks to a larger, coherent structure: a new language for post-communist regimes. While being the most definitive book on the topic, the book is nevertheless written in an accessible style suitable for both beginners who wish to understand the logic of post-communism and scholars who are interested in original contributions to comparative regime theory. The book is equipped with QR codes that link to www.postcommunistregimes.com, which contains interactive, 3D supplementary material for teaching.
Author | : Stanislav Markus |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 4 |
Release | : 2018 |
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Download Property, Predation, and Informal Governance Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Successful governance implies that organizations, networks, or practices create public or club goods by constraining behavior, sharing information, or providing resources. While effective governance may require a functional state, compelling studies have theorized informal governance without Leviathan's backing in a vast number of domains, so much so that few exceptions exist in which the state is deemed an absolute sine qua non. One such exception is the security of private property rights. The consensus on the impossibility of informal property rights' protection partly derives from our ruler-centric concept of the state as a powerful sovereign, first vividly conceptualized in analytic narratives based on medieval Europe. The conventional diagnosis of top-down ruler-sanctioned predation generates the key prescription for sovereigns aiming to increase tax revenue and investment: institutional commitment constraining the upper executive. I offer an alternative perspective on PR security and informal governance. I conceptualize and empirically validate four ideal types of state threats to private property, and show that informal governance is a viable solution to a particularly pernicious - but understudied - threat type.
Author | : Avinash K. Dixit |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 181 |
Release | : 2007-05-13 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0691130345 |
Download Lawlessness and Economics Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
How can property rights be protected and contracts be enforced in countries where the rule of law is ineffective or absent? How can firms from advanced market economies do business in such circumstances? In Lawlessness and Economics, Avinash Dixit examines the theory of private institutions that transcend or supplement weak economic governance from the state. In much of the world and through much of history, private mechanisms--such as long-term relationships, arbitration, social networks to disseminate information and norms to impose sanctions, and for-profit enforcement services--have grown up in place of formal, state-governed institutions. Even in countries with strong legal systems, many of these mechanisms continue under the shadow of the law. Numerous case studies and empirical investigations have demonstrated the variety, importance, and merits, and drawbacks of such institutions. This book builds on these studies and constructs a toolkit of theoretical models to analyze them. The models shed new conceptual light on the different modes of governance, and deepen our understanding of the interaction of the alternative institutions with each other and with the government's law. For example, one model explains the limit on the size of social networks and illuminates problems in the transition to more formal legal systems as economies grow beyond this limit. Other models explain why for-profit enforcement is inefficient. The models also help us understand why state law dovetails with some non-state institutions and collides with others. This can help less-developed countries and transition economies devise better processes for the introduction or reform of their formal legal systems.
Author | : Claude Ménard |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 875 |
Release | : 2008-06-27 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 354069305X |
Download Handbook of New Institutional Economics Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
New Institutional Economics (NIE) has skyrocketed in scope and influence over the last three decades. This first Handbook of NIE provides a unique and timely overview of recent developments and broad orientations. Contributions analyse the domain and perspectives of NIE; sections on legal institutions, political institutions, transaction cost economics, governance, contracting, institutional change, and more capture NIE's interdisciplinary nature. This Handbook will be of interest to economists, political scientists, legal scholars, management specialists, sociologists, and others wishing to learn more about this important subject and gain insight into progress made by institutionalists from other disciplines. This compendium of analyses by some of the foremost NIE specialists, including Ronald Coase, Douglass North, Elinor Ostrom, and Oliver Williamson, gives students and new researchers an introduction to the topic and offers established scholars a reference book for their research.
Author | : Louis Hotte |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Offenses against property |
ISBN | : |
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