Why do many States in transitional economies lack the regulative capacities to evenly
distribute property rights among emerging private firms resulting in having public good …

After the ousting of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in February 2011, much
debate surrounded the reasons for the former regime's longevity and its collapse. Here …

The paper studies the nature and extent of Egyptian “crony” capitalism by comparing the
corporate performance and the stock market valuation of politically connected and …

Neoliberal market reformers stress the 'market building instincts' of private owners to justify
rapid forms of property transformation under illiberal political conditions. Private owners …

What is the relationship between globalization and the political power of business? Much of
the existing literature focuses on the ability of mobile capital to threaten exit in order to press …

Independence from colonial rule was a key event for both political and economic reasons.
We argue that newly independent countries often inherited sub-optimal institutional …

Political scientists have recently turned to the Weberian concept of patrimonialism to explain
political stability in some Third-World states. Indonesia during the Guided Democracy period …

Since 2009, analyses of Iran have stressed the centralizing takeover of the country's
economy by a single state institution, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps. At the same …

Describing the relocation of the patronage-based relationship between the state and the
private sector in post-liberalisation India, this article goes on to address the consequences of …

How do property rights become secure? How does rule of law take hold in an economy?
The author uses an original survey of 516 firms in Russia and Ukraine, as well as interview …