Precarious Ties: Business and the State in Authoritarian Asia Rithmire Meg
Precarious Ties: Business and the State in Authoritarian Asia Rithmire Meg Developing Asia has been the site of some of the last century's fastest growing economies as well as some of the world's…
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Precarious Ties: Business and the State in Authoritarian Asia Rithmire Meg
Developing Asia has been the site of some of the last century's fastest growing economies as well as some of the world's most durable authoritarian regimes. But these relationships have not always been smooth, as anti-corruption campaigns, financial and banking crises, and dramatic bouts of liberalization and crackdown demonstrate. Many accounts of rapid growth alongside monopolies on political power have focused on crony relationships between the state and business.
And why do some partnerships produce stable growth and others produce crisis or stagnation?In Precarious Ties, Meg Rithmire offers a novel account of the relationships between business and political elites in three authoritarian regimes in developing Asia: Indonesia under Suharto's New Order, Malaysia under the Barisan Nasional, Why do partnerships between political and business elites fall apart over time?