TY  - GEN
AU  - Schoenman,Roger
TI  - Networks and institutions in Europe's emerging markets
SN  - cbo9781139381628
PY  - 2014///
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Politics & government
KW  - bicssc
KW  - europe
KW  - eastern
KW  - business and politics
KW  - economic aspects
KW  - institution building
KW  - political aspects
KW  - business networks
KW  - post-communism
KW  - economic policy
KW  - Bulgaria
KW  - Collective action
KW  - Poland
KW  - Privatization
KW  - Romania
N1  - Open Access
N2  - Do ties between political parties and businesses harm or benefit the development of market institutions? The post-communist transition offers an unparalleled opportunity to explore when and how networks linking the polity and the economy support the development of func-tional institutions. A quantitative and qualitative analysis covering eleven post-socialist countries combined with detailed case studies of Bulgaria, Poland, and Romania documents how the most successful post-communist countries are those in which dense networks link polit-icians and businesspeople, as long as politicians are constrained by intense political competition. The comparison of original network data sets shows how this combination allowed Poland to emerge with stable institutions. Bulgaria, marred by weak institutions, corruption, and violence, cautions us that in developing economies intense political competition alone is harmful in the absence of dense personal and ownership networks. Indeed, as Romania illustrates, networks are so critical that their weakness is not mitigated even by low political competition. This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/33419/1/477427.pdf
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/33419/1/477427.pdf
UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/36588
ER  -