State-Business Alliances and Economic Development : Turkey, Mexico and North Africa.

This book argues that a key dynamic behind economic development in the emerging markets is the coordination between the state and businesses. Exploring the links between institutions, state--business alliances and economic development in the context of tumultuous market transitions since the 1980s,...

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Main Author: Özel, Isik
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2014.
Series:Routledge Political Economy of the Middle East and North Africa.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Why Mexico and Turkey? A case for the cases; Model, data, and methods; The plan of the book; 1 Market transitions, business, and the state in emerging countries; Adjusting in coordination: actors and institutions; Formation and evolution of institutions: coordination between state and business; 2 Diverging pioneers: trajectories of Mexico and Turkey in the first phases of market transitions; Introduction.
  • Antecedents of market reforms and reform alliances: the ISI pact, crises and the responsesZigzagging reforms and shaky alliances in Turkey; Concessions and emergence of a narrow alliance in Mexico; Conclusion; 3 Increasing fragmentation and weak coordination in Turkey; Introduction; Turkish business: increasing fragmentation in the first phase of market transitions; The Turkish state: fragmentation and de-institutionalization; Conclusion; 4 Increasing cohesiveness and coordination in Mexico in the first phase of the transitions; Introduction; Gradual emergence of business cohesiveness.
  • Increasing state cohesiveness in the first phase of transitionsIncreasing coordination through cohesive actors; Conclusion; 5 Tamed by crises, eager to build institutions: the second phase of market transitions in Mexico and Turkey; Introduction; The rise of a regulatory state in Mexico?; The rise of a regulatory state in Turkey?; Resilient, but vulnerable: Turkish and Mexican economies encountering the 2008 crisis; Conclusion; 6 Increasing cohesiveness and a big spurt in Turkey; Introduction; Becoming cohesive with a twist: polar cohesiveness in the making.
  • Rising state cohesion: increasing capacity and institution buildingIncreasing coordination between the state and business; Conclusion; 7 Increasing fragmentation, institutional change, and slowdown in the second phase of transitions in Mexico; Increasing fragmentation within business; Diminishing state cohesiveness; Ad hoc coordination in the second phase of the transitions: lobbying vs. concertation; Conclusion; 8 Market transitions and state-business alliances in selected MENA countries; Introduction; State-business relations at the juncture of transitions in MENA.
  • Fragmentation, cronyism, and hesitant opening: the case of EgyptIncreasing cohesion and coordination: the case of Morocco; Increasing fragmentation and repression: the case of Tunisia; Conclusion; 9 Concluding remarks; Institutions, transitions, and challenges ahead; Material incentives and value systems; Lessons for MENA countries; Appendix: list of interviewees; Bibliography; Index.