TY  - BOOK
AU  - Engvall,Johan
TI  - The state as investment market: Kyrgyzstan in comparative perspective 
T2  - Central Eurasia in context
SN  - 9780822981404
AV  - JQ1092.A95 E583 2016
U1  - 364.1/323095843 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Pittsburgh, Pa
PB  - University of Pittsburgh Press
KW  - Post-communism
KW  - Kyrgyzstan
KW  - Political corruption
KW  - Bureaucracy
KW  - Corrupt practices
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - World
KW  - Asian
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1991-
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Acknowledgments ; Introduction ; Chapter 1. The Framework ; Chapter 2. Market Access: Recruitment to the State; Chapter 3. Why Invest?: Motives for Buying Public Offices ; Chapter 4. How to Make a Return on the Investment ; Chapter 5. Market Stability and Instability ; Chapter 6. The Investment-Market State in Comparative Perspective ; Conclusion ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index
N2  - "Based on a detailed examination of Kyrgyzstan, Johan Engvall goes well beyond the case of this single country to elaborate a broad theory of economic corruption in developing post-Soviet states regionally--as a rational form of investment market for political elites. He reveals how would-be officials invest in offices to obtain access to income streams associated with those offices. Drawing on extensive fieldwork Engvall details how these systems work and the major implications for political and economic development in the region"--; "Based on the case of Kyrgyzstan, while going well beyond it to elaborate a theory of the developing state that comprehends corruption as not merely criminal, but a type of market based on highly rational decisions made by the powerful individuals within, or connected to, the state"--
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