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The state as investment market : Kyrgyzstan in comparative perspective / Johan Engvall.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Central Eurasia in contextPublication details: Pittsburgh, Pa : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2016]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780822981404
  • 0822981408
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 364.1/323095843 23
LOC classification:
  • JQ1092.A95 E583 2016
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: "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"-- Provided by publisher.Summary: "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"-- Provided by publisher.
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"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"-- Provided by publisher.

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Print version record.

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.

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