Precarious ties : business and the state in authoritarian Asia / Meg Rithmire.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rithmire, Meg E., 1982- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Industrial policy--Asia.

Industrial policy.

Authoritarianism--Asia.

Authoritarianism.

Patronage, Political--Asia.

Patronage, Political.

Asia--Politics and government.

Asia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (393 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Summary:

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, and China under the Chinese Communist Party. All three regimes enjoyed periods of high growth and supposed alliances between autocrats and capitalists. Over time, however, the relationships between capitalists and political elites changed, and economic outcomes diverged. While state-business ties in Indonesia and China created dangerous dynamics like capital flight, fraud, and financial crisis, Malaysia's state-business ties contributed to economic stagnation. To understand these developments, Rithmire presents two conceptual models of state-business relations that explain their genesis and why variation occurs over time.

Contents:

Cover

Precarious Ties

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

List of Tables

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

1. The Foundations of State-​Business Relations in Authoritarian Asia

2. The Origins of Trust and Distrust: The Making of Capitalist Classes in Asia, 1945-​1970

3. Mutual Endangerment in Indonesia: State-​Business Relations with Distrust

4. Mutual Alignment and Competitive Clientelism in Malaysia

5. China's Capitalists under Reform: The Life and Death of Mutual Alignment

6. Elite Disintegration: The Moral Economy of Mutual Endangerment in China

7. Crisis and Reconfiguration: The Chinese Communist Party versus Business

8. Conclusion: Power and Moral Economy in Authoritarian Capitalism

Appendices

Glossary

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2023.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on September 1, 2023).

ISBN:

0-19-769756-9

0-19-769754-2

0-19-769755-0

OCLC:

1381093414