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1 online resource (258 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Contents |
Cover; Half-title; Dedication; Title page; Copyright information; Table of contents; List of figures; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; The Magic of Secure Property Rights; Failed States, Dominant Rulers, and Credible Commitment: Conventional Wisdom; Threats to Property Rights; Securing Property Rights; Of State Piranhas and Business Stakeholders: Toward a New Theory; Methodology; Organization of the Book; 2 Agent Predation and Secure Ownership; Background and Definitions; Critique of the Literature; State Failure and Ruler Dominance as Threats?; State Commitment as Panacea? |
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Business Owners as Mere Policy-Takers?Agent Predation and the Bottom-Up Path to Secure Ownership; Ideal Types of State Threats to PR; Varieties of Agent Predation; State Actors and Agent Predation; From Agent Predation to Property Protection: Three Arguments; Property Rights and Postcommunism; Appendix: Interviews and Survey; Interviews; Survey; 3 Not Too Petty; Private Ownership and Its Legal Protections: A Brief History; Agent Predation beyond "Corruption"; Annexation; Intervention and Extortion; Administrative Wars and Agent Predation; Russia and Ukraine Compared; Private Threats. |
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Survey Evidence: Agent Predation or Siphoning?Income Threats and Ownership Threats Compared; Impact of Distinct Threat Types; Dynamic Trends and the Broader Postcommunist Region; 4 Mini-Beasts versus Sovereign; Expert Opinion and Bureaucrat behavior; Sovereign Priorities and Agent Predation; Power Retention; Military Security; State Budgets and Pet Projects; Sovereign Efforts to Contain Agent Predation; Administrative Reform; Manual Control; Anti-Raiding Reforms and Sovereign Intentions; Deregulation and Sovereign Intentions; Survey Evidence: Agent Predation or Principal Expropriation? |
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Blame Attribution and Remedies for PR Insecurity: Central Vs Local StateImpact of Central-Local Blame Attribution on Firm Behavior; Subnational Variation in State Threats; Conclusion: Bespredel, Samodeiatel'nost', and History; 5 Commitment Dissolved; Putin's Russia and the Rise of The Business Quartet; Business Institutionalization under Putin; The Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs; The Chamber of Commerce and Industry; The Union of Business Associations of Russia (OPORA); Business Russia (Delovaia Rossiia); The BA Quartet. |
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The Logic of Business Institutionalization: Cooptation versus CommitmentBusiness Institutionalization for Vote Harvesting?; Business Institutionalization for Sovereign Domination of Firms?; Business Institutionalization as Commitment; The Limits of "Commitment"; Subversion by State Agents; Politicization of Business Associations; Ukraine's Orange Revolution and Property Rights; Constraints on the Ukrainian Presidency before and after the Revolution; Whither Sovereign Commitment?; Predation in Orange; Impunity and Instability; Incompetence; Re-privatization; Conclusion. |
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6 Firm Stakeholders versus State Predators. |
| Summary |
This book analyzes the threats to the property rights of business owners and investigates what makes these rights secure. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Privatization -- Russia (Federation)
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Privatization. |
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Russia (Federation) |
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Privatization -- Ukraine.
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Ukraine. |
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Right of property -- Russia (Federation)
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Right of property. |
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Right of property -- Ukraine.
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Political corruption -- Russia (Federation)
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Political corruption. |
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Political corruption -- Ukraine.
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Russia (Federation) -- Politics and government.
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Politics and government. |
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Ukraine -- Politics and government.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Markus, Stanislav, 1977- Property, predation, and protection 9781107088344 (DLC) 2014025985 (OCoLC)884439946 |
| ISBN |
9781316204900 (electronic book) |
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1316204901 (electronic book) |
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9781316104743 |
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1316104745 |
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9781322560984 |
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1322560986 |
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9781316208564 |
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1316208567 |
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9781107088344 |
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1107088348 |
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9781107459076 |
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1107459079 |
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