scholarly journals Urban Land Grabbing by Political Elites: Exploring the Political Economy of Land and the Challenges of Regulation

2017 ◽  
pp. 283-304 ◽  
Author(s):  
Siobhan McDonnell
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Urban Land ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Elites ◽  
Land Grabbing

The Political Economy of Aid Allocation in Africa: Evidence from Zambia

2018 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takaaki Masaki
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Geographical Distribution ◽  
The Political ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Political Elites ◽  
Limited Information ◽  
Aid Allocation ◽  
Electoral Incentives ◽  
Swing Voters

Abstract:This article utilizes a newly available dataset on the geographical distribution of development projects in Zambia to test whether electoral incentives shape aid allocation at the subnational level. Based on this dataset, it argues that when political elites have limited information to target distributive goods specifically to swing voters, they allocate more donor projects to districts where opposition to the incumbent is strong, as opposed to districts where the incumbent enjoys greater popularity.

scholarly journals The Political Economy of Urban Land Reform in Hawaii

Urban Studies ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 32 (6) ◽  
pp. 999-1015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sumner J. La Croix ◽  
James Mak ◽  
Louis A. Rose
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Land Reform ◽  
Urban Land ◽  
The Political

The vulgarity of democracy. Political, pornography, masculinity and politics in Ecuador

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xavier Andrade
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Social Process ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Elites ◽  
Public Office ◽  
The Public ◽  
Image Objects ◽  
Audience Responses ◽  
Neoliberal Policies ◽  
Deviant Sexuality

The Vulgarity of Democracy explores key aesthetics and affective aspects of democracy via a visual ethnographic exploration of political pornography and the public uses of machismo to construct agendas for popular redemption in Guayaquil, Ecuador, during the 1980s. This period was the beginning of a highly conflictive social process as a result of the imposition of neoliberal policies. Its focus is on the life and work of Pancho Jaime (1946-1989), the most controversial and widely known rock promoter and independent journalist. Between 1984 and his assassination in 1989, Jaime’s underground publications used in-depth investigation as well as gossip, pornographic cartoons, and obscene language to comment on democracy and the corruption of political elites. Jaime’s strategy was to denounce the conduct of powerful figures in public office, and caricaturize their deformed bodies as indexes of their supposedly “deviant” sexuality. Following contemporary and comparative discussions on the political economy of images, and the materiality of image-objects, X. Andrade analyzes the production, circulation, and consumption of Pancho Jaime’s political magazines, audience responses to grotesque visual and aggressive textual discourses, and the effects of revealing public secrets about popular understandings of politics.

Internationalization of finance capital in Spain and Turkey: Neoliberal globalization and the political economy of state policies

2012 ◽  
Vol 47 ◽  
pp. 115-137 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mustafa Kutlay
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Financial Crisis ◽  
State Policies ◽  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Elites ◽  
Neoliberal Globalization ◽  
Finance Capital ◽  
Policy Fields ◽  
Over Time

AbstractThis study applies the proactive/reactive state framework to the transformation of Spanish and Turkish finance capital in a comparative perspective. It concludes that the “proactive” policies pursued by the Spanish state and the strategic coalition established between political elites and the integrationist segments of finance capital resulted in the heterodox internationalization of Spanish firms, whereas the “reactive” state policies in Turkey, designed in line with orthodox neoliberal dictums, paved the way for an incomplete internationalization. The 2007/2008 crisis, however, demonstrates that the same state may be both proactive and reactive across various policy fields over time. The recent Spanish financial crisis and Turkey's regulatory success after 2001 illustrate this point.

The limits of instrumentalizing disorder: Reassessing the neopatrimonial perspective in the Central African Republic

2018 ◽  
Vol 118 (471) ◽  
pp. 307-327 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lotje de Vries ◽  
Andreas Mehler
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Functional Role ◽  
Central African Republic ◽  
Political Elite ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Elites ◽  
Informal Networks ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Power Basis

Abstract Assumptions about the political economy of African states predominantly centre on a dominant elite’s ability to stabilize power. A key assertion is that elites maintain clientelistic networks of rents and redistribution and in turn extend their control over their respective territories by instrumentalizing disorder. We challenge the assumption that disorder plays such a functional role. Largely drawing on data and fieldwork from the Central African Republic, we demonstrate the profoundly unproductive consequences of disorder that tend to be overlooked through current approaches to the political economy of African countries. We investigate how disorder impacts three dimensions of effective politics of domination: a set of elite groups that structure power in society, a political economy that redistributes its benefits through formal and informal networks, and the existence of functional centre–periphery ties across a territory. The article shows with regard to the Central African Republic that disorder has produced a small political elite that is largely unable to stabilize its power basis. We argue that certain African states are subject to forms of disorder that political elites cannot turn into an advantage.

scholarly journals The Political Economy of Land Grabbing

2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 197-204 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim Krieger ◽  
Martin Leroch
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
The Political ◽  
Land Grabbing
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