TY - BOOK ID - 121326891 TI - Precarious ties : business and the state in authoritarian Asia PY - 2023 SN - 0197697569 0197697542 0197697550 PB - New York, NY : Oxford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Authoritarianism KW - Industrial policy KW - Patronage, Political KW - Asia KW - Politics and government. KW - Industry. KW - Industry & industrial studies. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:121326891 AB - 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. ER -