Embedded Politics: Industrial Networks and Institutional Change in Post-Communism

Author(s)

Gerald A. McDermott, University of South CarolinaFollow

Document Type

Book

Subject Area(s)

Business - International

Abstract

Embedded Politics offers a unique framework for analyzing the impact of past industrial networks on the way postcommunist societies build new institutions to govern the restructuring of their economies. Drawing on a detailed analysis of communist Czechoslovakia and contemporary Czech industries and banks, Gerald A. McDermott argues that restructuring is best advanced through the creation of deliberative or participatory forms of governance that encourages public and private actors to share information and take risks. Further, he contends that institutional and organizational changes are intertwined and that experimental processes are shaped by how governments delegate power to local public and private actors and monitor them.

Publication Info

Published in 2002.

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