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1 online resource (255 pages)
ISBN:
9780511156472
Serie:
Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions
Inhalt:
This book explores the breakdown of the institutions that govern natural resource exports in developing states.
Inhalt:
Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Tables -- Preface -- 1 Introduction Three Puzzles -- OUTLINE OF THE BOOK -- 2 The Problem of Resource Booms -- NATURAL RESOURCE EXPORTERS -- RESOURCE BOOMS -- RESOURCE INSTITUTIONS -- MEASURING INSTITUTIONAL PERFORMANCE -- Multisector Studies -- Petroleum -- Hard-Rock Minerals -- Agriculture -- Guano -- CONCLUSION -- 3 Explaining Institutional Breakdown -- COGNITIVE EXPLANATIONS FOR WINDFALL POLICY FAILURES -- Societal Explanations for Windfall Policy Failures -- A THEORY OF RENT SEIZING -- How Does Rent Seizing Effect Institutions? -- How is Rent Seizing Different from Rent Seeking? -- How Quickly Is the Windfall "Spent" on Patronage and Corruption? -- How Does a State's Regime Type Influence Rent Seizing? -- Summary -- CASE SELECTION AND THE COMPARATIVE METHOD -- Choosing a Narrow Set of Cases -- The Case of Hardwood Timber -- The Philippines, Indonesia, Sabah and Sarawak -- The Case Study Format -- 4 The Philippines The Legal Slaughter of the Forests -- POLITICS AND PATRONAGE IN THE PHILIPPINES -- GOVERNING THE FORESTS, 1901-51 -- THE TIMBER WINDFALL AND RENT SEIZING, 1951-65 -- PRESIDENT MARCOS AND THE FORESTS, 1965-72 -- PRESIDENT MARCOS UNDER AUTHORITARIAN RULE, 1972-86 -- THE UNDERTAXATION OF TIMBER LICENSES -- CONCLUSION -- 5 Sabah, Malaysia A New State of Affairs -- POLITICS IN SABAH -- THE GOVERNANCE OF THE FORESTS UNDER COLONIAL RULE, 1920-63 -- The British Borneo Timber Company, 1920-52 -- Rent Seeking under Colonial Rule, 1953-63 -- TIMBER POLITICS UNDER THE SABAH ALLIANCE, 1963-7 -- The Strategies of USNO and UNKO -- Rent Seizing, 1963-7 -- The 1967 Election -- RENT SEIZING UNDER TUN MUSTAPHA, 1967-76 -- Gaining Direct and Discretionary Allocation Rights -- Creating Ransack Rents -- Windfall Use Under Mustapha 1967-75.
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ISBN 9780521791670
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Ross, Michael Lewin, 1961 - Timber booms and institutional breakdown in Southeast Asia Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2001 ISBN 0521791677
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Print version Timber Booms and Institutional Breakdown in Southeast Asia
Sprache:
Englisch
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Südostasien
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