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Embedded Politics: Industrial Networks And Institutional Change In Post-Communism, Gerald Mcdermott
Embedded Politics: Industrial Networks And Institutional Change In Post-Communism, Gerald Mcdermott
Gerald A McDermott
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 …
Transnational Integration Regimes As Development Programs, Laszlo Bruszt, Gerald Mcdermott
Transnational Integration Regimes As Development Programs, Laszlo Bruszt, Gerald Mcdermott
Gerald A McDermott
In drawing on recent advances in international and comparative political economy, this paper argues that diverging paths of institutional development among emerging market democracies are driven by the Transnational Integration Regimes (TIRs), in which a country is embedded. As development programs, TIRs differ in their effectiveness not simply in terms of their incentives and largess and more in terms of their emphasis on building institutional capacities, empowering a variety of domestic state and non-state actors via multiplex methods of assistance and monitoring, and their ability to merge monitoring and learning at both the national and supra-national levels. We develop a …