Corruption and Growth

The course is focused on historical texts, most of them philosophical. Context for understanding the texts and the course of democratic development will be provided in lecture and discussions, and by some background readings (Dunn). We begin with the remarkable Athenian democracy, and its frequent enemy the Spartan oligarchy. In Athens legislation was passed directly by an assembly of all citizens, and executive officials were selected by lot rather than by competitive election. Athenian oligarchs such as Plato more admired Sparta, and their disdain for the democracy became the judgment of the ages, until well after the modern democratic revolutions. Marsilius of Padua in the early Middle Ages argued for popular sovereignty. The Italian citystates of the Middle Ages did without kings, and looked back to Rome and Greece for republican models. During the English Civil War republicans debated whether the few or the many should be full citizens of the regime. The English, French, and American revolutions struggled with justifying and establishing a representative democracy suitable for a large state, and relied on election rather than lot to select officials. The English established a constitutional monarchy, admired in Europe, and adapted by the Americans in their republican constitution. The American Revolution helped inspire the French, and the French inspired republican and democratic revolution throughout Europe during the 19 century.

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Democracy and Its Critics

It’s been a long time since academic discussions about research and teaching were part of the board meetings of the department of Anthropology and Sociology of the University of Amsterdam. Most of our meetings today deal with administrative problems [...]

Seeing like a State.

The authors present the Annual Oral Cancer Campaign of Araraquara promoted by the Oral Medicine Service of the Araraquara Dental School – UNESP. This campaign is an extension activity which, since its beginning, in 1993, has been expanding.The campaign provides background for teaching and research as well as benefits to the regional community. In 1999 this activity was conducted, for the first time, in a public fair visited daily for thousands people. This opportunity, which started in 1999, promoted the expansion of benefits and contributed to legitimate the campaign as an authentic extramural extension activity.

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Campanha de prevenção do câncer bucal em Araraquara: uma iniciativa de extensão consolidada em 11 anos de experiência

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Strong Societies And Weak States State Society Relations And State Capabilities In The Third World

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Korruption in China: Analyse eines politischen, ökonomischen und sozialen Problems

This working paper brings together assessments of the trilateral relations between China, the EU und the US from the disciplines of political science and economics. The first paper primarily addresses the following three issues: a) China's current development and prospects b) EU-China relations, and c) recommendations in terms of EU policies towards China. The second paper applies a three tier analysis looking first at changes in the Chinese and global economic setting caused by China's WTO accession. It then takes a look at the bilateral economic relations between China and the EU and US respectively. Finally the scored goals and competing interests of the USA and the EU vis-a-vis China are analysed.

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China, the European Union and the United States of America: Partners or competitors?

After the beginning of the 1980s, the economic conversion towards a market economy led to a crisis in the urban social system. The partystate was no longer capable of ensuring, or willing to ensure, social protection by itself. New urban ＂neighbourhood communities＂ were supposed to assume these tasks through the far-reaching inclusion of their respective residents. This required an expansion of participation, self-help, and self-organization, i.e. socially and politically active citizens. In recent years, the state has therefore fostered social participation by its citizens in urban areas. Citizens' social commitment and activities in their neighbourhoods improve the quality of public services and thus their satisfaction with the state. In this article, the author argues that the Chinese party-state is attempting through this means to pursue the goal of strengthening its legitimacy. The article tries to clarify this intention with an example from a central policy field: the reorganization of social security by means of urban neighbourhoods. The question as to whether or not legitimacy is actually spawned by this reorganization cannot be fully answered at this time. The neighbourhood communities and their social security function are still rather recent. Therefore the author's focus lies much more on the state's discourse and intention to gain legitimacy, the implementation of its intention, and the initial reactions of the population involved.

Relegitimation through New Patterns of Social Security: Neighbourhood Communities as Legitimating Institutions

Existing scholarship regards the collusion between the Chinese government and the private sector as 'informal' and a series of 'economic alliances', without considering the private sector's institutionalized participation in the process of government policy formulation. This article takes an alternative perspective and examines such institutionalized efforts in interest expression and policy promotion. In the authoritarian regime, state institutions that previously functioned to co-opt and corporatize the private sector have also become forums in which private entrepreneurs can have an impact on policy-making. This change results from the state's initiative in developing formal channels of participation based on the united front work remnant and interaction between 'state control' and the 'business lobby'. The shift from 'state control' to the 'business lobby' reveals a unique pathway for private interest to have an impact on public policy formulation.

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From "state control" to "business lobbying": The institutional origin of private entrepreneurs' policy influence in China

China scholars have consistently described China's private entrepreneurs as politically co-opted by the Communist Party regime. Since China's economic development now overwhelmingly depends on the performance of the private sector, the political dynamics and power configurations within the current regime coalition between state and business may have seen change over the past decade. Drawing on the recent literature on state-business relations and fieldwork conducted in different provinces, cities, and counties since 2012, this paper hypothesizes that private entrepreneurs are a "strategic group" in Chinese politics. By working through the multidimensional networks that crisscross different party-state units, administrative levels, and formal institutions such as business associations and local parliamentary bodies all over the country, private entrepreneurs act collectively, albeit in (as yet) uncoordinated ways. By looking closely at the evolving government-business nexus in China's local state, this article sheds new light on private entrepreneurs' strategic action in China's political system and highlights that private entrepreneurs are increasingly influential within the existing regime coalition.

Thomas Heberer

Papers

Korruption in China: Analyse eines politischen, ökonomischen und sozialen Problems

China, the European Union and the United States of America: Partners or competitors?

Relegitimation through New Patterns of Social Security: Neighbourhood Communities as Legitimating Institutions

From "state control" to "business lobbying": The institutional origin of private entrepreneurs' policy influence in China

Private Entrepreneurs as a "Strategic Group" in the Chinese Polity