The Chinese state has installed the residents' committee as a form of self-governance organization in each residential area in the cities. It is, however, challenged by the homeowners, a social group that has newly emerged as a result of China's economic liberalization. To protect their own...

This study of Argentina over the past 25 years confronts two questions: Why has Argentina, one of Latin America's wealthiest and most developed nations, failed so tragically to reconcile economic modernization and liberal democracy? Why have authoritarian regimes failed even more spectacularly...

"Capitalists in most authoritarian regimes have been described as "cronies" of political elites, but why do some crony relationships produce growth, while others produce stagnation or even destructive economic crisis? And if business actors are "co-opted" by authoritarian regimes, like China's...

Spätestens seit dem Fall der Berliner Mauer galt der Neoliberalismus mit seiner Tendenz zur umfassenden Deregulierung als adäquate Epochenbestimmung. Seit einiger Zeit wird das Bild aber um einige Ambivalenzen reicher: Wirtschaftsfreundliche Regierungen wie in den USA oder Großbritannien...