Markets, states and democracy: Patron–client networks and the case for democracy in developing countries

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Corrupting or Consolidating the Peace? The Drugs Economy and Post-conflict Peacebuilding in Afghanistan (2008, background): “Therefore, there is a deep interpenetration of formal politics with informal structures of networks and factions and, as Mustaq Khan has shown in other contexts, internal political stability is not maintained through fiscal policy, but largely through off-budget and selective accommodation of factio”
Rethinking the Relationship between Neo‐patrimonialism and Economic Development in Africa (2011, background): “In the area of investment climate promotion, for example, this is manifested in efforts to increase regulatory transparency and promote business associations, replacing cronyist, ‘hand-in-glove’ business–politics ties with more impersonal, arm’s length relations, typical of best practice in the West”
Adverse Incorporation, Social Exclusion and Chronic Poverty (2007, background): “More broadly, it has offered a further obstacle to the formation of a (productive) national capitalist class in poor countries, with attendant problems for processes of state-formation (Eriksen, 2005, Khan, 2005a).”