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Tuesday, August 9, 2011

liberalization and business lobbying in india, stanley kochanek (1996)

(157): ability of business associations to influence the regulatory regime was severely limited due to relative autonomy of the State [in other words, more-or-less the opposite of the explanation given by Vivek for problems of  'license raj']

(158): business not particularly involved in the process of liberalization ('invluence very limited')--not their lobbying that explains it, but external and internal crises.

(160): Indira Gandhi's rise to power in 1969 was a 'shift to the Left', ruining long-standing relationship between Congress establishment and elite business families

(168): Bombay Club, in 1993, emerged as industrialists opposed to reform process--unwilling to be opened up to international competition

(169): interesting--FICCI strongly endorsed Bombay Club's critique of reforms, CII's approach was more subtle (even though many of its members were in Bombay Club)

(169): imp--again, reforms were the work of a "small technocratic elite"

(170): no constituency behind Rao reforms

(171): like Kohli, reforms are understood not as dramatic, but halting and responsive to resistance of powerful sectors

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