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Tuesday, August 9, 2011

the transformation of interest politics in india, stanley kochanek (1995-1996)

(530-531): FICCI ('older, more traditional, indigenous), Assocham (both indigenous and foreign), CII (new regions and sunrise industries)

(532-538): FICCI historically 'economic arm' of Congress, though not without issues internally; regional strains (Calcutta vs. Bombay) led, eventually, to split in 80s, and subsequent revitalization of Assocham

(540): Assocham became mirror image of FICCI, though they had diffferent regional bases (Western for former, North and East for latter)

(541): useful table of top business houses, affiliation, and capitalization

(542): FICCI was quantitatively superior, but Assocham had qualitatively better/more endowed membership

(543-545): CII emerged in context of political/economic instability ('89-'91)--representing younger managers, new manufacturing sectors, and the South. more modern forms of lobbying, etc.

(547): imp--in the post-reforms period, CII became proactive [claim, running through Kochanek, is that reforms were engineered by bureaucracy, and business houses were almost uniformly reactive throughout]


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