CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2019
| Author | Kocaogullari, Anil |
|---|---|
| Title | Rent-Seeking in an Authoritarian Regime: Corporate Donations to the Government-Organized Non-Governmental Organization (GONGOs) in Turkey |
| Summary | Corporate political strategies and rent-seeking activities vary across countries. Political institutions play a key role in determining the rent-seeking activities. However, the new forms of rent-seeking activities are rarely identified and rarely examined with regards to their relation to the political institutions. This work contends that rising authoritarian regimes mold rent-seeking activities differently from what mainstream literature suggests. Based on the case of Turkey, it is contended that the business actors are motivated to spend considerable financial resources for the donations to government-organized non-governmental organizations (GONGOs). Authoritarian governance stipulates the business actors to make GONGO donations to have access to the crony networks and rents. On the other hand, donations facilitate the authoritarian government to legitimize the regime via GONGOs. |
| Supervisor | Melnykovska, Inna |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2019/kocaogullari_anil.pdf |
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