Co-Investment and Clientelism as Informal Institutions: Beyond ‘Good Enough’ Property Rights Protection

Hamilton‐Hart, Natasha; Palmer, Blair

doi:10.1007/s12116-017-9250-1

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“…Furthermore, policies also indicate land-use planning and allocation, and permits and licensing being critical drivers of oil palm plantation expansion. Lack of participation and clarity in land-use planning and allocation processes has given rise to various tenurial problems, such as unclear land rights, and overlapping and/or mutual land claims between actors (Abram et al 2017, Andrianto et al 2019, Hamilton-Hart 2017a, Juniyanti et al 2021). Cases of misalignment between central and local governments have been identified in permit and licensing processes.…”

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Green consumer behaviour influences Indonesian palm oil sustainability

Purnomo,

Kusumadewi,

Ilham

et al. 2023

int. forest. rev.

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Palm oil businesses affect livelihoods and the environment, particularly forests, with land-use change and climate change impacts. This research aimed to develop a model for understanding the influences of global trade and political economy factors on palm oil sustainability and livelihoods in Indonesia. It combined systematic review with structural equation modelling through a model called POPETS (Palm Oil Political Economy and Trade Structural equation model). The study revealed that palm oil sustainability is defined by employment opportunities and no deforestation, while livelihoods are defined by household income. Trade and political economy factors (structures, institutions and actors) significantly influence the sustainability of palm oil. Trade has indirect effects on sustainability and livelihoods, while actors have a direct effect on sustainability. There is also a positive correlation between sustainability and livelihoods. These findings suggest the importance of synergizing global trade effects and national government roles to advance palm oil sustainability in the producing countries.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

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Green consumer behaviour influences Indonesian palm oil sustainability

Purnomo,

Kusumadewi,

Ilham

et al. 2023

int. forest. rev.

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“…This contribution serves as a reminder that the institutional attributes and capacities of states are not uniform, but can differ by sector (e.g. Kim, 2019) and, particularly in partially decentralized systems such as China and Indonesia, by locality (Hamilton-Hart & Palmer, 2017;Zhang & Zhu, 2018). Thurbon and Weiss (2020) study of Korea's robotics industry also shows ongoing state activity for developmental purposes that is meaningfully distinguished from the 'market-supporting' interventions of regulatory states.…”

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confidence: 97%

“…In application, however, both the institutions themselves and their hypothesized antecedents are elastic. 'Secure' property rights cover a wide range of experiences in property protection, including substantial insecurity for some on the road to capitalist transitions (Hamilton-Hart & Palmer, 2017). Similarly, when commonly used proxies for institutions such as 'the rule of law' are disaggregated, much of the explanatory force attached to the rule of law disappears in developing country contexts in favor of more basic protections such as control of crime (Haggard & Tiede, 2011).…”

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confidence: 99%

Institutions under pressure: East Asian states, global markets and national firms

Hamilton‐Hart

Yeung

2019

Review of International Political Economy

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Institutions across East Asia are in flux as a result of market pressures and political shifts. Some changes have been adaptive while others appear to erode institutional capacity. This framework article introduces the Special Issue, developing an analytic synthesis of scholarship on institutional capacity and change. We focus on the role of markets and firms in bringing about different types of institutional change, and the reconfiguration of state roles to meet new challenges. Accounts of institutional change increasingly focus on incremental institutional change and specify different endogenous processes through which it occurs. We show that changes in the way markets are structured, or market shifts, are important sources of institutional change in East Asia. Such market shifts operate in different ways and geographical scales. They can alter actor preferences with regard to institutional form, produce a shift in the relative political influence of different actors, and prompt institutional 'drift'change in the functionality of institutions due to changed circumstances. Both states and firms play a role in these changes. As the case studies in the collection show, states and firms in the region have both reacted to contextual shifts in markets and proactively led institutional change.

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“…A focus on the business-government relationship calls for greater attention to the mediating institutions that prescribe de facto rules for interaction between public and private sectors (Doner, 2009). Characteristics of state institutions (for example, the degree of effective hierarchical discipline) incentivize different types of interaction with private actors (personalized and informal, for example, or collective and formalized), with predictable consequences for the discipline and consistency of policy implementation (Davidson, 2015;Hamilton-Hart and Palmer, 2017). The organization of private sector actors also matters: the readiness of firms to organize through business associations or interfirm group ties varies widely, affecting the firms' ability to provide common-good functions independently and enabling collective interactions with government actors (Doner and Schneider, 2000;Noble, 1998;Wade, 2018).…”

Section: Institutions and Collective Action In Taiwan's Developmentmentioning

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“…Firms can reassure partners who are asked to make specific, long-term commitments through mechanisms such as joint venture structures that provide mutual reassurance (Yamagishi and Yamagishi, 1994). A government which needs to offer private investors sufficient reassurance that it will not expropriate or over-tax private investment returns may introduce 'self-binding' restraints or engage in co-investment strategies (Hamilton-Hart and Palmer, 2017;North and Weingast, 1989).…”

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Taiwan's COVID‐19 Response: The Interdependence of State and Private Sector Institutions

Siedlok¹,

Hamilton‐Hart²,

Shen³

2021

Development and Change

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During 2020, Taiwan's facemask policy formed a critical part of its relatively successful response to the COVID-19 pandemic. It also served to showcase capacities for coordinated action by state and business actors. This article demonstrates that Taiwan's ability to rapidly increase facemask production called for the government and key industry players to overcome a series of cooperation challenges. The authors show that the effective industry response required concerted action in three domains: the state sector, businessgovernment cooperation, and cooperation among private firms. This article makes two contributions. First, it differentiates the dynamics attached to coordination, commitment and collective action challenges that actors in public and private sectors needed to overcome in order to deliver on the policy. Second, it contributes to the literature by endorsing the view that businessgovernment cooperation and private sector coordination are complementary and interdependent. The findings presented here further illustrate the evolution of Taiwan's state institutions in their capacity to take on new tasks and modes of interaction with private sector actors.The authors would like to thank the anonymous referees for their constructive comments on the earlier versions of the manuscript. We also would like to recognize Taiwan's contribution to fighting the global pandemic, despite the adversities it faces.

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Co-Investment and Clientelism as Informal Institutions: Beyond ‘Good Enough’ Property Rights Protection

Cited by 11 publications

References 58 publications

Green consumer behaviour influences Indonesian palm oil sustainability

Green consumer behaviour influences Indonesian palm oil sustainability

Institutions under pressure: East Asian states, global markets and national firms

Taiwan's COVID‐19 Response: The Interdependence of State and Private Sector Institutions

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