Political Parties in Business: Rent Seekers, Developmentalists, or Both?
研究了后冲突非洲经济体中执政党拥有的企业集团（Parbus）何时会追求财富再分配寻租、何时会创造财富，基于非洲和亚洲四个案例提出分析框架，识别了影响其发展路径的四种体制特征。
Ruling party-owned conglomerates (Parbus) are emerging in some post-conflict African economies following state capture by ethnic parties. We offer an analytical framework, buttressed by four country case studies of ‘developmental ethnocracies’ in Africa and Asia to identify when Parbus dominance can be redistributive wealth-seeking and when wealth-creating. Four regime characteristics underpin the prospects for wealth creation over rent-seeking: legitimation angst, organisational capacity, ideology, and degree of state centralisation. Three evolutionary paths (perhaps stages) suggest themselves: paragonist that is inclusive and growth friendly, parasitic engendering a poverty-tyranny trap and mutualist exemplified by a destabilising contest among party, state and private interests.