scholarly journals Assessing Political Risk Analysis in a hybrid regime: The case of Zimbabwe

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Itai Makone ◽  
Derica Lambrechts
Keyword(s):  
Risk Analysis ◽  
Government Regulation ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Political Risk ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Hybrid Regimes ◽  
Weak Institutions ◽  
Hybrid Regime ◽  
State Relations ◽  
Election Violence

Political Risk Analysis (PRA) levels are theoretically postulated to increase in a hybrid regime. This paper argues that there is a change to this hypothesis. A single case research design was employed, using Zimbabwe from 1990 to 2018. During the period, Zimbabwe showed five diverse forms of hybridity which are liberal, competitive illiberal, competitive, illiberal, and military hybrid regimes. A conceptual framework is developed to assess political risk in a hybrid regime using hybrid regime indicators and some political risk factors of most concern to developing countries. 28 key informants from six categories of respondents were interviewed. Illegitimacy, corruption, the staleness of leadership, adverse government regulation, election violence, and severed home-host state relations were confirmed to increase the perception of political risk in a hybrid regime. Investors were observed to have developed a tolerance for some “unacceptable” factors that increased political risk. Military tutelage, weak institutions, flawed elections, military generals in power, undemocratic means to retain power, minimum horizontal accountability and weak rule of law were found to not automatically increase political risk as before. The paper concludes that there is no single form of hybridity and as such different forms of hybrid regimes accrue different levels of political risk, some lower levels while others substantially higher levels. Therefore, in a hybrid regime, a differentiated PRA monitoring, assessing and mitigation strategy will be most effective for management to implement. Future studies can apply the analytical framework of assessing PRA in a hybrid to another hybrid regime to expand the theoretical propositions made by this paper

Country Risk Analysis of Bangladesh

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zahidur Rahman ◽  
Jannatul Ferdous Bristy
Keyword(s):  
Risk Analysis ◽  
Financial Risk ◽  
Political Risk ◽  
Multinational Companies ◽  
Country Risk ◽  
Low Risk ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Financial Factors ◽  
Political Economic

In the endeavor of conquering the worlds consumers, multinational companies face enormous risks. Such risks may arise from different political, economic, and financial factors. These factors are commonly referred to country risk as a whole. Focusing Bangladesh in this regard, objective of this study is to find out the level of country risk in terms of political, economic, and financial riskiness. Analysis of country risk has been done using an internationally recognized methodology named International Country Risk Guide (ICRG). For political risk analysis, primary data has been collected from 20 journalists, bureaucrats and policy makers, business persons, corporate professionals, and academicians with a structured closed-ended questionnaire. Results indicate that Bangladesh is in high risk position in terms of political risk, low risk position in terms of economic risk and very low risk position in terms of financial risk. Compositely, Bangladesh has been found to be a moderately risky country for investment.

Political risk analysis

1992 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 167-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.M. Chermak
Keyword(s):  
Risk Analysis ◽  
Political Risk

Rent-seeking and firm value: Chinese evidence

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 239-272 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sihai Li ◽  
Huiying Wu ◽  
Xinfeng Jiang
Keyword(s):  
Firm Value ◽  
Production Efficiency ◽  
Corporate Philanthropy ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Rent Seeking ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Weak Institutions ◽  
Use Of Resources ◽  
The Government

AbstractWe examine whether engagement in rent-seeking improves firm value in China. Rent-seeking is defined as a firm's use of resources to establish a relationship with the government to obtain government-controlled resources. We incorporate political rents and associated costs into an analytical framework to examine the relationship between rent-seeking and firm value. Using a sample of non-state-owned firms listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange and the Shanghai Stock Exchange from 2007 to 2013, we find evidence of the presence of political rents in the form of government subsidies and evidence of associated costs in the forms of corporate philanthropy and excess management remuneration, which largely explains the insignificant relationship found between rent-seeking and firm value. Our further analysis shows that rent-seeking behavior of firms reduces production efficiency, providing additional evidence to support our thesis that engagement in rent-seeking does not enhance firm value in the Chinese context. In an economy with weak institutions, in particular with weak protection for shareholders, managers and politicians can become rent-seekers and take a considerable share of the economic benefits derived from rent-seeking.

scholarly journals State and Religion in Aceh: The Competences of Religious Education Teachers (Referring to ACT 14, 2005)

Al-Albab ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 83
Author(s):  
Mujiburrahman Mujiburrahman
Keyword(s):  
Religious Education ◽  
Education System ◽  
Government Regulation ◽  
Islamic Education ◽  
Socialization Process ◽  
National Education ◽  
National Education System ◽  
The Government ◽  
State Relations ◽  
To Receive

Studies on religious education teacher’s competences in Aceh could not be separated from studies on state’s intervention toward education. State hegemony occurs in the form of regulation formalization which regulates efforts for improving qualification and competence of teachers. The research showed that the presence of Act No. 14, 2005 and the Government Regulation No. 74, 2008 had been used as legal reference to encourage the improvement of Aceh religious education teachers’ qualification and competence. This is a qualitative study in which triangulation in data collection was used. The data was then collected through documentations, observations, and deep interviews. This work emphasizes that improving teachers’ competences in Islamic education system in Aceh was in accordance to and did not contradict with national education system and moreover strengthen the content of Act No. 14, 1005 and Government Regulation No. 74, 2008. Qualification and competence of religious education teachers in Aceh underwent improvement better than previous term. However, teachers experienced that socialization process and implementation of regulation has yet to receive upmost attention. The study also suggests that religious education teachers’ qualifications and competences will significantly contribute to the development of religious education quality, thus Islamic education transforms intently in national and state relations order.

Property rights for changing forest values: a study of mixed-wood management in Canada

1993 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 688-699 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin K. Luckert
Keyword(s):  
Property Rights ◽  
Government Regulation ◽  
Social Values ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Physical Characteristics ◽  
Private Market ◽  
Forest Values

As new values of forests emerge, property rights must evolve to accommodate these changes. An analytical framework is presented that may be used to assess whether private negotiations between firms may optimally accommodate newly emerging values. A study of mixed-wood management in Canada reveals that private negotiations form a central role in many mixed-wood policies with varying degrees of success. The analytical framework is used to illustrate that successes in mixed-wood policies may be attributed to tenure structures that facilitate trades in property rights, whereas problems may be explained by constrained or absent markets for property rights. Although private market negotiations may accommodate emerging values in the case of mixed-wood management, physical characteristics and social values associated with nontimber resources may prevent such solutions and may therefore require government regulation.

Introduction

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ngok Ma ◽  
Edmund W. Cheng
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Contentious Politics ◽  
Student Movements ◽  
Hybrid Regimes ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
Civil Resistance ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
Hybrid Regime

Analysis of the 2014 Umbrella Movement speaks to three strands of academic literature: contentious politics and space, hybrid regimes and democratization, and social movements in China and Hong Kong. Based mostly on fieldwork conducted during the occupation, this book brings together 14 experts who studied the Umbrella Movement from different theoretical perspectives with different methodologies. The studies in the book analyze the occupation as a spontaneous and emotional contentious action, which made good use of public space and creative passion. They also show how civil resistance was shaped and constrained by the hybrid regime and situate the Hong Kong movement in a broader comparative perspective in reference to past student movements in China and protests in Taiwan and Macau.

scholarly journals Selective Consent and Dissent: Professional Response to Reform in the Post-Crisis Greek NHS

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 262-279 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharon C Bolton ◽  
Vasilis Charalampopoulos ◽  
Lila Skountridaki
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Medical Profession ◽  
Economic Recession ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Welfare States ◽  
Distinct Form ◽  
Clinical Autonomy ◽  
Hospital Doctors ◽  
State Relations

Utilising the sociology of the professions as an analytical framework, the article explores the response of the Greek medical profession to state-imposed managerialism during times of economic recession and socio-political turbulence. It is argued that the case of southern welfare states, permeated by clientelism and corruption, underpins a distinct form of professional–state relations, currently missing from relevant theoretical discussions. Rich qualitative data collected from practising hospital doctors in Greece reveal a willingness to concede elements of clinical autonomy in exchange for the minimisation of the role of a corrupt state in the organisation of the Greek National Health Service.

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