Politics of Order in Informal Markets - How the State Shapes Private Governance

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. Market Associations: An Overview; 3. Conducting a Representative Survey of Informal Traders; 4. A Calm Sea Does Not Make a Good Sailor: A Theory of Private Good Governance; 5. Government Threats and Group Leader Strength; 6. Business is Secret: Government Threats and Within-Group Competition; 7. Private Groups in Comparative Perspective; A. Appendix to Chapter 2 - Market Associations: An Overview; B. Appendix to Chapter 3 - Conducting a Representative Survey of Informal Traders; C. Appendix to Chapter 4 - A Calm Sea Does Not Make a Good Sailor - A Theory of Private Good Governance; D. Appendix to Chapter 6 - Government Threats and Within-Group Competition; E. Appendix to Chapter 7 - Private Groups in Comparative Perspective.

About the author

Shelby Grossman is a Research Scholar at the Stanford Internet Observatory. She holds a Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University.

Product details

• Authors: Shelby Grossman, Shelby (Stanford University Grossman
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.06.2021
• EAN: 9781108833493
• ISBN: 978-1-108-83349-3
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Economics, Choice, and Society
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy, Political science & theory, Political Economy, urban economics, Political science and theory, Regional / urban economics