The rise of interest politics in Bangladesh

Asian Survey

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 704-721

  Kochanek, Stanley A ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTEREST GROUP POLITICS; PATRON-CLIENT RELATIONS; POLITICAL PROCESS; STATE-BUSINESS RELATIONS;

BANGLADESH;

EID: 0030435961     PISSN: 00044687     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2645718     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. Dhaka Courier, December 2, 1994, pp. 8-9.
2. For an excellent analysis of the fall of Ershad and the 1991 elections, see Talukder Maniruzzaman, "The Fall of the Military Dictator: 1991 Elections and the Prospects of Civilian Rule in Bangladesh," Pacific Affairs 65:2 (Summer 1992), pp. 203-224, 211-13.
3. See World Bank, Bangladesh: Implementing Structural Reform (Washington, D.C.: World Bank, 1993), and Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry, "Growth and Development of the Bangladesh Economy 1973-1993," Two Decades of FBCCI 1973-1993 (Dhaka, FBCCI, August 1993).
4. See World Bank, Bangladesh: Implementing Structural Reform (Washington, D.C.: World Bank, 1993), and Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry, "Growth and Development of the Bangladesh Economy 1973-1993," Two Decades of FBCCI 1973-1993 (Dhaka, FBCCI, August 1993).
5. Daily Star (Dhaka), August 23, 1993.
6. Rehman Sobhan, "Growth and Contradictions Within the Bangladesh Bourgeoisie," Journal of Social Studies, no. 9 (July 1980), p. 3.
7. Clare E. Humphrey, Privatization in Bangladesh, a study submitted to the Center for Privatization for the U.S. Agency for International Development, Washington, D.C., 1987, p. 41.
8. Sergei Stepanovich Baranov, East Bengal: Characteristics of Economic Development, 1947-1971, trans. from Russian (Dhaka: Jatiya Sahitya Prakashani, 1986), pp. 84-89.
9. Stanley A. Kochanek, Interest Groups and Development: Business and Politics in Pakistan (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1983,), pp. 92-98.
10. Rehman Sobhan and Muzaffer Ahmad, Public Enterprise in an Intermediate Regime: A Study in the Political Economy of Bangladesh (Dhaka: Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, 1980), pp. 135-42.
11. See Stanley A. Kochanek, Patron-Client Politics and Business in Bangladesh (New Delhi: Sage Publications, 1993), chs. 4 and 5.
12. Annual Report, 1993 (Dhaka: FBCCI, 1993).
13. See Two Decades of FBCCI: 1973-1993.
14. This assessment is based on interviews in Dhaka, August 1993.
15. Two Decades of FBCCI: 1973-1993, pp. 12-17.
16. The following section is based on interviews in Dhaka with convention delegates.
17. Based on interviews with business leaders in Dhaka, August 1994.
18. Dhaka Courier, October 21, 1994, p. 18.
19. Ibid., December 2, 30, 1994.
20. Ibid., December 9, 1994, p. 15.
21. Ibid., March 15 and 22, 1996.
22. Bangladesh Observer, March 31, 1996.