Captured by business? Romanian market governance and the new economic elite

Business and Politics

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Young, Patricia T ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Corruption; Economic elite; Institutional reform; Market governance; Romania; State capture

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952021267     PISSN: 13695258     EISSN: 14693569     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1469-3569.1255     Document Type: Article

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