Impact Of Political Economy Research Articles

Impact of Political Economy on Economic Strategy Making in India (1947–1991)

What has been the impact of Political Economy and ideational factors such as formative experiences of a State, ideas of strategic thinkers and history on the strategic economic choices made by nation-states? While many authors have used the political economy framework to analyse global and domestic change, it is surprising that not many scholars have adequately explored the impact of political economy and ideational factors on economic strategy making in the Indian context. This article seeks to build on existing research by studying the interaction between political, social, historical, economic and ideational factors to explain India’s economic strategy making in the post-independence period until the 1991 reforms. The article looks at some of the key ‘turning points’ in India’s economic development post-independence (1947–1991) and examines how India’s economic strategies were impacted by a combination of political, economic, social and ideational factors as well as the constant interaction between the domestic and international environments. In doing so, the article seeks to understand the complexity of India’s economic development and to explain why India’s policy-making community took the strategic economic decisions that it took.​

Organizaciones campesinas y defensa de la coca: contribución a una economía política de la acción colectiva

Based on the observation of the resistance movements around the coca leaf in The Convencion province (Peru) and the Tropic of Cochabamba (Bolivia), this contribution explores the impact of political economy to explain variations of mobilization trajectories. By applying the concept of social embeddedness of Karl Polanyi’s to peasant union organizations, we demonstrate that regulatory economic capacity influence the convening power of social organizations for the defense of coca leaf. While the monoculture of coca leaf in the Tropic of Cochabamba allowed to cocalero unions to regulate this economic activity condemned by the Bolivian State, agricultural diversity in La Convencion and regulation of coca leaf markets by the State didn’t allow the peasant federation to regulate economical activity (which were more dependents to the State o markets) with the same intensity. The strong social embeddedness of cocaleros unions in the Tropic of Cochabamba enabled a large mobilization for the defense of coca leaf whereas the dis-embeddedness process of peasant federation in La Convencion have weakened the intensity of social movements.

The Impact of Rural Political Economy on Gender Relations in Islamizing Hausaland, Nigeria

This article departs from general anthropological debates about the nature of gender to focus more narrowly on the impact of political economy and religion on gender relations. It explores the dialectic between commodification, Islamic conversion and gender relations in the Hausa hamlet of Marmara, in northern Nigeria. Despite changes in political economy and in religion, there has been great continuity in gender relations. The article ends with a structural comparison between the Hausa of Marmara and the Giriama of Kaloleni (in Kenya). In this comparison, it appears that political economy can be privileged over religion in the understanding of gender. Over the long term, however, a deeper continuity in local moral concepts structures people's very understanding of political economy, religion and gender.

Shaping the Architecture of the U.S. Information and Communication Technology Architecture: A Political Economic Analysis1

AbstractHow did political economy help shape the revolution in telecommunications and computer networking? We offer three arguments concerning the impact of political economy and policy on the architecture of the U.S. information and communication technology infrastructure. First, it tilted toward an architectural principle of “modularity” that influenced the paths of both the telecom equipment, computer equipment and software, and computer networking markets. Second, it created multiple network infrastructures for telecommunications when other countries either tried to retain a monopoly infrastructure or limit the number of competitors. Third, it propelled a particular architecture for computing (intelligence at the edge of the network) and the full realization of the potential benefits of the Internet. The particular policy mix for competition matters, and this policy mix reflects fundamentals of political economy.

Austerity and Neighborhood Politics in Guadalajara, Mexico

The literature on the politics of the urban poor in Latin America is largely bifurcated into two opposing schools. One of these interprets the political behavior of the poor as clientelist, and the other finds the poor engaging in insurgent political participation. In this paper I argue that examining the political economy of place offers us a way to understand these political behaviors on a continuum, rather than recreating a false dichotomy. I examine the impact of political economy and urbanization on home ownership as a survival strategy of the poor in Guadalajara, Mexico, as well as addressing the impact of both these factors on political behavior. In so doing, I show why a neighborhood on the outskirts of Guadalajara grew increasingly supportive of opposition politics. I further suggest that examining political economy effects on urban politics offers a way to understand the politics of the urban poor in Latin America in a more nuanced fashion.