What Makes Successful Business Lobbies? Business Associations and the Rentier State in Jordan and Kuwait

Whether neoliberal or statist oriented, most social scientists concur that business-state relations are key variables in a developing country's economic performance.1 Recent studies of business-state relations in the developing world derive from analysis of the developmental Asian state and emphasize bureaucratic insulation and autonomy.2 Middle East comparativists have employed a similar top-down method that stresses the transformative effects...