While state sovereignty and the strength of the individual city-state elites remain strongly rooted in the Central American political tradition, there continues to be a strong residue of sympathy for Central American reunification.
Drawing on the negotiation records of the IWT, archival materials relating to Pakistani river development during the 1960s, and fieldwork conducted in Pakistan in 2012, this paper argues that Cold War hydropolitics are best analyzed through the cultural and economic interactions of asymmetrically empowered developmentalist state elites at multiple scales.
The Turkish state elite was ready to speed up the flow of history from above.
This has created a political dynamic in which it is possible for Trump to portray himself as the anti-establishment figure who voices the concerns of the little guy in the states the elite fly over as they travel from coast to coast.
As the state-crime elites assumed dominant positions in society, their influence, as seen from the results, was widespread and constructive.
In understanding the ways of these powerful state-crime elites, it becomes apparent that the glorious transformation of the casino-cities was no accident; rather, it was engineered.
RQ.2: What influence did the state-crime elites have on the development of their respective gaming hubs; Stanley Ho on Macao and Moe Dalitz on Las Vegas?
Kaufmann (1999) Control of corruption The extent to which public power is not exercised for private gain, including both petty and grand forms of corruption, as well as "capture" of the state by elites and private interests.
In regards to the similarities in their strategies, both state-crime elites used bridging social capital and linking social capital to accumulate money and power and to evade allegations.
The second is "control of corruption" and measures the extent to which public power is not exercised for private gain, including both petty and grand forms of corruption, as well as "capture" of the state by elites and private interests.
