The State as Entrepreneur from CDC to CDIC
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The situation of the Canada Development Corporation (CDC) is analyzed in light of its position as a joint stock company and public policy instrument. Performance is measured with three criteria contributions to varied Canadian industrial development, the establishment of a joint stock company as a form of private and public cooperation, and the provision of income returns to the government. CDC problems are associated with the distancing from the major shareholder, the state, while trying to maintain its position with the investment community. The establishment of the Canada Development Investment Corporation (CDIC), the identification of possible functions, and a comparative analysis of two other models of a state holding company are reviewed. CDIC has more tractability than CDC, but CDIC does not appear promising in the foreseeable future.
Publication Name: Canadian Public Administration
Subject: Government
ISSN: 0008-4840
Year: 1983
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The Algerian state and the challenge of democracy
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Western observers of Algerian politics have imposed certain conceptual frameworks which are alien to Algeria in their analyses, and generally failed to account for the particular forces driving Algerian politics. Politics has been simplistically regarded as driven by economic determinism, and the National Liberation Front has been treated as though it were a party rather than an organ of the state. The analogy with Iran is also false because the Algerian state is not as completely antagonistic toward Islam as the Iranian monarchy was, and is regarded as legitimate by nationalists.
Publication Name: Government and Opposition
Subject: Government
ISSN: 0017-257X
Year: 1992
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Conjectures on the nation-state
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Nationalism has been aroused by the necessary conditions of statehood in ways that were beneficial in a multi-polar world that managed the scope and influence of nationalism. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the nation-state has become an outmoded approach to both domestic and international relations. This is part of the reason former Soviet republics are in such turmoil, there is no longer an international community of nation-states to exert influence and limit the power of the individual states.
Publication Name: Government and Opposition
Subject: Government
ISSN: 0017-257X
Year: 1995
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