BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//EuroSEAS 2024//EN X-WR-CALNAME:EuroSEAS 2024 BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Amsterdam X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Amsterdam BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 DTSTART:19700329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 DTSTART:19701025T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240919T040600 UID:euroseas-2024-politics-business-collusion-in-indonesia-and-beyond-1 SUMMARY:Politics-Business Collusion in Indonesia and beyond (1) LOCATION:REC A2.15 DESCRIPTION:While harboring diverse political regimes, a striking commonali ty of countries across Southeast Asia is the prevalence of informal exchang e relations between political and economic elites. Employing a range for te rms to describe this phenomenon – from crony capitalism and oligarchy to bu siness-politics collusion - scholars from across the region regularly docum ent how business actors provide campaign funds and other forms of support t o politicians in exchange for privileged access to economic opportunities. These studies highlight that such collusive exchanges have considerable neg ative impacts on governance and politics across the region, from weakening state regulatory capacity, undermining natural resource management and boos ting corruption, to fostering political inequality, weakening civil society and, more generally, skewing governance towards the interests of wealthy e lites.\nCollusive business-politics interaction has a long history in the r egion. Yet the forms and intensity of the interaction between the worlds of business and politics is evolving, in response to both economic developmen t and changing political contexts. In some countries increasingly expensive election campaigns are making politics even more oligarchic, while the con tinuing importance of state-dependent economic sectors – such as natural re source extraction and real estate – is also deepening politics-business col lusion. In this panel we aim to take stock of recent developments and asses s the state of the field, with a particular focus on Indonesia. Bringing to gether researchers from different disciplines focusing on forms of business -politics collusion in different sectors, this panel aims to generate discu ssion about the state of knowledge about the evolving character of business -politics interaction, as well as the challenge of conceptualizing this int eraction. What do we know of its causes, forms and consequences of business -state collusion? What is the character and effectiveness of efforts to cur tail these exchange relationships? And how might politics-business collusio n be studied comparatively? URL:https://euroseas2024.org/panels/politics-business-collusion-in-indonesia-and-beyond DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20240725T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20240725T103000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240919T040600 UID:euroseas-2024-politics-business-collusion-in-indonesia-and-beyond-2 SUMMARY:Politics-Business Collusion in Indonesia and beyond (2) LOCATION:REC A2.15 DESCRIPTION:While harboring diverse political regimes, a striking commonali ty of countries across Southeast Asia is the prevalence of informal exchang e relations between political and economic elites. Employing a range for te rms to describe this phenomenon – from crony capitalism and oligarchy to bu siness-politics collusion - scholars from across the region regularly docum ent how business actors provide campaign funds and other forms of support t o politicians in exchange for privileged access to economic opportunities. These studies highlight that such collusive exchanges have considerable neg ative impacts on governance and politics across the region, from weakening state regulatory capacity, undermining natural resource management and boos ting corruption, to fostering political inequality, weakening civil society and, more generally, skewing governance towards the interests of wealthy e lites.\nCollusive business-politics interaction has a long history in the r egion. Yet the forms and intensity of the interaction between the worlds of business and politics is evolving, in response to both economic developmen t and changing political contexts. In some countries increasingly expensive election campaigns are making politics even more oligarchic, while the con tinuing importance of state-dependent economic sectors – such as natural re source extraction and real estate – is also deepening politics-business col lusion. In this panel we aim to take stock of recent developments and asses s the state of the field, with a particular focus on Indonesia. Bringing to gether researchers from different disciplines focusing on forms of business -politics collusion in different sectors, this panel aims to generate discu ssion about the state of knowledge about the evolving character of business -politics interaction, as well as the challenge of conceptualizing this int eraction. What do we know of its causes, forms and consequences of business -state collusion? What is the character and effectiveness of efforts to cur tail these exchange relationships? And how might politics-business collusio n be studied comparatively? URL:https://euroseas2024.org/panels/politics-business-collusion-in-indonesia-and-beyond DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20240725T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20240725T123000 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR