Vineeta Yadav is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Pennsylvania State University. Her research interests include studying how institutions influence economic development, business-politics, judicial politics and, politics of India, Brazil, and China. She was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Princeton University, New Jersey. She is the author of Political Parties, Business Groups, and Corruption in Developing Countries (2011) which won the 2013 Leon Epstein Outstanding Book Prize by the APSA Political Organizations and Parties Section, the 2012 Rosenthal Prize by the APSA Legislative Studies Section, and received an Honorable Mention for the 2012 best book award from the APSA Comparative Democratization Section. She is also coauthor of Democracy, Electoral Systems, and Judicial Empowerment in Developing Countries (2014).
1. Introduction
2. Geographic concentration and political mobilization by small and medium-sized business firms
3. SME business association, multiparty legislature, and corruption
4. Geographic concentration and national SME association in autocracies: the empirical evidence
5. Empirical analysis of legislative institutions, SME firms, and corruption in autocracies
6. Jordan: institutional change and corruption
7. Malaysia: SME mobilization, and corruption
8. Uganda: the contrarian case
9. Conclusion and implications.
