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Pakistan: State Autonomy, Extraction, and Elite Capture—A Theoretical Configuration

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  • Muhammad Ashfaq Ahmed

    (Member of Pakistan Inland Revenue Service, and is currently posted as Commissioner IRS, Regional Tax Office, Rawalpindi)

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Management of actions and interest groups has historically been sovereign’s existentialist imperative. The paper revitalizes philosophical state autonomy debate and then narrows down its focus to capture extractive antics of as erratic a state as Pakistan. A typology of factions – captioned as Elites – operative in extractive realm of Pakistan is developed to round them in theory, identify their properties, and lay bare mechanics of intra-elite and elite-non-elite transactions. The paper seminally develops the rational actor dilemma confronting Pakistani elites and identifies the modes through which the dilemma plausibly resolves itself. The transactional engagement between Pakistan’s internal and external rational actors is dissected to theorize that Pakistan essentially is an equilibrium consensus subsistence state thereby opening up vast vistas for future research. The paper concludes with the glum finding that Pakistan in its current essence and manifestation is fundamentally a captive state – beholden to elites of Pakistan.

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  • Muhammad Ashfaq Ahmed, 2017. "Pakistan: State Autonomy, Extraction, and Elite Capture—A Theoretical Configuration," The Pakistan Development Review, Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, vol. 56(2), pages 127-162.
    • Handle: RePEc:pid:journl:v:56:y:2017:i:2:p:127-162
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