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born 1952 United States

John L. Campbell (born 1952) is an American political scientist, and Professor of Sociology at Dartmouth College, and Professor of Political Economy at the Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, working in the fields of economic, political, and comparative sociology, globalization, comparative political economy and institutional analysis.

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Property rights define the institutional basis of power relations in production, exchange and accumulation, rather than just the relationship of actors to property. The ability to manipulate property rights affords the state important leverage over the balance of power among actors in the economy.

For many years, attention in both public and intellectual fields was concentrated on the benefits of civil society. However, with the demand for greater state regulation of the economy and the increasing realisation that states of the fourth world will never advance without the enforcement of a rule of law, the tenor of debate is now changing.

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