Workshop: How to tackle the different faces of state capture

State capture, understood as the phenomenon by which vested interests influence and manipulate the policy making process to its advantage, is a concept that was initially coined in the early 90’s when the privatisation process in Eastern Europe was bent to favour oligarchs’ interests. Since then, the concept has been broadened to include different channels through which actors influence policymakers, to include the fact that both legal and illegal entities are interested in capturing the state, and to include the fact that the intended goal goes beyond obtaining economic benefits –actors seek among many others judicial and administrative benefits -, and to include the fact that the focus of the capturing process is not exclusively the legislative branch of the government.

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