The Developmental State (Cornell Studies in Political Economy) | Meredith Woo-Cumings

book: The Developmental State (Cornell Studies in Political Economy) | Meredith Woo-Cumings

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	The Developmental State (Cornell Studies in Political Economy) Meredith Woo-Cumings Cornell University Press, 1999 - 346 pages average customer review:based on 1 review view larger image
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Developmental state, n.: the government, motivated by desire for economic advancement, intervenes in industrial affairs. The notion of the developmental state has come under attack in recent years. Critics charge that Japan's success in putting this notion into practice has not been replicated elsewhere, that the concept threatens the purity of freemarket economics, and that its shortcomings have led to financial turmoil in Asia. In this informative and thought-provoking book, a team of distinguished scholars revisits this notion to assess its continuing utility and establish a common vocabulary for debates on these issues. Drawing on new political and economic theories and emphasizing recent events, the authors examine the East Asian experience to show how the developmental state involves a combination of political, bureaucratic, and moneyed influences that shape economic life in the region. Taking as its point of departure Chalmers Johnson's account of the Japanese developmental state, the book explores the interplay of forces that have determined the structure of opportunity in the region. The authors critically address the argument for centralized political involvement in industrial development (with a new contribution by Johnson), describe the historical impact of colonialism and the Cold War, consider new ideas in economics, and compare the experiences of East Asian countries with those of France, Brazil, Mexico, and India.

HA-JOON CHANG, University of Cambridge BRUCE CUMINGS, University of Chicago CHALMERS JOHNSON, Japan Policy Research Institute, Cardiff, California RON J. HERRING, Cornell University ATUL KOHLI, Princeton University MICHAEL LORIAUX, Northwestern University T. J. PEMPEL, University of Washington BEN ROSS SCHNEIDER, Northwestern University JUHANA VARTIAINEN, Labour Institute for Economic Research, Helsinki, Finland MEREDITH WOO-CUMINGS, Northwestern University

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Excellent collection of developmental litarature

Grand theory tends to be disorderly. This book has re-examined the concept of the developmental state that has been rather messy, and successfully shown the dangers and usefulness of the concept in analysing/explaining the relationship between economic growth and political institution.

One of the successes of this collection would be the application of the developmental state model to a Western Democracy, France (A Chapter by M. Loriaux). The comparison between Northeast Asia and Franch is stimulating, and poses many questions to the technocratic mode of policy-making in globalising economies.

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