Woo-Cumings Meredith (ed.) The Developmental State

Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999. — 368 p. — (Cornell Studies in Political Economy). — ISBN10: 0801485665; ISBN13: 978-0801485664The 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.Introduction: Chalmers Johnson and the Politics of Nationalism and Development. Meredith Woo-Cumings
The Developmental State: Odyssey of a Concept. Chalmers Johnson
Webs with No Spiders, Spiders with No Webs: The Genealogy of the Developmental State. Bruce Cumings
Where Do High-Growth Political Economies Come From? The Japanese Lineage of Korea’s “Developmental State”. Atul Kohli
The Developmental Regime in a Changing World Economy. T. J. Pempel
The Economic Theory of the Developmental State. Hajoon Chang
The Economics of Successful State Intervention in Industrial Transformation. Juhana Vartiainen
The French Developmental State as Myth and Moral Ambition. Michael Loriaux
The Desarrollista State in Brazil and Mexico. Ben Ross Schneider
Embedded Particularism: India’s Failed Developmental State. Ronald J. Herring