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Record Nr.

UNINA9910449782103321

Titolo

Asian states : beyond the developmental perspective / / edited by Richard Boyd and Tak-Wing Ngo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : RoutledgeCurzon, , 2005

ISBN

1-134-28116-1

1-280-14184-0

0-203-30823-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Collana

Politics in Asia series

Altri autori (Persone)

BoydRichard

NgoTak-Wing <1962->

Disciplina

330.95

Soggetti

State, The

Electronic books.

East Asia Economic policy

East Asia Economic conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-218) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 Emancipating the political economy of Asia from the growth paradigm; 2 A regulationist and state theoretical analysis; 3 The state market condominium approach; 4 The paradox of weak power and strong authority in the Japanese state; 5 The political bases of episodic agency in the Taiwan state; 6 Local state structure and developmental incentives in China; 7 Social contradictions of the Korean state; 8 The political economy of the Asian welfare state; 9 Transplanting the neoliberal state in Southeast Asia; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

A team of international leading experts provide a much needed re-examination of the theoretical claims and the empirical foundation of developmental state theory. Asian States argues that regardless of the merits of the developmental state as an explanation of economic growth, it falls far short of being an adequate theory of the state in Asia. The contributors critically review claims about agency, state-society and state-market relations that shape developmental projects. It broadens the analysis of state involvement in developmental projects



and considers the variety of political a