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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797101403321

Titolo

The democratic developmental state : North-South perspectives / / Chris Tapscott, Tor Halvorsen, Teresita Cruz-Del Rosario (editors)

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stuttgart, Germany : , : Ibidem-Verlag, , [2018]

©2018

ISBN

3-8382-6915-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (246 pages) : illustrations

Collana

CROP international poverty studies ; ; 4

Disciplina

338.90091724

Soggetti

Economic development projects - Developing countries

Developing countries

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Nota di contenuto

Building the democratic development state : lessons from East Asia -- The carrot and the stick of Ethiopian "democratic developmentalism" : ideological, legal, and policy frameworks -- The establishment of a democratic development local state in South Africa : between rhetoric and reality -- The "development" of "welfare" state of South Africa -- The rise and fall of democratic neo-developmentalism in Brazil -- New social democracy in the South? Reflection from India, Indonesia, and Scandinavia in comparative perspective -- On the sociocultural foundations of democratic capitalism : experiences from the Norwegian case -- Democratic development state or competition state? Toward the new constitution of neoliberal hegemony -- Democracy, development, and the disciplining of capital.

Sommario/riassunto

The idea of a democratic developmental state forms part of the current development discourse advocated by international aid agencies, deliberated on by academics, and embraced by policy makers in many emerging economies in the global South. What is noticeable in this discourse is how little attention has been paid to a discussion of the essence of a democratic developmental state, and much of what passes for theory is little more than policy speak and political rhetoric.0This volume fills a gap in the literature on the democratic developmental state. Analyzing the different approaches to the implementation of democratic developmental states in various countries in the South, it



evaluates the extent to which these are merely replicating the central tenets of the East Asian model of the developmental state or if they are succeeding in their attempts to establish a new and more inclusive conceptualization of the state. In particular, the authors scrutinize to what degree the attempts to build a democratic developmental state may be distorted by the imperatives of neoliberalism.0The volume broadens the understanding of the Nordic model of a democratic developmental state and shows how it represents an additional, and perhaps contending understanding of the developmental state derived from the East Asian experience.