Overview
- Revises the concept of developmental state to understand the politics of emerging economy where society is experiencing various transformation
- Highlights the usage of developmental state to understand structural transformation led by political leadership, institutional reform and/or rapid economic growth
- Argues that the concept of developmental state never dies because of the significance of political dimensions of rapid economic growth
Part of the book series: Emerging-Economy State and International Policy Studies (EESIPS)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This open access book modifies and revitalizes the concept of the ‘developmental state’ to understand the politics of emerging economy through nuanced analysis on the roles of human agency in the context of structural transformation. In other words, there is a revived interest in the ‘developmental state’ concept. The nature of the ‘emerging state’ is characterized by its attitude toward economic development and industrialization. Emerging states have engaged in the promotion of agriculture, trade, and industry and played a transformative role to pursue a certain path of economic development. Their success has cast doubt about the principle of laissez faire among the people in the developing world. This doubt, together with the progress of democratization, has prompted policymakers to discover when and how economic policies should deviate from laissez faire, what prevents political leaders and state institutions from being captured by vested interests, and what induce them to driveeconomic development. This book offers both historical and contemporary case studies from Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Rwanda. They illustrate how institutions are designed to be developmental, how political coalitions are formed to be growth-oriented, and how technocratic agencies are embedded in a network of business organizations as a part of their efforts for state building.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Developmental State Building
Book Subtitle: The Politics of Emerging Economies
Editors: Yusuke Takagi, Veerayooth Kanchoochat, Tetsushi Sonobe
Series Title: Emerging-Economy State and International Policy Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2904-3
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-2903-6Published: 31 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-2904-3Published: 18 January 2019
Series ISSN: 2524-5023
Series E-ISSN: 2524-5031
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 185
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 26 illustrations in colour
Topics: Economic Policy, Economic History, Development Economics, African Politics, Asian Politics, Development Policy