The End of the Developmental State?

Michelle Williams

• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN: 9780415854825
• eBook ISBN: 9781134657049
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Geography
• Index: Geography

The End of the Developmental State? brings together leading scholars of development to assess the current status of the "developmental state" in several developing and transitional economies of South Korea, Taiwan, Ireland, the United Kingdom, China, South Africa, Brazil and India. Has the concept of the developmental state become outmoded? These authors would suggest not. However, they do argue that the historical trajectories of developmental states in Asia, Latin America, Africa and Europe suggest all too clearly that the concept must be re-examined critically and creatively. The range and diversity of their positions and their rejection of stale programmatic positions from the past will revitalize the debate on the role of the state in social and economic transformation in the twenty-first century. By bringing together careful comparative analyses of national cases, in both the Global North and South, the volume highlights pivotal conditions – economic restructuring, domestic politics, epistemic shifts and ecological limits – that are forcing revision of the goals and strategies of developmental states and suggests that states that ignore these new conditions will indeed see the "end of the developmental state".

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Introduction
• Acknowledgments
• Acronyms
• 1. Rethinking the Developmental State in the Twenty-First Century
• 2. The Developmental State in Retrospect and Prospect: Lessons from India and South Korea
• 3. Liberal Globalization, Capabilities and the Developmental Network State in Ireland
• 4. Developmental State in Transition: The State and the Development of Taiwan’s Biopharmaceutical Industry
• 5. A Chinese Developmental State: Miracle or Mirage?
• 6. South Africa’s Emergent ‘Green Developmental State’?
• 7. Development in an Antidevelopmental State: The Market Politics of Renewable Energy in an Advanced Country and Its Implications for the Environment
• 8. The Brazilian Social Developmental State: A Progressive Agenda in a (Still) Conservative Political Society
• 9. Politics of Democratic Decentralization and the Developmental State: A Study of the Kerala Experience
• 10. The Developmental State: Divergent Responses to Modern Economic Theory and the Twenty-First-Century Economy
• Contributorss
• Index