Table Of ContentThe Asian Developmental State
The Asian Developmental State
Reexaminations and New Departures
EditedbyYin-wahChu
THEASIANDEVELOPMENTALSTATE
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thedevelopmentalstatebyprovidingfurthertheoreticalspecifications,
undertakingcriticalappraisalandtheoreticalre-interpretation,assessingits
valuefortheemergingeconomiesofChinaandIndia,andconsideringits
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Contents
ListofFiguresandTables vii
Acknowledgments ix
NotesonContributors xi
Introduction
1 TheAsianDevelopmentalState:IdeasandDebates 1
Yin-wahChu
ComparativePerspective
2 TheDevelopmentalStateinanEraofFinance-Dominated
Accumulation 27
BobJessop
3 BeyondEmbeddedAutonomy:ConceptualizingtheWorkof
DevelopmentalStates 57
FredBlockandMarianNegoita
SouthKoreaandTaiwan
4 EmbeddingtheEconomy:TheStateandExport-Led
DevelopmentinTaiwan 73
MichelleF.Hsieh
5 TowardaPlatformBuilder:TheState’sRoleinTaiwan’s
BiopharmaceuticalIndustry 97
Jenn-hwanWang
6 Democratization,EmergenceoftheKnowledge-Based
Economy,andtheChangingDevelopmentalAlliancesin
SouthKoreaandTaiwan 117
Yin-wahChu
vi ● Contents
7 SouthKoreaaftertheDevelopmentalState 139
IainPirie
ChinaandIndia
8 TheChineseStateandItsRoleinShapingChina’s
InnovationSystem 159
ErikBaark
9 ThePost-SocialistPathoftheDevelopmentalStateinChina 175
AlvinY.So
10 ChangingDevelopmental-nessoftheState—TheCaseof
China 197
RebeccaS.K.Li
11 IsIndiaaDevelopmentalState? 217
RahulMukherji
12 IndianStateandItsCapitalistGrowth:Successofa
DemocracywithMultipleChallenges 237
AnilKumarVaddiraju
Index 253
Figures and Tables
Figures
2.1 Theknowledge-andproduction-basedcanonofeconomic
thought 30
4.1 Exportvalueofselectedindustries(Unit:millionUSdollars) 86
Tables
2.1 Catch-upcompetitiveness 40
6.1 SelectedITfirms:SouthKoreaandTaiwan 129
Acknowledgments
Theideaofthedevelopmentalstate,havingonceservedasamostinfluential
accountoftheeconomicmiraclesinEastAsia,becamediscreditedwiththe
surfacingofthe1997–1998financialcrises,yetreemergedagaintogenerate
insightsintotheeconomicgrowthandtransformationsofmanyemergingor
evendevelopedeconomies.Thepurposeofthiseditedcollectionistopartake
in this debate. It will examine the idea in the broader context of the capi-
talist state, evaluate its continuing applicability among the East Asian cases
of South Korea and Taiwan, and explore its utility for understanding the
emergingeconomiesofChinaandIndia.
This book owes its completion to the kind assistance and generous sup-
portofmanyindividualsandorganizations.Mostfundamental,theChiang
Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange has provided
generous financial support to fund the December 2013 workshop, which
tookplaceattheHongKongBaptistUniversityandservedasapreparatory
meetingforthisvolume.Theparticipantsincludemostcontributingauthors
to this book. Together with Jean-Pierre Cabestan, Yun-chung Chen, Louis
Kuijs,Tak-wingNgo,Ngai-lingSum,andBryanPak-nungWongwhoserved
asdiscussantsintheworkshop,theygeneratedvibrantdiscussionthathelped
tosettheparametersofthedebatesexploredinthepresentwork.Someofthe
contributingauthors,RahulMukherji,IainPirie,andAnilKumarVaddiraju,
inparticular,didnottakepartinthe2013meeting.However,theyweregood
enoughtoacceptmyinvitationtocontributeachaptereventhoughwewere
hardlyacquaintedwitheachother.Altogether,itwasthroughthehardwork
ofthecontributingauthorsthatthisbookhasbeenmadepossible.Toallof
them,Iamgrateful.
I also like to thank Rachel Krause, Veronica Goldstein, and the anony-
mousreviewer(s)atPalgraveMacmillan,whohaveshownkeeninterestinthe
projectfromthestart,andprovidedinsightfulguidanceandpatientsupport
atdifferentstagesofthebook’swritingandproduction.TheResearchIncen-
tives Scheme granted by the Faculty of Social Sciences, Hong Kong Baptist
x ● Acknowledgments
University,providedvitalsupportforcopy-editing.Finally,IalsothankAnna
Lo,ChristieTang,andRossCheungfortheirproficientclericalandadmin-
istrative support. All errors and omissions, needless to say, remain my sole
responsibility.
Yin-wahChu
Contributors
Erik Baark is Professor at the Division of Social Science and the Division
of Environment at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology,
China. He was awarded a PhD from the University of Lund in 1986 and
a Dr Phil from the University of Copenhagen in 1998. He has published
numerous books, including Lightning Wires: Telegraphs and China’s Techno-
logical Modernization 1860–1890, and articles in top international journals
suchasTheChinaQuarterly,ResearchPolicy,andtheInternationalJournalof
TechnologyManagement.Hisresearchinterestsarerelatedtoinnovationsys-
tems and environmental policies in China and other East Asian countries.
E-mail:[email protected]
FredBlockisResearchProfessorofSociologyattheUniversityofCalifornia
atDavis,UnitedStates.HismostrecentbooksareThePowerofMarketFun-
damentalism: Karl Polanyi’s Critique (with Margaret R. Somers) and State of
Innovation: The U.S. Government’s Role in Technology Development (edited
withMatthewR.Keller.)E-mail:fl[email protected]
Yin-wah Chu is Associate Professor of sociology at the Hong Kong Baptist
University, China. Her research interests include the political economy of
development in China, South Korea, and Taiwan, as well as social and
political movements in these societies. Her research papers have been pub-
lished with Economy and Society, International Journal of Urban and Rural
Research, Urban Studies, among others. She is editor of Chinese Capitalisms,
coeditor of East Asia’s New Democracies (coedited with Siu-lun Wong), and
coauthor of The Global Rise of China (co-author with Alvin Y. So). E-mail:
[email protected];[email protected]
Michelle F. Hsieh is currently Assistant Research Fellow at the Insti-
tute of Sociology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan. She received her
PhD (in Sociology) from McGill University, Montreal, Canada. Her
research interests fall within the areas of economic sociology, sociology of
