State Capacity in East Asia China, Taiwan,

This book examines states and state capacity in four countries that have experienced rapid economic growth over several decades, China, Japan, Taiwan, and Vietnam It argues that while modern market forces and transnational corporations exert tremendous pressures, states still matter. The capacity of the East Asian state to adapt and develop new institutions is empirically illustrated as well as theoretically contextualized.

Notes on Contributors

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Introduction: State Capacity in East Asia

1

(16)

Kjeld Erik Brodsgaard

Susan Young

The Weak State of Japan

17

(20)

Sam K. Steffensen

State and Economy: Some Observations and Inferences from the Japanese Experience

37

(24)

Anil Khosla

Institutionalizing Post-war Japanese Political Economy: Industrial Policy Revisited

61

(23)

Ikuo Kume

The Waning of the Kuomintang State on Taiwan

84

(30)

Thomas B. Gold

State Capacity in an Asian Democracy: The Example of Taiwan

114

(17)

Jurgen Domes

State Capacity in the RoC and PRC: A Comparative Perspective

131

(26)

An-Chia Wu

When States Unravel: How China's Cadres Shaped Cultural Revolution Politics

157

(28)

Andrew G. Walder

State Capacity and Social Control in China

185

(18)

Borge Bakken

Informalization and Growth: The Political Economy of Local Enterprises

203

(33)

Kjeld Erik Brodsgaard

Kamal Sheel

The Layered State of Vietnam

236

(33)

Stein Tonnesson

China and Vietnam: Viable Socialism in a Market Economy

269

(38)

David E. Apter

Index

307

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State Capacity in East Asia China, Taiwan, Vietnam, and Japan

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