The Democratic Developmental State: North-South Perspectives (CROP International Poverty Studies #4)

Synopsis

The concept of a democratic developmental state is part of the current development discourse advocated by international aid agencies, deliberated on by academics, and embraced by policymakers 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.This 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, 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. The 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.

Copyright:

2018

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Publisher Quality

Book Size:

246 Pages

ISBN-13:

9783838269153

Related ISBNs:

9783838210452

Publisher:

Ibidem Press

Date of Addition:

08/04/20

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Ibidem-verlag

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

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No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Business and Finance, Social Studies, Politics and Government

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Edited by:

Chris Tapscott

Edited by:

Tor Halvorsen

Edited by:

Teresita Cruz-Del Rosario