Developmental Politics in Transition: The Neoliberal Era and Beyond

by C. Kyung-Sup (Editor), B. Fine (Editor), L. Weiss (Editor)

Overview

Blending theory and case studies, this volume explores a vitally important and topical aspect of developmentalism, which remains a focal point for scholarly and policy debates around democracy and social development in the global political economy. Includes case studies from China, Vietnam, India, Brazil, Uganda, South Korea, Ireland, Australia.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349333325
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/2012
Series:	International Political Economy Series
Edition description:	1st ed. 2012
Pages:	329
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

PETER ABRAHAMSON Associate Professor of Sociology at University of Copenhagen, Denmark C.P. CHANDRASEKHAR Professor at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India CHANG HA-JOON Reader in Economics at the University of Cambridge, UK YIN-WAH CHU Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Hong Kong Baptist University, China JULIUS KIIZA Associate Professor of Political Economy and Development at Makerere University, Uganda TAT YAN KONG Reader (Associate Professor) in Comparative Politics and Development Studies at SOAS, University of London, UK KWON HYEONG-KI is an associate professor of Political Science at Seoul National University, South Korea PIETRO MASINA Associate Professor of Political Economy of Development at the University of Naples 'L'Orientale', Italy ALFREDO SAAD-FILHO Professor of Political Economy at SOAS, University of London, UK ALVIN Y. SO Chair Professor of Social Science Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China ELIZABETH THURBON Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of New South Wales, Australia.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Neoliberalism and Developmental Politics in Perspective; C.Kyung-Sup , L.Weiss B.Fine PART I: DEVELOPMENTAL POLITICS AND NEOLIBERALISM: CRITICAL ISSUES The Myth of the Neoliberal State; L.Weiss Kicking Away the Ladder: Neoliberalism and the 'Real' History of Capitalism; C.Ha-Joon Neo-Liberalism in Retrospect? – It's Financialisation, Stupid; B.Fine Predicaments of Neoliberalism in the Post-Developmental Liberal Context; C.Kyung-Sup European Welfare States: Neoliberal Retrenchment, Developmental Reinforcement, or Plural Evolutions; P.Abrahamson PART II: DEVELOPMENTAL POLITICS AND NEOLIBERALISM IN DEVELOPING POLITICAL ECONOMIES Neoliberalism, Democracy and Development Policy in Brazil; A.Saad-Filho From Dirgisme to Neoliberalism: Aspects of the Political Economy of the Transition in India; C.P.Chandrasekhar The Transition from Neoliberalism to State Neoliberalism in China at the Turn of the 21st Century; A.Y.So  & Y.Chu Vietnam between Developmental State and Neoliberalism: The Case of the Industrial Sector; P.Masina New Developmentalism in the Old Wineskin of Neoliberalism in Uganda; J.Kiiza PART III: DEVELOPMENTAL POLITICS AND NEOLIBERALISM IN ADVANCED POLITICAL ECONOMIES Neoliberal Restructuring in South Korea Before and After the Crisis; T.Y.Kong The Irish Social Partnership Model: From Growth Promotion to Crisis Management?; K.Hyeong-ki From Developmentalism to Neoliberalism and Back Again? Governing the Market in Australia from the 1980s to the Present; E.Thurbon PART IV: CONCLUSION AND PROSPECT Developmental Politics beyond the Neoliberal Era; B.Fine  & C.Kyung-Sup

Editorial Reviews

"This sober intellectual project is empirically packed and theoretically reflective in its insistence that '[e]ach system should be examined by reference to the structures, agencies, processes, power, and conflicts that are exercised in material provision'. Academics, students and practitioners of peacebuilding should find much of interest and relevance in its book. For me, its key contribution lies in how it debunks a number of central myths about neoliberalism." - Mandy Turner, Peacebuilding

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