The Political and Economic Transition in East Asia: Strong Market, Weakening State

by Xiaoming Huang

Overview

The book examines the political and economic developments in East Asia since the end of the Cold War in an attempt to identify a broad pattern of transition, particularly in terms of the reshaping of the state's relations with forces and institutions in economy, politics and domestic- international interactions. The chapters are organised into three parts: I: The state in the new economy; II: The state in the new politics; III: The state in the new global environment. The contributors find a general pattern of the state's withdrawal from these three areas. But it is not simply that the market takes over, as some envisaged. Instead, the transition is moving towards a set of governance-producing arrangements in which the role of both the market and the state are appreciated. The book concludes that a more sophisticated approach is needed to the problems of development vs. governance, the state vs. the market, and global dynamics vs. national interests, for a better understanding of the dynamic transition and the consequent new political economy in East Asia.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781136114588
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/05/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	304
File size:	581 KB

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Xiaoming Huang

Table of Contents

Preface IntroductionBetween the State and the Market: The Problem of Transition in East AsiaXiaoming Huang Part I The New Market Conditions Market Liberalisation and the Problem of Governance in South KoreaKwan S. Kim Insitutional Adaptation Under Pressure: China's Changing Economic EnvironmentShiping Zheng Part II The New Political ConditionsChina's Aimless StatePeter Harris The Japanese State: Surviving Neoliberal Political EconomySeiji Endo Part III The New State-Market Nexus Contested State and Competitive State: Managing the Economy in a Democratic TaiwanXiaoming Huang Macroeconomic Dilemmas and Alternative State Strategies: The Post-Developmental State of TaiwanStephen P. Green Part IV The New Global Conditions Global Dynamics and the Insitutional Flaws of East Asian GovernanceChristopher Lingle Global Capitalism in Crisis: The East Asian Problem in a Wider ContextHarry D. Shutt Conclusion Beyond the State and the Market: The Primacy of Human InterestXiaoming Huang AppendixesBibliographyIndex

Editorial Reviews

Political science, economics, and Asian studies are among the disciplines represented by the contributors, who expand their papers delivered at a summer 1998 convention in Noordwijk, the Netherlands into 10 essays. Rather than repeat the conventional observation that the relationship between the market and the state holds the key to problems in the Asian model of development, they delve into the ambiguity of that relationship, and find there even more fundamental forces that have been shaping the relationship itself. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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'This book provided a useful snapshot of how the debate is being developed in the case of East Asia.' - Contemporary Southeast Asia

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