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Review Article: Don't Discard State Autonomy: Revisiting the East Asian Experience of Development

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Rapid East Asian economic growth was commonly credited to the existence of strong, autonomous developmental states. Subsequently a new ‘institutionalist’ school of thought emerged which argued that an effective state must be connected to civil society, not autonomous from it, and which reinterpreted East Asian development in these terms. This paper is a critical reappraisal of the institutionalist school. The evidence of state autonomy (seen in relativistic rather than absolute, either‐or terms) in East Asia's recent history is too great to be ignored. And since some institutionalists themselves acknowledge autonomy as a necessary foundation for developmentally effective relationships with civil society, we should recognize autonomy as a potentially important element of state capacity. State autonomy remains an important analytical concept that deserves the attention of scholars.

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  • Charles Polidano, 2001. "Review Article: Don't Discard State Autonomy: Revisiting the East Asian Experience of Development," Political Studies, Political Studies Association, vol. 49(3), pages 513-527, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:polstu:v:49:y:2001:i:3:p:513-527
    DOI: 10.1111/1467-9248.00324
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    1. Beeson, Mark & Pham, Hung Hung, 2012. "Developmentalism with Vietnamese Characteristics: The Persistence of State-led Development in East Asia," OSF Preprints s4zeu, Center for Open Science.
    2. Lodge, Martin & Stirton, Lindsay, 2002. "Globalisation and Regulatory Autonomy in Small Developing States: The Case of Jamaican Telecommunications Reform," Centre on Regulation and Competition (CRC) Working papers 30669, University of Manchester, Institute for Development Policy and Management (IDPM).
    3. Núñez Rodríguez, Gaspar & Romero Tellaeche, José Antonio, 2020. "Nationalism and development: an alternative for Mexico," Revista CEPAL, Naciones Unidas Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), August.

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