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Linda M. Weiss is an Australian professor of political science at the University of Sydney, specialising in the international and comparative politics of economic development.
Preface | |
The State is Dead. Long Live the State | |
Introduction | |
The Phenomenon of `State Denial' | |
Scope of the Argument | |
The Book in Outline | |
The Sources of State Capacity | |
Introduction | |
The Problem of State Capacity | |
Approaches to State Capacity | |
Conclusion | |
Transformative Capacity in Evolution: East Asian Developmental States | |
Introduction | |
Institutions and Economic Performance | |
Institutional Capacities for Industrial Transformation | |
The Changing Basis of State Capacity | |
Forms and Dynamics of Governed Interdependence | |
Conclusion: State `Power' in East Asia | |
Limits of the Distributive State: Swedish Model or Global Economy?Introduction | |
Distributive State Capacity | |
The Model Unravels: External Pressures?Undermining from Within | |
The Limits of a Distributive Strategy | |
Explanations of the Swedish Strategy | |
Conclusion | |
Dualistic States: Germany in the Japanese Mirror | |
Introduction | |
The German Case: How `Developmental' is the State?The State in the Rise of German Industrial Power | |
Geopolitical Submergence of Transformative Capacity | |
Private-Sector Governance: A State-informed System of Coordination | |
Postwar Developmentalism: Innovation Without Change | |
Reconstituting Transformative Capacity | |
Dual Capabilities and National Prosperity | |
How `Distributive' is the Japanese State?Conclusion | |
The Limits of Globalization | |
Introduction | |
What does `Globalization' Mean?The Question of Novelty | |
The Question of Magnitude | |
The Question of Distribution | |
The Question of Mobility | |
The Myth of the Powerless State | |
The Extent of Government Powerlessness | |
Convergence Versus Varieties of State Capacity | |
Adaptivity of the State | |
The State as Victim of Midwife of `Globalization' | |
The Emergence of `Catalytic' States | |
Conclusion | |
Notes | |
Bibliography | |
Index | |
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