State Capacity in East Asia China, Taian, Vietnam, and Japan [Hardcover]

This book examines states and state capacity in four countries that have experienced rapid economic growth over several decades, China, Japan, Taiwan, and Vietnam It argues that while modern market forces and transnational corporations exert tremendous pressures, states still matter. The capacity of the East Asian state to adapt and develop new institutions is empirically illustrated as well as theoretically contextualized.

1. Introduction: State capacity in East Asia,Kjeld Erik Br?dsgaard and Susan Young
2. The weak state of Japan,Sam K. Steffensen
3. State and economy: some observations and inferences from the Japanese experience,Anil Khosla
4. Institutionalizing post-war Japanese political economy: industrial policy revisited,Ikuo Kume
5. The waning of the Kuomintang state on Taiwan,Thomas B. Gold
6. State capacity in an Asian democracy: the example of Taiwan,J?rgen Domes
7. State capacity in the ROC and PRC: a comparative perspective,An-chia Wu
8. When states unravel: how China's cadres shaped Cultural Revolution politics,Andrew G. Walder
9. State capacity and social control in China,B?rge Bakken
10. Informalization and growth: the political economy of local enterprises,Kjeld Erik Br?dsgaard and Kamal Sheel
11. What the Vietnamese state can do,Stein T?nnesson
12. China and Vietnam: viable socialism in a market economy,David E. Apter