The end of the developmental state?

1. Rethinking the developmental state in the twenty-first century / Michelle Williams -- 2. The developmental state in retrospect and prospect : lessons from India and South Korea / Vivek Chibber -- 3. Liberal globalization, capabilities and the developmental network state in Ireland / Sean O Riain -- 4. Developmental state in transition : the state and the development of Taiwan's biopharmaceutical industry / Jenn-Hwan Wang -- 5. A Chinese developmental state : miracle or mirage? / Ching Kwan Lee -- 6. South Africa's emergent 'green developmental state'? / Vishwas Satgar -- 7. Development in an antidevelopmental state : the market politics of renewable energy in an advanced country and its implications for the environment / Barbara Harriss-White -- 8. The Brazilian social developmental state : a progressive agenda in a (still) conservative political society / Celia Lessa Kerstenetzky -- 9. Politics of democratic decentralization and the developmental state : a study of the Kerala experience / Thomas Isaac -- 10. The developmental state : divergent responses to modern economic theory and the twenty-first-century economy / Peter Evans.

The End of the Developmental State? brings together leading scholars of development to assess the current status of the ""developmental state"" in several developing and transitional economies of South Korea, Taiwan, Ireland, the United Kingdom, China, South Africa, Brazil and India. Has the concept of the developmental state become outmoded? These authors would suggest not. However, they do argue that the historical trajectories of developmental states in Asia, Latin America, Africa and Europe suggest all too clearly that the concept must be re-examined critically and creatively. The range an