Dewit, Gerda
(2001)
Building the Developmental State:
Achieving Economic Growth Through
Co-operative Solutions: A Comment on
Bringing Politics Back In.
Journal of Development Studies, 38.
pp. 147-151.
ISSN 0022-0388
Abstract
The developmental state, able to promote economic development as in
Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan and Japan, has generally been seen largely
or even wholly as a matter of political acumen and a competent bureaucracy.
While our comment on a recent article in this Journal [Leftwich, 1995] does
not dispute the importance of these fundamentally political attributes, its
purpose is to draw attention to a hitherto little considered requirement in the
creation of a developmental state.1 We use the insights of game theory to
emphasise the necessity for economic complementarily between state and
private sector (together, civil society) and in this the prime importance of
credibility and reputation building, if even the most politically astute
developmental state is to succeed. In the absence of a command economy
or dominating degree of state capitalism, economic policies sufficiently
credible to elicit private sector investment should be added to the
components identified as important to the developmental state: an
autonomous, technically competent developmental elite and nonchallenging,
or even subordinate, civil society.
| Item Type: |
Article
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| Keywords: |
Building; Developmental State;
Achieving; Economic Growth;
Co-operative Solutions; Politics; |
| Academic Unit: |
Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics, Finance and Accounting |
| Item ID: |
8445 |
| Identification Number: |
https://doi.org/10.1080/00220380412331322221 |
| Depositing User: |
Gerda Dewit
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| Date Deposited: |
12 Jul 2017 11:53 |
| Journal or Publication Title: |
Journal of Development Studies |
| Publisher: |
Taylor & Francis |
| Refereed: |
Yes |
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