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Systemic Vulnerability and the Origins of Developmental States: Northeast and Southeast Asia in Comparative Perspective

Doner, Richard F., Ritchie, Bryan K., Slater, Dan·2005·International Organization
DOI 10.1017/s0020818305050113
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Scholars of development have learned a great deal about what economic institutions do, but much less about the origins of such arrangements. This article introduces and assesses a new political explanation for the origins of “developmental states”—organizational complexes in which expert and coherent bureaucratic agencies collaborate with organized private sectors to spur national economic transformation. Conventional wisdom holds that developmental states in South Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore result from “state autonomy,” especially from popular pressures. We argue that these states' impressive capacities actually emerged from the challenges of delivering side payments to restive popular sectors under conditions of extreme geopolitical insecurity and severe resource constraints. Such an interactive condition of “systemic vulnerability” never confronted ruling elites in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, or Thailand—allowing them to uphold political coalitions, and hence to retain power, with much less ambitious state-building efforts.

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Authors
Doner, R. F., Ritchie, B. K., & Slater, D.
Venue
International Organization
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Published
2005-04
Volume
59
Issue
02
Pages
327-361
ISSN
  • 0020-8183 (ISSN-L)
  • 1531-5088
DOI
10.1017/s0020818305050113
OpenAlex
W2132317630
Cited by
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References
60
FWCI
65.30
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
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