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Jung, Joo-Youn.

When noliberal economies meet globalization: The transformation of interventionist states in East Asia.

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Title/Author:	When noliberal economies meet globalization: The transformation of interventionist states in East Asia.
Author:	Jung, Joo-Youn.
Description:	201 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Jean C. Oi.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-09, Section: A, page: 3569.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International67-09A.
Subject:	Political Science, General.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3235243
ISBN:	9780542894442

When noliberal economies meet globalization: The transformation of interventionist states in East Asia.
Jung, Joo-Youn.

When noliberal economies meet globalization: The transformation of interventionist states in East Asia. - 201 p.

Adviser: Jean C. Oi.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2006.

How does institutional transformation of an interventionist state take place in the era of neoliberal economic globalization? This dissertation analyzes the politics of central state economic agency reform in the East Asian state-led nonliberal economies, by focusing on South Korea and China and using Japan as the secondary case. These countries' "pilot economic agencies," once coordinators of the old developmental policy regime, have experienced dramatic dismemberment or closure since the 1990s. On the surface, the decline of powerful agencies that used to represent the state-led development era seems to manifest the penetrating power of neoliberal economic globalization even over the interventionist states in the East Asian nonliberal economies that have long defied the laissez-faire capitalist development model. This dissertation asks why and how specific new bureaucratic institutional choices were made, at a critical juncture of economic transition that challenges the raison d'etre of the interventionist state. To answer this question, this dissertation disaggregates the process of bureaucratic reform policy-making and identifies key actors. It analyzes how the politics of state institutional reform takes place between these actors and how the effects of economic globalization come into play in the reform policy-making process.

ISBN: 9780542894442Subjects--Topical Terms:

212408
Political Science, General.

When noliberal economies meet globalization: The transformation of interventionist states in East Asia.
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520 # $a How does institutional transformation of an interventionist state take place in the era of neoliberal economic globalization? This dissertation analyzes the politics of central state economic agency reform in the East Asian state-led nonliberal economies, by focusing on South Korea and China and using Japan as the secondary case. These countries' "pilot economic agencies," once coordinators of the old developmental policy regime, have experienced dramatic dismemberment or closure since the 1990s. On the surface, the decline of powerful agencies that used to represent the state-led development era seems to manifest the penetrating power of neoliberal economic globalization even over the interventionist states in the East Asian nonliberal economies that have long defied the laissez-faire capitalist development model. This dissertation asks why and how specific new bureaucratic institutional choices were made, at a critical juncture of economic transition that challenges the raison d'etre of the interventionist state. To answer this question, this dissertation disaggregates the process of bureaucratic reform policy-making and identifies key actors. It analyzes how the politics of state institutional reform takes place between these actors and how the effects of economic globalization come into play in the reform policy-making process.
520 # $a Intended or not, the structural realignment within the economic bureaucracy can significantly affect the institutional development path and economic role of the interventionist state. By analyzing the process of state institutional transformation, this dissertation also attempts to illuminate into what direction the interventionist states in the three East Asian state-led economies are evolving in the era of economic globalization. The decline of the old developmental bureaucracies does not necessarily mean the retreat of the state. Case analyses in this dissertation indicate that the priority policy issue area has shifted, the state's role is reinforced in new priority issue areas, and the power and resources are redistributed within the state-among economic agencies or between the top political leader and the bureaucracy. Ultimately into what the three interventionist states will be transformed is still uncertain. Yet, this dissertation suggests that the three East Asian interventionist states would take distinctive functional transformation paths not only from the Anglo-American neoliberal model but also from each other, despite the predominant neoliberal reform rationales and the facade of similar institutional changes.
520 # $a Reforming a pilot agency is a highly political process. Case studies in my dissertation reveal the importance of a reformist top government leader in the reform initiation as the agenda setter. To the leader, challenges posed by globalization are not only a constraint, but also an opportunity. Exogenous and endogenous economic pressures on the interventionist state are impetuses and rationales indispensable for the initiation of pilot agency reform, but the leader can proactively interpret and utilize these challenges to drive difficult domestic reform and to further the leader's own political interests and legitimacy. Yet a leader's capacity to carry out his reform agenda is confined by power fragmentation within the decision-making structure and the leverage of the targeted agency over the decision-makers. The final institutional choice, while outwardly driven by the forces of globalization and the crisis of old economic system, is the result of domestic political struggles determined by the power distribution among the top government leader, other decision-makers, and the targeted bureaucratic agency in a given political system.
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