Asia after the Developmental State: Disembedding Autonomy(Cambridge Studies in Comparative Public Policy)

Asia after the Developmental State presents cutting-edge analyses of state-society transformation in Asia under globalisation. The volume incorporates a variety of political economy and public policy oriented positions, and collectively explores the uneven evolution of new public management and neoliberal agendas aimed at reordering state and society around market rationality. Taken together, the contributions explore the emergence of marketisation across Asia, including China, Japan, South Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam - what is now often described as the world's most economically dynamic region - and the degree to which marketisation has taken root, in what forms, and how this is impacting state, society and market relationships.

Table of Contents:
1. Disembedding autonomy: Asia after the developmental state Toby Carroll and Darryl S. L. Jarvis; Part I. Conceptualizing State Transformation in Asia: Multipolarity, Neoliberalism and Contestation: 2. The origins of East Asia's developmental states and the pressures for change Richard Stubbs; 3. Globalization and development: the evolving idea of the developmental state Shigeko Hayashi; 4. Late capitalism and the shift from the 'development state' to the variegated market state Toby Carroll; 5. Capitalist development in the twenty-first century: states and global competitiveness Paul Cammack; 6. From Japan's 'Prussian path' to China's 'Singapore model': learning authoritarian developmentalism Mark Thompson; 7. What does China's rise mean for the developmental state paradigm? Mark Beeson; Part II. Cases of State Transformation in Contemporary Asia: 8. The state and development in Malaysia: race, class and markets Darryl S. L. Jarvis; 9. Survival of the weakest? The politics of independent regulatory agencies in Indonesia Jamie Davidson; 10. The Pandora's box of neoliberalism: housing reforms in China and South Korea Siu-yau Lee; 11. Health care and the state in China M. Ramesh and Azad Bali; 12. Wither the developmental state? Adaptive state entrepreneurship and social policy expansion in China Ka Ho Mok; 13. Public-private partnerships in the water sector in Southeast Asia: trends, issues and lessons Schuyler House and Wu Xun; 14. Higher education and the developmental state: the view from East and Southeast Asia Anthony Welch; 15. State, capital, and the politics of stratification: a comparative study of welfare regimes in marketizing Asia Jonathan London; 16. Modifying recipes: insights on Japanese electricity sector reform and lessons for China Scott Victor Valentine.

About the Author :
Toby Carroll is Associate Professor in the Department of Asian and International Studies, City University of Hong Kong. He is the author of Delusions of Development: The World Bank and the post-Washington Consensus in Southeast Asia (2010) and co-editor of The Politics of Marketising Asia (with Darryl S. L. Jarvis, 2013) and Financialisation and Development in Asia (with Darryl S. L. Jarvis, 2015). Darryl S. L. Jarvis is Professor of Global Studies in the Faculty of Liberal Studies and Social Sciences at the Education University of Hong Kong (formerly the Hong Kong Institute of Education). His publications include The Politics of Marketising Asia (with Toby Carroll, 2013), ASEAN Industries and the Challenge from China (with Anthony Welch, 2011), and International Business Risk: A Handbook for the Asia-Pacific Region (Cambridge, 2002), among others.

Review :
'This excellent collection provides a wide ranging set of analyses and case studies that show the varieties of different forms of state-market relationships that vary not just from country to country and over time, but also across different sectors in individual countries. But despite this diversity, a common emphasis on how state capacities are being transformed to serve specific interests and purposes provides a unifying glue to produce an overall coherent, effective, and compelling whole.' Shaun Breslin, Warwick University 'This is an excellent collection that combines analytical rigour with a deep empirical knowledge to challenge the dominant institutionalist understanding of developmentalism and developmental states in Asia. The book analyses the changing patterns of class conflict and alliances in the post-developmental state era in Asia which are driving inequality and leading to political crisis. This is a timely book that charts a new agenda for the study of Asia's political economy. Essential reading.' Kanishka Jayasuriya, Murdoch University, Australia