Limits and possibilities of Chalmers Johnson’s analytical framework for understanding the industrial strategy: an institutionalist look at China’s political economy
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https://doi.org/10.5007/2177-5230.2020v35n77p103Abstract
One of the most notorious events of the last quarter of the XXth century was the socioeconomic, technological and productive modernization of East Asia, in particular Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. In the turn of the century and continuing in the present, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) entered this group of successful nations consolidating itself as a superpower in a continuous growth trajectory. Several theoretical approaches sought to explain the success of these cases, among them that of the Developmental State (ED), originally developed by Chalmers Johnson in 1982. This article aims to make a critical assessment of the developmentalist literature focused on China’s industrial strategy, in addition to examining the extent to which the Chinese political economy fits or not the four institutional predicates of the DS elucidated by the author.
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