State structure, policy formation, and economic development in Southeast Asia : the political economy of Thailand and the Philippines

Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2012
Tongue: English
Leaves: 225
Series: Routledge studies in the growth economies of Asia, 108
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

State Structure, Policy
Formation, and Economic
Development in Southeast Asia
The political economy of Thailand and
the Philippines......Page 10
Copyright......Page 11
Contents......Page 14
Figures and tables......Page 16
Acknowledgments......Page 17
Abbreviations and acronyms......Page 19
1 Introduction: institutional settings of state power and the policy process......Page 22
The state in changing development contexts......Page 25
Policymaking in the ASEAN-4 countries......Page 33
The case studies......Page 39
2 Patterns of economic growth: narratives and realities......Page 47
Open markets, rents, and industrial development......Page 49
Deconstructing dominant narratives......Page 53
Two tales of economic collapse and survival......Page 60
Conclusion......Page 71
3 Building the modern state and economy......Page 73
Thailand and its bureaucratic polity......Page 77
The Philippines and its proprietary polity......Page 87
Synthesis and conclusion......Page 100
4 Comparative policy dynamics of trade and investment promotion......Page 107
Thailand and the Philippines: early history of international trade......Page 108
Politics of import–substitution industrialization......Page 113
Conclusion......Page 126
5 Liberalization: divergent paths, different outcomes......Page 130
Foundations of export–oriented industrialization......Page 132
Conclusion......Page 152
6 Conclusion: state configuration and the politics of economic development......Page 154
Thailand and the Philippines in comparative perspective......Page 158
Institutional settings of the ASEAN-4 countries......Page 164
The politics of late–late development......Page 169
Notes......Page 175
Bibliography......Page 195
Index......Page 218

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