State Capacity in East Asia: China, Taiwan, Vietnam, and Japan

by Kjeld Erik Brodsgaard, Susan Young, Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard

This book examines states and state capacity in four countries that have experienced rapid economic growth over several decades, China, Japan, Taiwan, and Vietnam It argues that while modern market forces and transnational corporations exert tremendous pressures, states still matter. The capacity of the East Asian state to adapt and develop new institutions is empirically illustrated as well as theoretically contextualized.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198297637
• ISBN13: 9780198297635
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"