China - the New Developmental State? : : An Empirical Analysis of the Automotive Industry.

• Superior document: Hohenheimer Volkswirtschaftliche Schriften Series ; v.60
• Author: Meier, Nicola.
• Place / Publishing House: Frankfurt a.M. : : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften,, 2009.; Ã2009.
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Hohenheimer Volkswirtschaftliche Schriften Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (366 pages)

Table of Contents

• Cover
• List of figures
• List of tables
• List of tables in the appendix
• List of abbreviations
• 1 Introduction
• 1.1 The context - putting China in perspective
• 1.2 The state of research and aim of the study
• 1.3 Methodology and available sources
• 1.4 Line of action
• 2 The East Asian developmental states
• 2.1 Debate on the beneficial role of the state
• 2.2 The developmental state theory
• 2.2.1 Early recognition of the state's role in industrialization
• 2.2.2 Origin of the East Asian capitalist developmental state theory
• 2.2.3 Different developmental state approaches
• 2.3 The developmental states' institutional and bureaucratic organization
• 2.3.1 Depoliticized elite bureaucracy
• 2.3.2 Cohesiveness and autonomy of the elite bureaucracy
• 2.3.3 The pilot agency
• 2.4 State-led economic growth
• 2.4.1 East Asian industrial policy
• 2.4.2 Trade policy - import substitution and export promotion
• 2.4.3 Foreign capital
• 2.5 Financial system
• 2.6 State-society and government-business relations
• 2.6.1 State-society relations
• 2.6.2 Government-business relations
• 2.6.2.1 Information exchange
• 2.6.2.2 Embedded autonomy
• 2.7 Assessment of the East Asian developmental state approach
• 2.7.1 Subjects unaddressed by the developmental state theory
• 2.7.2 The East Asian Developmental State Model
• 2.7.3 Emulation of the developmental state model by other developing countries?
• 3 A new model of economic development
• 3.1 Applicability of the East Asian Developmental State Model to China
• 3.1.1 Conditions of the Chinese economic development approach
• 3.1.2 Characteristics that distinguish China from the developmental states
• 3.2 Bureaucracy
• 3.2.1 Bureaucratic organizational structure
• 3.2.2 The civil service system
• 3.2.2.1 Depolitization of civil servants?.
• 3.2.2.2 Meritocratic recruitment
• 3.2.3 A Chinese pilot agency?
• 3.2.3.1 The State Planning Commission and its successors
• 3.2.3.2 Streamlined government structure
• 3.3 State
• 3.3.1 Industrial policy
• 3.3.2 Institutional reforms - drivers of and obstacles to economic growth
• 3.3.2.1 Fiscal federalism
• 3.3.2.2 Collective ownership
• 3.3.2.3 Corruption
• 3.3.2.4 Local protectionism
• 3.3.3 Promotion of selected sectors, companies and projects
• 3.3.3.1 Industrial policy targeting S&amp
• T
• 3.3.3.2 State effort to increase China's R&amp
• D capabilities
• 3.3.4 Foreign participation
• 3.3.4.1 Substantial reliance on FDI
• 3.3.4.2 State guidance of FDI
• 3.3.5 Export-oriented industrialization
• 3.3.5.1 Export promotion and import substitution
• 3.3.5.2 Sectoral targeting of exports
• 3.3.5.3 The central government's devaluation policy to promote exports
• 3.3.5.4 Export-FDI nexus in Special Economic Zones
• 3.4 Financial system
• 3.4.1 Government influence over the financial system
• 3.4.2 Sectoral and firm-level allocation of credit
• 3.4.3 Fragility of the Chinese financial system
• 3.5 Government-business relations
• 3.6 Conclusion
• 4 The auto industry in the light of the Chinese development approach
• 4.1 Design of research
• 4.1.1 Qualitative analysis
• 4.1.1.1 Expert interviews as a method of qualitative research
• 4.1.1.2 Interview partners and questionnaires
• 4.1.1.3 Research design quality
• 4.1.2 Quantitative analysis
• 4.1.2.1 The data sample
• 4.1.2.2 Methodology of the statistical evaluation
• 4.1.3 Shortcomings of the research approach
• 4.2 Bureaucratic framework of the auto industry
• 4.2.1 Bureaucratic institutions shaping the auto sector's development
• 4.2.2 Policy-making and implementation
• 4.3 National auto industrial policy
• 4.3.1 FDIs in the auto sector.
• 4.3.1.1 Designation of nine auto groups
• 4.3.1.2 Attraction of foreign investors
• 4.3.1.3 Revised policy approach after WTO accession
• 4.3.2 Trade policy for the auto sector
• 4.3.2.1 Import substitution
• 4.3.2.1.1 Infant-industry protection of the auto sector through tariff barriers until 2001
• 4.3.2.1.2 Reduction of tariff barriers and introduction of non-tariff barriers since 2001
• 4.3.2.2 Export promotion
• 4.3.3 Localism in the auto industry
• 4.3.3.1 Incentives to boost the development of the auto sector
• 4.3.3.2 Protectionist measures to safeguard local auto companies
• 4.3.3.3 Different development approaches for the auto sector - Beijing and Shanghai
• 4.4 Financial system as an instrument to regulate the auto sector's growth
• 4.5 Government-business cooperation and information sharing in the auto sector
• 4.6 Two decades of state-promotion in the auto sector
• 4.6.1 Achievements
• 4.6.2 Shortcomings
• 4.6.2.1 Fragmentation of the auto market
• 4.6.2.2 Limited market share and technology know-how
• 4.6.2.3 International competitiveness
• 4.7 Conclusion
• 5 Evaluation and lessons from China's model of economic development
• 5.1 China - the new developmental state
• 5.2 Uniqueness of the Chinese development approach
• 5.3 Lessons from China's new model of economic development
• Appendix
• Appendix I: List of experts interviewed in China
• Appendix II: Experts' affiliation
• Appendix III: Topic overview for interviewees
• Appendix IV: Questionnaire for company representatives
• Appendix V: Statistics of the 2001 World Bank survey.