The Myth of the Powerless State / / Linda Weiss.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Weiss, Linda,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©1998
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Cornell Studies in Political Economy
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)

Conventional wisdom argues that the integration of the world economy is making national governments less powerful, but Linda Weiss disagrees. In an era when global society and the transnational market are trendy concepts, she suggests that state capacities for domestic transformative strategies provide a competitive advantage. Some of the most successful economies rely on state-informed and state-embedded institutions for governing the economy. In fact, she contends, the strength of external economic pressures is largely determined domestically, and the effect of such pressures varies with the strength of domestic institutions.Weiss analyzes the sources and varieties of state capacity for governing industrial transformation in contemporary cases: the unraveling of Sweden's distributive model of adjustment, the evolution of developmental states in Northeast Asia, and the parallel strengths of the German and Japanese systems of industrial coordination. Her comparative perspective allows her to show how different types of state capacity affect industrial vitality and domestic adjustment to global forces. As economic integration proceeds, she concludes, state capabilities will matter more rather than less in fostering social well-being and the creation of wealth.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1: THE STATE IS DEAD: LONG LIVE THE STATE -- Chapter 2: THE SOURCES OF STATE CAPACITY -- Chapter 3: TRANSFORMATIVE CAPACITY IN EVOLUTION: EAST ASIAN DEVELOPMENTAL STATES -- Chapter 4: LIMITS OF THE DISTRIBUTIVE STATE: SWEDISH MODEL OR GLOBAL ECONOMY? -- Chapter 5: DUALISTIC STATES: GERMANY IN THE JAPANESE MIRROR -- Chapter 6: THE LIMITS OF GLOBALIZATION -- Chapter 7: THE MYTH OF THE POWERLESS STATE -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index