Sociology 940: Rethinking the Developmental State Spring 2010 Gay Seidman 8112b Sewell Bldg. Email: [email protected] This course is meant for students with some background in development theory who want to explore the past two decades’ debate about the relationship between changing international political economy, political and institutional shifts, and developmental possibilities. After first introducing earlier discussions of the ‘developmental state’, we will spend several weeks looking at how the changing economic and institutional context created strong pressures for opening to the global economy, changing the relationship between states and capital; then we will look at more recent discussions of new strategies designed for this new context. Students will be expected to read about 100 pages a week, and be prepared to discuss the readings in class; do an in-class presentation; and write a paper of at least 20 pages, either a review of literature around a relevant debate, or a research paper on a related topic (due at the end of the semester). It’s probably best if you discuss your paper topic with me before spring break. Week I (January 21) Introduction Fred Cooper and Randall Packard, “Introduction”, Development and the Disciplines Philip McMichael, Development and Social Change Week II (January 28) What was the East Asian ‘Developmental State’? Meredith Woo Cumings (2002), “Chalmers Johnson and the Politics of Nationalism and Development,” in Woo-Cumings (ed), The Developmental State, 1-31 Chalmers Johnson (2002) “The developmental state: Odyssey of a concept” in Woo-Cumings (ed.), The Developmental State, 32-60 Shahid Yusuf (2001), “The East Asian Miracle at the Millenium”, in Stiglitz and Yusuf, Rethinking the East Asian Miracle, 1-53 Takatoshi Ito (2001), Growth, Crisis and the Future of Economic Recovery in East Asia” in Stiglitz and Yusuf, Rethinking the East Asian Miracle, 55-94 Additional reading: Chalmers Johnson, MITI and the Japanese Miracle: The Growth of Industrial Policy, 1925-1975 (1982) Alice Amsden, Asia’s next giant : South Korea and late industrialization, 1989 Week III (February 4) Dependency/Development/State-led industrialization Peter Evans, Embedded Autonomy: states and industrial transformation, chapters tbaVivek Chibber, Locked in Place: state-building and late industrialization in India, chapters tba Additional reading: Peter Smith, “The Rise and Fall of the Developmental State in Latin America,” in The Changing Role of the State in Latin America, ed. M. Vellinga, 1998 F.H. Cardoso and E. Faletto, Dependency and Development, trans. 1979 Peter Evans, Dependent development : the alliance of multinational, state, and local capital in Brazil, 1979 Jeffrey Paige, Coffee and Power, 1996 Atul Kohli, State-directed development : political power and industrialization in the global periphery, 2004 James Ferguson, The Anti-Politics Machine: Development, Depoliticization and Bureaucratization in Lesotho, 1994 Week IV (February 11) The Washington Consensus and its critics John Williamson, 1990. “What Washington Means by Policy Reform” , in Latin American Adjustment: How much has happened?, Institute for International Economics Thomas Biersteker, “The triumph of liberal economic ideas in the developing world,” in Barbara Stallings (ed), Global Change, Regional Response, 1994 Michael Carter, 1997. “Intellectual openings and policy closures: Disequilibria in contemporary development economics,” in Cooper and Packard (eds), International Development and the Social Sciences Hector Schamis. 1999. “Distribution Coalitions and the Politics of Economic Reform in Latin America. World Politics 51 (2) : 236-268 Additional reading: Joseph Stiglitz, Globalization and its Discontents Susan Stokes, 1997. “Democratic Accountability and Policy Change: Economic Policy in Fujimori’s Peru”. Comparative Politics 29(2): 209-226 Susan Stokes, 2001. Mandates and Democarcy: Neoliberalism by Surprise in latin America. Kurt Weyland. 2004. The Politics of Market Reform in Fragile Democracies: Argentina, Brazil, Peru and Venezuela. Judith Teichman, 2001. The Politics of Freeing markets in Latin America: Chile, Argentina, and Mexico. Week V (February 18) International Shifts Sarah Babb, Behind the Development Banks, chapters tba Eric Helleiner, 2009. “The Development Mandate of International Institutions: Where Did it Come From?” Studies in Comparative International Development 44(3), 189-211Additional reading: Michael Barnett and Martha Finnemore, Rules for the World: International organizations in global politics, 2004 Sarah Babb, “The IMF in Sociological Perspective: A Tale of Organizational Slippage”, Studies in Comparative International Development, 38:2 (2003), 3-27. Robert Wade, 'What strategies are viable for developing countries today? The WTO and the shrinking of development space.' Review of International Political Economy 10, no. 4 (2003), pp. 621-644. Week VI (February 25) This week we may have a guest speaker, in which case, readings will be rearranged.. Environmental globalization Michael Goldman, Imperial Nature, chapters tba Additional reading: Sanjeev Khagram, Dams and Development: Transnational Struggles for Water and Power Week VII (March 4) Restructured production Gary Gereffi, “The organization of buyer-driven global commodity chains: How U.S. retailers shape overseas production networks”, in Gary Gereffi and Miguel Korzeniewicz (eds), Commodity Chains and Global Capitalism, 1993 Miguel Korzeniewicz, Commodity chains and marketing strategies: Nike and the global athletic footwear industry”, in Gereffi and Korzeniewicz (eds), Commodity Chains and Global Capitalism (1994),247-266 Ellen Rosen, Making Sweatshops, chapters tba Andrew Schrank, “Homeward Bound: Interest, Identity, and Investor Behavior in a Third World Export Platform.” American Journal of Sociology 114 (1) 2008. Additional reading: Edna Bonacich and Jake Wilson, Getting the Goods: Ports, Labor and the Logistics Revolution, 2007 Alain Lipietz, “Toward global fordism” , from Mirages and Miracles, 1988 Alice Amsden, “Third world industrialization: Global fordism or a new model?” New Left Review, 1989 Gary Gereffi and Miguel Korzeniewicz (eds), Commodity Chains and Global