International Development Studies, Institute of Society and Globalisation Laurids S. Lauridsen Paper to be presented at the EADI/DSA Conference on Rethinking.

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Laurids S. Lauridsen

Paper to be presented at the EADI/DSA Conference on ’Rethinking Development in an Age of Scarcity and Uncertainty’, 19-22 September 2011, University of York, UK

’Developmental governance is different from good governance – what economic transformations in Taiwan tell us about developmental governance’

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What was the role of state – policy, institutions and politics - in the dynamics of economic transformation in Taiwan, and how can that inform a developmental governance approach to economic development?

The core question

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Orthodox perspective

’Getting policies right’ – good policies

’Getting institutions right’ – good governance

’Getting politics right’ – good politics

Heterodox perspective

Developmental policies matter

Developmental institutions matter

Developmental politics matter

THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF DEVELOPMENTAL GOVERNANCE

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Policies• Industrial diversification

• Industrial deepening

• Industrial upgrading

Institutions• a highly motivated, competent and coherent bureaucracy protected and supported by the political leadership• a relational institutional arrangement for sustained strategic cooperation and coordination between public and private sectors (SBRs)• a well-organised private sector either in form of business associations with a high representation, effective interest intermediation, high capacity for in-house information provision• an institutional infrastructure with mechanisms of transparency and accountability

Policies, Institutions and Politics

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Politics•How do developmentally oriented states come into being and how are they consolidated?

•Where does the development orientation of the political leaders come from?

•How does the political organisation of the state impact upon policy decision-making and policy implementation?

•What motivates private business to enter into a developmental coalition with state elites, and under what conditions should we expect collaborative rather than collusive relations between state and business?

Politics•leadership

•state elite challenges

•legitimacy

•political conflicts

•political exchange relations

•political circumstances

Policies, Institutions and Politics

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• A set of favourable initial conditions –domestically and internationally

• Policies: Strategic industrial policy – diversification, deepening and upgrading + conservative macroeconomic policy

• Institutions: relative cohesive party-state + distant and low-trust SBRs + business associations + micro-institutional foundation (SMEs) + exclusive and extroverted policy networks

• Politics: Narrow coalition, social control and demobilisation + tacit social support + indirect rule through local factions

Developmental governance and industrial change under authoritarian rule 1960-1986

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• A period of economic liberalisation and political democratisation.

• Accelerated pressure on elites to upgrade – urgency

• Polices: Strategic industrial policy – technological upgrading: support programmes for ‘ten strategic industries’, ‘sixty-six key components’, ‘eight key technologies’ (ICT)

• Institutions: refurbished steering capacity, technological pilot agency, stronger and more balanced bureaucracy-private enterprise links, transnational technical community (Northern TW and Silicon Valley)

• Politics: Electoral politics, networking from above and below, POEs as a policy tool, a KMT-big business alliance, side payments to local factions

Developmental governance, political opening and industrial upgrading 1986-2000

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• The dot.com crisis and fear of ‘hollowing out’

• Policies: Strategic industrial policy (biotechnology)

• Politico-institutional set-up: DPP, divided government, KMT economic bureaucracy, upgrading and electoral calculations, difficulties with cross-border governance (identity politics), loss of state-autonomy

 Developmental governance under stress 2000-

2008.

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• Not a mixture of ’good policies’, ’good institutions’ and ’good politics’

• Strategic industrial policies – consistently important• Some similarity with the institutional design principles

but also differences• Politics: not just economic rationality and technocratic

foresight : policy choices, institutional set-up• Policies, institutions and politics all matter and must be

studied in an integrated way• Development governance has a strong relational

element, so the analysis must encompass the changing nature of state-business relations, while taking the institutional/ organisational nature of the business-side as well as broader micro-institutional arrangements into account

• Developmental governance is dynamic entity

Concluding remarks on developmental governance in Taiwan

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“Judge a man by his questions rather than

his answers.”- Voltaire