This study, based on the premise that the developmental states have been playing crucial roles in achieving economic success in East Asia, is designed to compare the crises and transformations of the developmental state in Korea with
those in Taiwan. ...
This study, based on the premise that the developmental states have been playing crucial roles in achieving economic success in East Asia, is designed to compare the crises and transformations of the developmental state in Korea with
those in Taiwan. State-led development
in early industrialization has created contradictory tendencies to undermine state autonomy and state capacity, and resulted in the crisis of the developmental state
itself. This study identify worldsystem constraints, democratic transition, and rise of big business as key factors in bringing about the crisis of the developmental states.
The crises implicate the transformations of the development model. In Taiwan, we could find a tendency towards a ‘soft- developmental state,’ in which the characteristics of developmental state can,
though in a limited form, still be found. In Korea, however, because of intense conflict between the state and the societal forces, and of the failure of policy response, the
developmental state has precipitously
declined, winding up with a ‘post-developmental state.’