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After this political victory, Meles began fully to articulate his own vision of the "democratic developmental state".
In particular, the authors scrutinize to what degree the attempts to build a democratic developmental state may be distorted by the imperatives of neoliberalism.
What is noticeable in this discourse is how little attention has been paid to a discussion of the essence of a democratic developmental state, and much of what passes for theory is little more than policy-speak and political rhetoric.This volume fills a gap in the literature on the democratic developmental state.
The concept of a democratic developmental state is part of the current development discourse advocated by international aid agencies, deliberated on by academics, and embraced by policymakers in many emerging economies in the global South.
The volume broadens the understanding of the Nordic model of a democratic developmental state and shows how it represents an additional, and perhaps contending understanding of the developmental state derived from the East Asian experience.
Analyzing the different approaches to the implementation of democratic developmental states in various countries, it evaluates the extent to which these are merely replicating the central tenets of the East Asian model of the developmental state or if they are succeeding in their attempts to establish a new and more inclusive conceptualization of the state.
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"Good governance reforms promoted by aid agencies need to take into account existing elite bargains or they may have unintended negative outcomes on democratic and developmental possibilities," says the report.
Ethiopia has been hailed as a model of economic development and touts its progress on global anti-poverty indicators as proof that its "developmental democratic" style is working.
But one thing, which I do not want to hide, is that we follow a developmental democratic state system of governance.
First, it will interrogate the experiences of some of the countries in the "Global South"—Singapore, South Korea, Botswana and Mauritius— that have experimented with the authoritarian and liberal democratic models of developmental state.
Although the countries of CEE/FSU share some socio-economic and political characteristics, the analysed group of countries is still little heterogeneous in terms of their geography, natural resources, democratic structure, and developmental trajectories.
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