Nationalism has long excited debate in political, social and cultural theory and remains a key field of enquiry among historians, anthropologists, sociologists as well as political scientists. It is also one of the critical media issues of our time. There are, however, surprisingly few volumes that bring together the best of this intellectual diversity into one collection.

The SAGE Handbook of Nations and Nationalism

While China continues to develop capitalistic capacities, the party-state has increasingly tightened control of the economy and synchronized political and economic stratification – a tendency towards a centrally managed capitalism Under centrally managed capitalism, the party-state commands the economy by controlling personnel, organizations, and capital in both political and economic arenas At the same time, it delegates fiscal and administrative authorities to multiple and diversely formed corporations to compete in the marketplace I further speculate on future ideological alternatives: a western-style democracy, a mature-stage socialism, or an enlightened authoritarianism – Xiaokang (小康 moderate prosperity or well-off society) After eliminating or casting doubt on the former two, I argue that a two-step transformation towards Xiaokang is under way In the first step, the party-state leadership gradually decouples its position from Marxist ideology of communism and socialism, and moves towards the maintenance of economic growth and social order The second step then allows the legitimacy of party rule to be based on indigenous Confucian ideology that emphasizes enlightened leaders, moral institutions, and social relations (ie, Xiaokang) Finally, I explore the feasibility and paths towards an indigenous ideology of democracy (Datong: 大同 – universal harmony)

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cfm/j_1740-8784_2010_00203_x_wml.pdf?abstractid=1784121&mirid=4

Capitalism in China: A Centrally Managed Capitalism (CMC) and Its Future

https://www.soas.ac.uk/economics/research/workingpapers/file28887.pdf

Initial Conditions and Miraculous Growth: Why is South East Asia Different from Taiwan and South Korea?

This paper focuses on the changing governance of economic development in a globalizing era in relation to the dynamics of global value chains and global production networks. Based on recent development in such East Asian economies as South Korea, Taiwan and Singapore, I examine how, since the 1990s, the embedded relation between one variant of state institutions, known as the developmental state, and national firms, well integrated into global chains and networks spanning different territories and regions, has evolved. Because of the deepening strategic coupling of these national firms with lead firms in global industries, the developmental state's attempt to govern the market and to steer industrial transformation through direct policy interventions has become increasingly difficult and problematic. Through this process of strategic coupling, national firms have been gradually disembedded from state apparatuses and re-embedded in different global production networks that are governed by competiti...

Marie Conte-Helm

Papers

Japan: who governs? The rise of the developmental state