Clean Tech Industrial Policies in China and the Installation of a Developmental State
Based on research into the industrial policies adopted by the Central government of China in the areas ofclean technology, this paper hypothesizes that China should be seen as having installed a developmental state in the early years of the 21st Century.The paper will trace the policies in the solar PV and wind turbine sectors over the past 15 years, and examine their effects.I will argue that the new political economic configuration that is now apparent in China emerged in the period of 1998-2003.The changes that took place during this period led to an arrangement that scholars have shown to be propitious for rapid, sustained industrial growth and structtral change: a state committed to rapid modernization, a powerful, meritocratic, and pragmatic bureaucracy, a nodal agency for coordinating economic policy, and dense government ties to firms.Nearly all literature in English continues to focus on Chinas legacy of decentralization, the market for technology strategy of the 1980s and 90s, and FDI.I will show that these are salient elements in Chinas contemporary political economy, but woefully insufficient for exphining recent developments.To do so will require reviving the explanatory framework of the developmental state, a framework that has rested dormant in Angbphone social science since the Asian Financial Crisis.
Jonathan Lassen
New York University
国际会议
The 1st Chinese Conference on Comparative Political Economy (第一届比较政治经济学国际学术会议)
北京
英文
28-40
2013-09-08（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）