Developmental State and the Political Economy of Local Government in Africa: A Case Study of South Africa

Mohale, David Matheakuena

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-38922-2_18

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“…Today, the discussion continues around four separate, but related themes: (1) China as a developmental state (Baek, 2005;Breslin, 1996;Karagiannis et al, 2020;Lin and Zhang, 2019;Nee et al, 2007;Song, 2019;Szekely-Doby, 2020;Wu, 2015;Zweig et al, 2021); (2) developmental states as policy prescriptions for developing economies (Kayizzi-Mugerwa and Lufumpa, 2020;Mkandawire and Yi, 2014;Mohale, 2020;Oqubay, 2015: 374;Poon and Kozul-Wright, 2019;Tomkinson, 2019); (3) the collapse of developmental states and the neoliberalization of advanced East Asian economies (Bowles, 2020;Park et al, 2012;Sonn and Lee, 2015;Wade, 2018); and (4) retheorization of the developmental state from strategic relational and multi-scalar perspectives (Glassman, 2018;Glassman and Choi, 2014;Hwang, 2016;Sonn, 2010;Sonn and Hsu, 2022) The original and the four more recent bodies of literature tend to overlook the spatial dimensions of developmental state's policies. This is an important gap because the economic planning for late industrialization had to go hand in hand with spatial planning.…”

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Reformulating the developmental state theory to explain Chinese spatial planning

Sonn

Choi

2022

Transactions in Planning and Urban Research

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Developmental state literature almost completely neglects the fact that one of the unique features of the developmental state is its capacity to reorganize its territory, and the literature on the Chinese developmental state repeats the same oversight. Against this backdrop, this study attempts to retheorize China’s spatial planning from a developmental state perspective. In light of the theoretical discussion in this study, we argue that the developmentalist spatial planning has five main characteristics of the developmentalist spatial planning: (1) The state sees its territory as a means of production, not as a living environment. (2) Industrial location policies were market-conforming. (3) The spatial planning was controlled or strongly influenced by the elite economic agency that formulates industrial policies and guides the market. (4) The bureaucracy is more or less insulated from local growth coalitions. (5) Spatial planning creates rather than responds to economic changes. These five characteristics are apparent in China’s spatial planning as much as in South Korea’s.

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