Market building in Asia: standards setting, policy diffusion, and the globalization of market norms

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Notes

1. 1. Indeed, even in China it is evident that the role of the state and of the state-led development is being subsumed as the sheer size of market activities and the success of state-owned enterprise alter state–market relations. Shaun Breslin, for example, goes so far to suggest that the moniker of ‘state led development’ applied to the political economy of China’s development fails to capture the degree of policy experimentation, pragmatism, if not federalism, where ‘devolved state-led experimentation’ is perhaps more appropriate to understand the Chinese economic development vis-à-vis the role of the state (see Breslin 2011, pp. 1329–1331).

2. 2. We differentiate between single party or authoritarian developmental states and authoritarian non-developmental states (such as Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia).

3. 3. Arguments concerning global convergence are, of course, contested. See, for example, Hirst and Thompson (1996), Hall and Soskice (2001), Berger (1996).