Globalization and state autonomy in Singapore
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Source of Publication
Asian Journal of Social Science
Publication Date
2-1-2008
Abstract
This paper revisits the concept of state autonomy in the context of globalization. Earlier literature either considered state autonomy from the social forces in broad institutional and cultural terms or from the dominant classes in a restrictive sense. However, in either case the focus remained on domestic/national society, not the global society. The discussion of relative autonomy of the state began among the Marxists in the 1970s and then graduated into the mainstream social sciences in the 1980s and 1990s. In the upshot, the notions of developmental state and the embedded autonomy have significantly added to our knowledge of the role of the state. This paper broadens the idea of embedded autonomy by locating the sources of embeddedness in both local as well global institutions and norms. The paper uses the Singapore case to illustrate some of the possibilities and limitations of the reconfigured role of the state in the face of globalization. © 2008 Brill Academic Publishers.
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ISSN
Publisher
Brill
Volume
36
Issue
1
First Page
35
Last Page
56
Disciplines
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Keywords
Democracy, Developmental state, Globalization, Political economy, Singapore state, State autonomy
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Recommended Citation
Khondker, Habibul Haque, "Globalization and state autonomy in Singapore" (2008). All Works. 1790.
https://zuscholars.zu.ac.ae/works/1790
Indexed in Scopus
yes
Open Access
no