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Blending theory and case studies, this volume explores a vitally important and topical aspect of developmentalism, which remains a focal point for scholarly and policy debates around democracy and social development in the global political economy. Includes case studies from China, Vietnam, India, Brazil, Uganda, South Korea, Ireland, Australia.

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Introduction: Neoliberalism and Developmental Politics in Perspective; C.Kyung-Sup , L.Weiss B.Fine PART I: DEVELOPMENTAL POLITICS AND NEOLIBERALISM: CRITICAL ISSUES The Myth of the Neoliberal State; L.Weiss Kicking Away the Ladder: Neoliberalism and the ´Real´ History of Capitalism; C.Ha-Joon Neo-Liberalism in Retrospect? - It´s Financialisation, Stupid; B.Fine Predicaments of Neoliberalism in the Post-Developmental Liberal Context; C.Kyung-Sup European Welfare States: Neoliberal Retrenchment, Developmental Reinforcement, or Plural Evolutions; P.Abrahamson PART II: DEVELOPMENTAL POLITICS AND NEOLIBERALISM IN DEVELOPING POLITICAL ECONOMIES Neoliberalism, Democracy and Development Policy in Brazil; A.Saad-Filho From Dirgisme to Neoliberalism: Aspects of the Political Economy of the Transition in India; C.P.Chandrasekhar The Transition from Neoliberalism to State Neoliberalism in China at the Turn of the 21st Century; A.Y.So & Y.Chu Vietnam between Developmental State and Neoliberalism: The Case of the Industrial Sector; P.Masina New Developmentalism in the Old Wineskin of Neoliberalism in Uganda; J.Kiiza PART III: DEVELOPMENTAL POLITICS AND NEOLIBERALISM IN ADVANCED POLITICAL ECONOMIES Neoliberal Restructuring in South Korea Before and After the Crisis; T.Y.Kong The Irish Social Partnership Model: From Growth Promotion to Crisis Management?; K.Hyeong-ki From Developmentalism to Neoliberalism and Back Again? Governing the Market in Australia from the 1980s to the Present; E.Thurbon PART IV: CONCLUSION AND PROSPECT Developmental Politics beyond the Neoliberal Era; B.Fine & C.Kyung-Sup

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"This sober intellectual project is empirically packed and theoretically reflective in its insistence that ´[e]ach system should be examined by reference to the structures, agencies, processes, power, and conflicts that are exercised in material provision´. Academics, students and practitioners of peacebuilding should find much of interest and relevance in its book. For me, its key contribution lies in how it debunks a number of central myths about neoliberalism." - Mandy Turner, Peacebuilding

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