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53 The argument for the section on the predatory state was initially developed in Minxin Pei, “Rotten from Within: Decentralized Predation and Incapacitated State,” in T. V. Paul, John Ikenberry, and John Hall, eds., The Nation-State in Question (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2003), 321-349.

54 See Chalmers Johnson, MITI and the Japanese Miracle (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1982); Stephan Haggard, Pathways from the Periphery: ThePolitics of Growthin the Newly Industrialized Countries(Ithaca, N.Y: Cornell University Press, 1990); Robert Wade, Governing the Market: Economic Theory and the Role of Government in East Asian Industrialization (Princeton, NJ.: Princeton University Press, 1990); Alice H. Amsden, Asia’s Next Giant:South Korea and Late Industrialization (NewYork: Oxford University Press, 1989).

55 See the World Bank, The East Asian Miracle: Econonzic Growthand Public Policy (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993).

56 Wade, Governingthe Market, 372-373.

57 See Barry Sautman’s “Sirens of the Strongman: Neo-Authoritarianism in Recent Chinese Political Theory,” The China Quarterly129 (1992) : 72-102.

58 Zhao Ziyang recalled this conversation when he was interviewed by a respected veteran Chinese journalist, Yang Jisheng, on October 29, 1996, in his residence in Beijing. Although Zhao himself was rumored to be an advocate of neoauthoritarianism in the late 1980s, Zhao told Yang that he did not know this concept or its main intellectual proponent at the time, a researcher in the CCP Central Committee’s Secretariat called Wu Jiaxiang. See Yang Jisheng, Zhongguo gaige niandai de zhengzhi douzheng (Political Struggle During the Reform Era in China) (Hong Kong: Excellent Culture Press, 2005), 589.

59 See Andrei Shleifer and Robert W. Vishny, The GrabbingHand:Government Pathologies and Their Cures(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998).

60 Peter Evans, Embedded Autonomy: States and Industrial Transformation (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1995).

61 Ibid., 248.

62 Adam Przcworski and Fernando Limongi, “Political Regimes and Economic Growth,” Journal of Economic Perspectives 2(3) (1993): 65.

63 We may include South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Thailand. Outside East Asia, only Chile may qualify.

64 See Douglass North, Structure and Change in Economic History (New York: Norton, 1981), 20-32.

65 See Douglass North, Institutions,Institutional Changeand Economic Performance (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990); Thrainn Eggertsson, Economic Behavior and Institutions (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990). The institutionalist approach spurred a flurry of research on regime types and economic growth. The representative works include Martin McGuirc and Mancur Olson, “The Economics of Autocracy and Majority Rule: The Invisible Hand and the Use of Force,” Journal of Economic Literature 34 (1996): 72-96; Robert Barro, “Democracy and Growth,” Journal of Economic Growth 1(1) (1996): 1-27; Robert Perotti, “Growth, Income Distribution, and Democracy: What the Data Say,” Journal of Economic Growth 1(1) (1996): 149-187; Christopher Clague et al., “Property and Contract Rights in Autocracies and Democracies,” Journal of Economic Growth 1(1) (1996): 243-276.

66 The best example is the World Bank’s World Development Report 1997: The State and Development (Washington, D.C.: World Bank, 1998).

67 North, Structureand Change, 20.

68 See Shleifer and Vishny, The Grabbing Hand.

69 Both North and Olson made this point. See North, Structure and Change, 21-24; Mancur Olson, “Dictatorship, Democracy, and Development,” American Political Science Review 87(3) (1993):567-576.

70 Susan Rose-Ackerman, Corruptionand Government: Causes,Consequences, and Reform (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), 114-721.

71 Olson, “Dictatorship, Democracy, and Development.”

72 Eggertsson, Economic Behaviorand Institutions, 323.

73 Margaret Levi, Of Rule and Revenue (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988).

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