We are in an age of post-neoliberal globalization, whereby a complex interdependence has integrated many economies and industries within them, and in parallel led to the rise of varied national and subnational political and economic responses. The advent of the Washington Consensus, the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991, Big Bang Liberalization in India, and China’s distinctive global economic integration since its accession to the World Trade Organization in 2001 parallel rejoinders, often neither liberal economically nor politically, which have occurred at the sector and subsector levels, giving way to firm-level interactions that intersect national politics and global economics. The gathered roundtable of comparative and international political economy scholars deliberates the leverage and value of “bringing the sector back in” vis-à-vis other perspectives, including institutional adaptation, varieties of capitalism, and the new developmental state, for studying new industrial policy, market governance and regulation, innovation and growth, natural resource management, environmental transition, and geopolitical implications in the new political economy.
This panel will feature Richard Doner, Goodrich C. White Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Emory University, Roselyn Hsueh, Professor of Political Science at Temple University and Visiting Scholar at the Berkeley Economy and Society Initiative, Ben Ross Schneider, Ford International Professor of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Aseema Sinha, Wagener Chair of South Asian Politics at Claremont McKenna College, John Yasuda, Associate Professor of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University, and Steven K. Vogel, Il Han New Professor of Asian Studies and Professor of Political Science and Political Economy at the UC Berkeley, who will moderate and serve as chair. This public panel is a part of the two-day Bringing the Sector Back In conference, sponsored by the Berkeley Economy and Society Initiative (BESI) and cosponsored by the Institute of East Asian Studies, the Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, and the Department of Political Science.
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