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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.
Panelists
Richard Doner is the Goodrich C. White Professor of Political Science (Emeritus) and Adjunct Professor, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University. His scholarship addresses the comparative political economy of development in SE and E Asia with focus on economic sectors. His books include The Political Economy of the East Asian Auto Industries (with Greg Noble and John Ravenhill, Oxford 2021), The Politics of Uneven Development: Thailand’s Economic Growth in Comparative Perspective (Cambridge 2009), From Silicon Valley to Singapore: Location and Competitive Advantages in the Disk Drive Industry (with David McKendrick and Stephan Haggard, Stanford 2000), and Driving a Bargain: Automobile Industrialization and Japanese Firms in Southeast Asia (California 1991). His 60 articles include (with Jake Ricks), “Getting Institutions Right: Matching Institutional Capacities to Developmental Tasks,” World Development and (with Ben Ross Schneider), “The Middle-Income Trap: More Politics Than Economics,” World Politics.
Roselyn Hsueh is a Professor of Political Science at Temple University and Visiting Scholar at the Berkeley Economy and Society Initiative. She is the author of Micro-institutional Foundations of Capitalism: Sectoral Pathways to Globalization in China, India, and Russia (Cambridge, 2022) and China’s Regulatory State: A New Strategy for Globalization (Cornell, 2011), and scholarship in book chapters and peer-reviewed journals on comparative regulation and governance, industrial policy, and development and globalization. Her current research examines the technological intensity of trade and Chinese outward foreign direct investment and the political economy of identity in the global era. She held fellowships at the University of Pennsylvania, Georgetown University, and the University of Southern California. She conducted international fieldwork as a Fulbright Global Scholar, served as a visiting professor at the National Taiwan University, and was a Fulbright visiting scholar at the Institute of World Economics and Politics (China). She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.
Ben Ross Schneider is the Ford International Professor of Political Science and director of the MIT Chile program. Prior to joining the department in 2008, Schneider taught at Princeton University and Northwestern University. His teaching and research interests fall within the general fields of comparative politics, political economy, and Latin American politics. His books include Business Politics and the State in 20th Century Latin America (2004), Hierarchical Capitalism in Latin America: Business, Labor, and the Challenges of Equitable Development (Cambridge University Press, 2013), Designing Industrial Policy in Latin America: Business-Government Relations and the New Developmentalism (2015), and Routes to Reform: Education Politics in Latin America (Oxford University Press, 2024)
Aseema Sinha is the Wagener Chair of Comparative Politics and George R. Roberts Fellow at Claremont McKenna College in California, USA. She previously taught at University of Wisconsin-Madison and was a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center in DC. Her research interests relate to political economy of India, sectoral analysis of Pharma and textile sectors, India-China comparisons, International Organizations, and the rise of India as an emerging power. She has authored a book, The Regional Roots of Developmental Politics in India: A Divided Leviathan (Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2005), which received the Joseph Elder Book Prize in the Indian Social Sciences. Her book titled, Globalizing India: How Global Rules and Markets are Shaping India’s Rise to Power was published by Cambridge University Press (2016). Her articles have appeared in the Studies in Comparative and International Development, International Affairs, British Journal of Political Science, World Development, Polity, Comparative Political Studies, Comparative Politics, Business and Politics, Journal of Democracy, and India Review.
Steven K. Vogel is Director of the Political Economy Program, the Il Han New Professor of Asian Studies, and a Professor of Political Science and Political Economy at the University of California, Berkeley. He specializes in the political economy of the advanced industrialized nations, especially Japan. He is the author of Marketcraft: How Governments Make Markets Work (2018), Japan Remodeled: How Government and Industry Are Reforming Japanese Capitalism (2006), Freer Markets, More Rules: Regulatory Reform in Advanced Industrial Countries (1996), and co-editor (with Naazneen Barma) of The Political Economy Reader: Contending Perspectives and Contemporary Debates(2022).
John Yasuda is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University, specializing in regulatory governance, bureaucratic politics, and comparative political economy. His most recent book is On Feeding the Masses: An Anatomy of Regulatory Failure in China (Cambridge University Press, 2017). His work has been published with Comparative Politics, China Policy Journal, Regulation and Governance, the China Quarterly, and the Journal of Politics. He is now working on a second book, Necessary Fictions: The State, Stock Markets, and Growth in E. Asia, which explores the politics of financialization in China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley. He previously taught at the Hamilton-Lugar School of Global and International Studies at Indiana University. He is also a research associate at the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for the Study of Contemporary China.
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