Richard F Doner
Biographic Data
| ID | 1162765 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard F Doner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard F |
| FAMILY NAME | Doner |
| SIGNATURE | DONER R F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Emory University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 388 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Response from the Authors: The Enduring Salience of East Asia's Automotive Experiences - Roundtable on Rick Doner, Gregory Noble, and John Ravenhill, The Political Economy of Automotive Industrializat…
Response from the Authors: The Enduring Salience of East Asia's Automotive Experiences - Roundtable on Rick Doner, Gregory Noble, and John Ravenhill, The Political Economy of Automotive Industrialization in East Asia - Volume 23 Issue 1
Technical Education in the Middle Income Trap: Building Coalitions for Skill Formation
This article analyses variations in the provision (breadth and depth) of skill formation through technical and vocational education (TVE) in secondary education in middle-income countries. A growing consensus blames productivity stagnation for the middle-income trap and advocates more human capital to boost productivity. Building on the extensive political economy literature of skill formation in developed economies, the article emphasises the im…
Getting institutions right: Matching institutional capacities to developmental tasks
Japan in East Asia: Institutions and Regional Leadership
Success As Trap: Crises and Challenges in Export-Oriented Southeast Asia
The Middle-Income Trap: More Politics than Economics
Economists have identified the existence of a middle-income (MI) trap but have yet to analyze the politics of this trap. The authors argue that countries in theMItrap face two major institutional and political challenges. First, the policies necessary to upgrade productivity—as in human capital and innovation—require enormous investment in institutional capacity. Second, these institutional challenges come at a time when political capacity for bu…
Southeast Asia and the Asian and Global Financial Crises
Despite the deleterious impact of the 2008–09 global financial crisis, which seriously undermined mainstream economists' claims that the world economy has matured enough to prevent the return of a global depression, policymakers are still grappling with unchartered territory to insulate their economies from debilitating regional and global contagions. This article provides the introduction to a special issue targeted at dissecting the experience …
Financial Crises and Automotive Industry Development in Southeast Asia
The automotive industries of Southeast Asia have grown significantly but unevenly. Thailand has outperformed its neighbours in Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines with regard to production and, most notably, export volumes. But the Thai auto industry has not exhibited the level of local (indigenous) technology capacity and input growth seen in South Korea, Taiwan and, increasingly, in China. The 1997–98 and 2008 financial and economic crises …
University–Industry Linkages in Thailand: Sources of Weakness in Economic Upgrading
Thailand has achieved impressive and consistent GDP growth over the past half century in large part through extensive economic diversification. Despite these gains, there is growing evidence that Thailand suffers from a significant gap between the advanced nature of its export structure and the much more modest technological levels of its own firms and labour force. Weak university–industry linkages (UILs) contribute to this problem, though there…
The Politics of Uneven Development: Thailand's Economic Growth in Comparative Perspective
Why do some middle-income countries diversify their economies but fail to upgrade – to produce world-class products based on local inputs and technological capacities? Why have the 'little tigers' of Southeast Asia, such as Thailand, continued to lag behind the Newly Industrializing Countries of East Asia? Richard Doner goes beyond 'political will' by emphasizing institutional capacities and political pressures: development challenges vary; upgra…
Political Challenges of Innovation in the Developing World1
In this article, we seek to rectify the absence of political analysis characterizing most literature on innovation and development. Although existing research is careful to note the lack of any single recipe or model of innovation, most scholars identify a range of institutions and policies influencing innovative performance. But such explanations beg the question of where institutions, so critical to policy implementation, actually come from. We…
University–Industry Linkages and Economic Development: The Case of Thailand
Systemic Vulnerability and the Origins of Developmental States: Northeast and Southeast Asia in Comparative Perspective
Scholars of development have learned a great deal about what economic institutions do, but much less about the origins of such arrangements. This article introduces and assesses a new political explanation for the origins of "developmental states"—organizational complexes in which expert and coherent bureaucratic agencies collaborate with organized private sectors to spur national economic transformation. Conventional wisdom holds that developmen…
Growing into Trouble: Institutions and Politics in the Thai Sugar Industry
Why do some economies grow for several years and then stall? One obvious answer is that these economies have “overheated.” Another is that foreign demand for their products has dried up. This article explores a longer-term explanation—namely, that the institutions favorable for one stage of economic growth are less suitable for a subsequent stage. This idea of “growing into trouble” is consistent with Dani Rodrik's argument that the institutions …
Economic Crisis and Technological Trajectories: Hard Disk Drive Production in Southeast Asia
Technology policies, and economic policies more generally, are means by which countries can maintain or increase their autonomy within the international political economy. Concretely, autonomy in this sense refers to a country's capacity to adapt to or insulate domestic industry from external shifts. An important component of this capacity for more advanced developing countries is the ability to sustain technological upgrading, independent of for…
Business Associations and Economic Development: Why Some Associations Contribute More Than Others
Most current theoretical treatments view business associations as rent-seeking, special interest groups. Yet, empirical research in a wide range of developing countries reveals a broad range of functions and activities undertaken by business associations, many of which promote efficiency. These positive functions address crucial development issues (emphasized in the New Institutional Economics) such as strengthening property rights, facilitating …
The New Institutional Economics, Business Associations, and Development
With the demise of development economics in the 1970s, the academic discipline of economics had little specific theorizing on development to offer practioners and proffered instead universal, liberal nostrums of free trade and free markets (Wing, 1990). These universal prescriptions evolved into the first catalogued Washington consensus in the 1980s on the urgency of market-oriented reforms in developing countries (Williamson, 1990). In the 1990s…
Flexible production and political decentralization in the developing world: Elective affinities in the pursuit of competitiveness
Postimperialism and development in Thailand
Limits of State Strength: Toward an Institutionalist View of Economic Development
Analyses of economic growth have drawn on the experiences of the East Asian newly industrializing countries to highlight the contribution of cohesive and autonomous states in the resolution of market failures. Within an explicit collective action and public goods framework, this article argues for an institutionalist approach to development that incorporates, but also goes beyond, statism. Through an examination of auto manufacturing in five coun…
Competitive Ties: Subcontracting in the Japanese Automotive Industry
Driving a Bargain: Automobile Industrialization and Japanese Firms in Southeast Asia
Approaches to the Politics of Economic Growth in Southeast Asia
The pacific rim's record of impressive economic growth over the past twenty years is now well known. While most obvious in Japan, this expansion has been striking in the East Asian Newly Industrialized Countries (NICs): Singapore, Hong Kong, South Korea, and Taiwan. But it has also occurred to varying degrees in four of the original members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN): Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Thailand. …
Weak state—strong country? The Thai automobile case
(1988). Weak state—strong country? The Thai automobile case. Third World Quarterly: Vol. 10, No. 4, pp. 1542-1564
Systemic Vulnerability and the Origins of Developmental States: Northeast and Southeast Asia in Comparative Perspective
Scholars of development have learned a great deal about what economic institutions do, but much less about the origins of such arrangements. This article introduces and assesses a new political explanation for the origins of "developmental states"—organizational complexes in which expert and coherent bureaucratic agencies collaborate with organized private sectors to spur national economic transformation. Conventional wisdom holds that developmen…
The Middle-Income Trap: More Politics than Economics
Economists have identified the existence of a middle-income (MI) trap but have yet to analyze the politics of this trap. The authors argue that countries in theMItrap face two major institutional and political challenges. First, the policies necessary to upgrade productivity—as in human capital and innovation—require enormous investment in institutional capacity. Second, these institutional challenges come at a time when political capacity for bu…
Limits of State Strength: Toward an Institutionalist View of Economic Development
Analyses of economic growth have drawn on the experiences of the East Asian newly industrializing countries to highlight the contribution of cohesive and autonomous states in the resolution of market failures. Within an explicit collective action and public goods framework, this article argues for an institutionalist approach to development that incorporates, but also goes beyond, statism. Through an examination of auto manufacturing in five coun…
Political Challenges of Innovation in the Developing World1
In this article, we seek to rectify the absence of political analysis characterizing most literature on innovation and development. Although existing research is careful to note the lack of any single recipe or model of innovation, most scholars identify a range of institutions and policies influencing innovative performance. But such explanations beg the question of where institutions, so critical to policy implementation, actually come from. We…
Financial Crises and Automotive Industry Development in Southeast Asia
The automotive industries of Southeast Asia have grown significantly but unevenly. Thailand has outperformed its neighbours in Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines with regard to production and, most notably, export volumes. But the Thai auto industry has not exhibited the level of local (indigenous) technology capacity and input growth seen in South Korea, Taiwan and, increasingly, in China. The 1997–98 and 2008 financial and economic crises …
University–Industry Linkages and Economic Development: The Case of Thailand
Getting institutions right: Matching institutional capacities to developmental tasks
The New Institutional Economics, Business Associations, and Development
With the demise of development economics in the 1970s, the academic discipline of economics had little specific theorizing on development to offer practioners and proffered instead universal, liberal nostrums of free trade and free markets (Wing, 1990). These universal prescriptions evolved into the first catalogued Washington consensus in the 1980s on the urgency of market-oriented reforms in developing countries (Williamson, 1990). In the 1990s…
Flexible production and political decentralization in the developing world: Elective affinities in the pursuit of competitiveness
Approaches to the Politics of Economic Growth in Southeast Asia
The pacific rim's record of impressive economic growth over the past twenty years is now well known. While most obvious in Japan, this expansion has been striking in the East Asian Newly Industrialized Countries (NICs): Singapore, Hong Kong, South Korea, and Taiwan. But it has also occurred to varying degrees in four of the original members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN): Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Thailand. …
Southeast Asia and the Asian and Global Financial Crises
Despite the deleterious impact of the 2008–09 global financial crisis, which seriously undermined mainstream economists' claims that the world economy has matured enough to prevent the return of a global depression, policymakers are still grappling with unchartered territory to insulate their economies from debilitating regional and global contagions. This article provides the introduction to a special issue targeted at dissecting the experience …
Growing into Trouble: Institutions and Politics in the Thai Sugar Industry
Why do some economies grow for several years and then stall? One obvious answer is that these economies have “overheated.” Another is that foreign demand for their products has dried up. This article explores a longer-term explanation—namely, that the institutions favorable for one stage of economic growth are less suitable for a subsequent stage. This idea of “growing into trouble” is consistent with Dani Rodrik's argument that the institutions …
Weak state—strong country? The Thai automobile case
(1988). Weak state—strong country? The Thai automobile case. Third World Quarterly: Vol. 10, No. 4, pp. 1542-1564
Driving a Bargain: Automobile Industrialization and Japanese Firms in Southeast Asia
Approaches to the Politics of Economic Growth in Southeast Asia
The pacific rim's record of impressive economic growth over the past twenty years is now well known. While most obvious in Japan, this expansion has been striking in the East Asian Newly Industrialized Countries (NICs): Singapore, Hong Kong, South Korea, and Taiwan. But it has also occurred to varying degrees in four of the original members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN): Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Thailand. …
Limits of State Strength: Toward an Institutionalist View of Economic Development
Analyses of economic growth have drawn on the experiences of the East Asian newly industrializing countries to highlight the contribution of cohesive and autonomous states in the resolution of market failures. Within an explicit collective action and public goods framework, this article argues for an institutionalist approach to development that incorporates, but also goes beyond, statism. Through an examination of auto manufacturing in five coun…
Competitive Ties: Subcontracting in the Japanese Automotive Industry
Postimperialism and development in Thailand
Flexible production and political decentralization in the developing world: Elective affinities in the pursuit of competitiveness
Business Associations and Economic Development: Why Some Associations Contribute More Than Others
Most current theoretical treatments view business associations as rent-seeking, special interest groups. Yet, empirical research in a wide range of developing countries reveals a broad range of functions and activities undertaken by business associations, many of which promote efficiency. These positive functions address crucial development issues (emphasized in the New Institutional Economics) such as strengthening property rights, facilitating …
The New Institutional Economics, Business Associations, and Development
With the demise of development economics in the 1970s, the academic discipline of economics had little specific theorizing on development to offer practioners and proffered instead universal, liberal nostrums of free trade and free markets (Wing, 1990). These universal prescriptions evolved into the first catalogued Washington consensus in the 1980s on the urgency of market-oriented reforms in developing countries (Williamson, 1990). In the 1990s…
Economic Crisis and Technological Trajectories: Hard Disk Drive Production in Southeast Asia
Technology policies, and economic policies more generally, are means by which countries can maintain or increase their autonomy within the international political economy. Concretely, autonomy in this sense refers to a country's capacity to adapt to or insulate domestic industry from external shifts. An important component of this capacity for more advanced developing countries is the ability to sustain technological upgrading, independent of for…
Growing into Trouble: Institutions and Politics in the Thai Sugar Industry
Why do some economies grow for several years and then stall? One obvious answer is that these economies have “overheated.” Another is that foreign demand for their products has dried up. This article explores a longer-term explanation—namely, that the institutions favorable for one stage of economic growth are less suitable for a subsequent stage. This idea of “growing into trouble” is consistent with Dani Rodrik's argument that the institutions …
Systemic Vulnerability and the Origins of Developmental States: Northeast and Southeast Asia in Comparative Perspective
Scholars of development have learned a great deal about what economic institutions do, but much less about the origins of such arrangements. This article introduces and assesses a new political explanation for the origins of "developmental states"—organizational complexes in which expert and coherent bureaucratic agencies collaborate with organized private sectors to spur national economic transformation. Conventional wisdom holds that developmen…
University–Industry Linkages and Economic Development: The Case of Thailand
The Politics of Uneven Development: Thailand's Economic Growth in Comparative Perspective
Why do some middle-income countries diversify their economies but fail to upgrade – to produce world-class products based on local inputs and technological capacities? Why have the 'little tigers' of Southeast Asia, such as Thailand, continued to lag behind the Newly Industrializing Countries of East Asia? Richard Doner goes beyond 'political will' by emphasizing institutional capacities and political pressures: development challenges vary; upgra…
Political Challenges of Innovation in the Developing World1
In this article, we seek to rectify the absence of political analysis characterizing most literature on innovation and development. Although existing research is careful to note the lack of any single recipe or model of innovation, most scholars identify a range of institutions and policies influencing innovative performance. But such explanations beg the question of where institutions, so critical to policy implementation, actually come from. We…
University–Industry Linkages in Thailand: Sources of Weakness in Economic Upgrading
Thailand has achieved impressive and consistent GDP growth over the past half century in large part through extensive economic diversification. Despite these gains, there is growing evidence that Thailand suffers from a significant gap between the advanced nature of its export structure and the much more modest technological levels of its own firms and labour force. Weak university–industry linkages (UILs) contribute to this problem, though there…
Southeast Asia and the Asian and Global Financial Crises
Despite the deleterious impact of the 2008–09 global financial crisis, which seriously undermined mainstream economists' claims that the world economy has matured enough to prevent the return of a global depression, policymakers are still grappling with unchartered territory to insulate their economies from debilitating regional and global contagions. This article provides the introduction to a special issue targeted at dissecting the experience …
Financial Crises and Automotive Industry Development in Southeast Asia
The automotive industries of Southeast Asia have grown significantly but unevenly. Thailand has outperformed its neighbours in Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines with regard to production and, most notably, export volumes. But the Thai auto industry has not exhibited the level of local (indigenous) technology capacity and input growth seen in South Korea, Taiwan and, increasingly, in China. The 1997–98 and 2008 financial and economic crises …
The Middle-Income Trap: More Politics than Economics
Economists have identified the existence of a middle-income (MI) trap but have yet to analyze the politics of this trap. The authors argue that countries in theMItrap face two major institutional and political challenges. First, the policies necessary to upgrade productivity—as in human capital and innovation—require enormous investment in institutional capacity. Second, these institutional challenges come at a time when political capacity for bu…
Success As Trap: Crises and Challenges in Export-Oriented Southeast Asia
Japan in East Asia: Institutions and Regional Leadership
Technical Education in the Middle Income Trap: Building Coalitions for Skill Formation
This article analyses variations in the provision (breadth and depth) of skill formation through technical and vocational education (TVE) in secondary education in middle-income countries. A growing consensus blames productivity stagnation for the middle-income trap and advocates more human capital to boost productivity. Building on the extensive political economy literature of skill formation in developed economies, the article emphasises the im…
Getting institutions right: Matching institutional capacities to developmental tasks
Response from the Authors: The Enduring Salience of East Asia's Automotive Experiences - Roundtable on Rick Doner, Gregory Noble, and John Ravenhill, The Political Economy of Automotive Industrializat…
Response from the Authors: The Enduring Salience of East Asia's Automotive Experiences - Roundtable on Rick Doner, Gregory Noble, and John Ravenhill, The Political Economy of Automotive Industrialization in East Asia - Volume 23 Issue 1
Economics (20 works) · Political science (20 works) · Politics (13 works) · Business (10 works) · Asian Industrial and Economic Development (9 works) · Development economics (9 works) · Economy (8 works) · Economic growth (7 works) · Economic system (7 works) · Market economy (7 works)