Abstract
A newly emerged normative development idea of sustainability has been evolving, which was institutionalised by the UN in 2015, and which strongly reinforced, as an exogenous factor, all the responsible and accountable governments and other society actors within a country. In this context, understanding the importance of how this is institutionalised (endogenised) into society well deserves careful analysis. However, literature investigating such endogenising process within a country has received relatively less attention particularly in the context of normative force of sustainability. Therefore, this chapter is designed to explore why countries respond to external force (e.g., sustainability and technological innovation) differently and how the endogenous process affects such response. These two conceptual curiosities are addressed by in-depth theoretical analysis of competitive political economy and institutionalism in the process of development.
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LMEs with liberal welfare states which are all English-speaking, relying upon market mechanisms to coordinate production and redistribution; CMEs with conservative welfare states which are continental European countries except for Japan, relying upon the state and civil society to coordinate production and redistribution but in ways that reinforce existing social inequalities such as occupational status; and CMEs with social-democratic welfare states which are all Nordic, being distinguished by a national coordination of production and welfare in ways that enforce a commitment to social equality. Each of three group’s commonality is interpreted by a combination of culture and material circumstances, namely newly introduced concept of ‘policy style’.
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Baek, S.J. (2018). Comparative Perspective on Modernisation and Institutionalism. In: The Political Economy of Neo-modernisation. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91394-0_3
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