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Development NGOs, Domestic Politics, and Foreign Aid Allocations 非政府发展组织、国内政治和外援分配

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Studies in Comparative International Development Pub Date : 2024-08-16 DOI: 10.1007/s12116-024-09442-2

Esol Cho

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Regulating to Exclude or to Enable: Institution Building and Transnational Standard Adoption in Mexican Food Safety 监管是为了排斥还是为了扶持？墨西哥食品安全的机构建设与跨国标准采用

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Studies in Comparative International Development Pub Date : 2024-07-27 DOI: 10.1007/s12116-024-09438-y

Gerald A. McDermott, Belem Avendaño Ruiz

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From Rust to High-Tech Hubs: FDI-Led Upgrading of Urban Economies in East Central Europe 从锈迹斑斑到高科技中心：外国直接投资带动中东欧地区城市经济升级

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Studies in Comparative International Development Pub Date : 2024-07-26 DOI: 10.1007/s12116-024-09433-3

Gergő Medve-Bálint

{"title":"From Rust to High-Tech Hubs: FDI-Led Upgrading of Urban Economies in East Central Europe","authors":"Gergő Medve-Bálint","doi":"10.1007/s12116-024-09433-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12116-024-09433-3","url":null,"abstract":"In the semi-peripheral-dependent market economies (DME) of East Central Europe (ECE), foreign investors are major contributors to economic growth and tend to establish low value-added operations. At the same time, they enjoy superior bargaining power over central governments. The domination of FDI constrains domestic agency in shaping economic outcomes, thereby locking DMEs into the semi-periphery. Moving to the sub-national level, this paper challenges these views by arguing that there is considerably more scope for local development agency in DMEs than the comparative political economy literature suggests. Moreover, FDI-led upgrading, defined as multinational companies engaging in high value-added activities, can take place at the local level even without the direct involvement of the state. The paper draws on fieldwork conducted in two formerly declining industrial cities in ECE (Cluj and Gdańsk) that have recently emerged as knowledge-intensive hubs targeted by high value-added FDI. The paper shows that FDI-led upgrading in Gdańsk occurred with the active contribution and cooperation of both local private and public economic actors, whereas in Cluj, upgrading took place with the contribution of local universities and through the forging of business links between foreign capital and local firms established by expatriates and local engineers.","PeriodicalId":47488,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Comparative International Development","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141784048","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Development Pathways and the Political Economy of Maladaptation: The Case of Bioenergy as a Climate Strategy in Brazil 发展道路与适应不良的政治经济学：巴西将生物能源作为气候战略的案例

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Studies in Comparative International Development Pub Date : 2024-07-17 DOI: 10.1007/s12116-024-09439-x

Jorge Ernesto Rodriguez Morales

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Production Networks and Innovation in the Semi-periphery: The Transition to Electric Vehicles in South Korea and Spain 半边缘地区的生产网络与创新：韩国和西班牙向电动汽车的过渡

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Studies in Comparative International Development Pub Date : 2024-07-10 DOI: 10.1007/s12116-024-09436-0

Angela Garcia Calvo

{"title":"Production Networks and Innovation in the Semi-periphery: The Transition to Electric Vehicles in South Korea and Spain","authors":"Angela Garcia Calvo","doi":"10.1007/s12116-024-09436-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12116-024-09436-0","url":null,"abstract":"What determines the ability of firms based in New Advanced Economies to generate innovation in the transition to electric vehicles (EVs)? Under what conditions are they more likely to break with their established pattern as fast followers to create innovation that is new to the world? To address these questions, we introduce a meso-level framework focused on the organization of global production networks. The framework examines three aspects of such networks: the position of the firm within the network, the number of lead firms, and the links between lead firms and suppliers. We illustrate the explanatory power of our framework through the cases of South Korea and Spain, the two New Advanced Economies with the largest automotive sectors. We characterize Korea’s production network as a unipolar, captive structure and Spain’s as part of an EU-wide multipolar, modular production network. We argue that contrary to common perceptions, Korea’s structure delayed the transition to EV’s and strengthened Korea’s role as a fast follower. Meanwhile, Spain’s embeddedness in the EU production network offered significant opportunities for turnkey suppliers to generate novel innovation despite the absence of a domestic lead firm.","PeriodicalId":47488,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Comparative International Development","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141576047","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Firm-Centered Approaches to Overcoming Semi-Peripheral Constraints 以企业为中心克服半边缘制约的方法

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Studies in Comparative International Development Pub Date : 2024-07-02 DOI: 10.1007/s12116-024-09434-2

Sonja Avlijaš, Kira Gartzou-Katsouyanni

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Beyond Dependent Development? The Unlikely Emergence of an Upgrading Alliance in the Case of InoBat in Slovakia 超越依赖性发展？斯洛伐克伊诺巴特公司案例中不可能出现的升级联盟

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Studies in Comparative International Development Pub Date : 2024-06-28 DOI: 10.1007/s12116-024-09440-4

Alen Toplišek

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Semi-Peripheral Pathways to High-Technology Markets: How Organizational Origins Shape Entrepreneurial Ecosystems 通往高科技市场的半边缘之路：组织起源如何塑造创业生态系统

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Studies in Comparative International Development Pub Date : 2024-06-19 DOI: 10.1007/s12116-024-09437-z

Alessandra Cicci, Darius Ornston

{"title":"Semi-Peripheral Pathways to High-Technology Markets: How Organizational Origins Shape Entrepreneurial Ecosystems","authors":"Alessandra Cicci, Darius Ornston","doi":"10.1007/s12116-024-09437-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12116-024-09437-z","url":null,"abstract":"Recent technological changes have created new opportunities for small- and medium-sized firms in the semi-periphery to enter digital markets. At the same time, the need to connect startups with the diverse range of actors and resources which sustain an entrepreneurial ecosystem poses a formidable challenge to regions which have historically suffered from disarticulation. The literature suggests that regions aspiring to support technology startups could benefit from bridging organizations or “entrepreneurial ecosystem incubators” (EEIs) to build civic capital. Comparing two successful EEIs in Toronto and Waterloo, Canada, we find that their organizational structure, specifically the composition of their board, shaped connectivity in important ways. Whereas Communitech, an entrepreneur-led EEI in Waterloo, relied heavily on horizontal, peer-to-peer mentoring among entrepreneurs, MaRS, led by established firms and civic leaders, linked startups to external capital, customers, and other resources within a limited number of industry verticals. Both EEIs supported local startup activity, but they fostered different patterns of collaboration and high-technology competition. This analysis suggests that regional leaders in laggard regions may face a tradeoff in how they support technology startups and nurture entrepreneurial ecosystems.","PeriodicalId":47488,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Comparative International Development","volume":"2015 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141502413","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Votes for Water: Ethnic Service Delivery and Criminality in Karachi, Pakistan 为水投票：巴基斯坦卡拉奇的种族服务提供与犯罪行为

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Studies in Comparative International Development Pub Date : 2024-05-14 DOI: 10.1007/s12116-024-09424-4

Erum A. Haider, Niloufer A. Siddiqui

{"title":"Votes for Water: Ethnic Service Delivery and Criminality in Karachi, Pakistan","authors":"Erum A. Haider, Niloufer A. Siddiqui","doi":"10.1007/s12116-024-09424-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12116-024-09424-4","url":null,"abstract":"How do voters in ethnically polarized settings evaluate coethnic candidates in an environment of hybrid provision of public goods, especially where such hybrid provision includes links to criminal actors? In numerous urban settings around the world, local public goods provision involves a complex mix of private vendors, state services, and criminal actors. This paper explores how voters in Karachi, Pakistan evaluate candidates making distinct claims to water provision. We present findings from a survey experiment of over 2000 Karachi residents surveyed in 2021–2022. We find that while voters generally prefer coethnic candidates regardless of their ability to provide water, a non-coethnic candidate’s access to the state water bureaucracy can decrease the coethnic advantage and increase the credibility of a non-coethnic candidate. This is particularly the case among voters least satisfied with their water supply and most reliant on private sources of water. However, contrary to literature that finds that criminality can signal competence or the likelihood of goods and services being directed to coethnics, ties to the illegal water mafia do not offer either coethnic or non-coethnic candidates any additional advantage.","PeriodicalId":47488,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Comparative International Development","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140932029","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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When Counterinsurgent Institutions Persist: Unpacking Local Wartime Legacies 当反叛乱机构持续存在时：解读地方战时遗留问题

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Studies in Comparative International Development Pub Date : 2024-05-07 DOI: 10.1007/s12116-024-09427-1

Reo Matsuzaki, Rachel A. Schwartz

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