Haggard: The Newly Industrializing Countries in the International System

Haggard, S. 1986. The Newly Industrializing Countries in the International System. World Politics 38, no. 2: 343-70.

"...what domestic political factors account for the different development trajectories of the East Asian and Latin American NICs?" (344).

"States respond differently to the constraints associated with economic interdependence. Dependency is too frequently portrayed as a determinant international structure rather than as a set of shifting constraints within which states seek to maneuver" (346).

"Variation in the social organization of agriculture, the timing of labor mobilization, and the interests and strength of domestic entrepreneurs provide the permissive social conditions underlying the divergent development trajectories of Brazil, Mexico, Korea and Taiwan" (346).

This story is then told in great detail.

"As the foregoing analysis suggests, different national strategies result in different forms of 'dependence' on the world economy. Economic changes in the international system...have facilitated the growth of NICs, but created new bargaining and adjustment problems. The ability to manage these is a function of domestic structures and capacities, as is evidenced by the problems of managing expanded trade and foreign direct investment in manufacturing" (360).

There is much in this piece that I skimmed because there is much in this piece that focuses on comparative politics.