Doctoral Dissertation Research in Political Science: The Political Economy of Subnational Industrial Promotion in India and Mexico

这篇博士论文的研究超越了现有的关于经济发展政治的文献，专注于次国家层面的产业促进计划的政治经济学。市场化改革与行政权力下放相结合，增加了地方政府在促进工业发展方面的重要性，但我们对地方政府在工业促进方面采取的行动的级别或类型没有充分的解释。这篇博士论文研究结合了对印度和墨西哥三个邦产业政策的深入定性比较，以及对次国家政策选择的大-n横截面时间序列分析。这项研究侧重于国家以下各级发展政策的水平和类型的差异，加强了我们对体制背景如何在各种政策选择中形成政策选择的理解。这位博士生利用了各种类型的证据，包括对当选官员、政党领导人、部委官员、国内实业家、工会官员、行业协会领导人和外国投资者的采访；对工业发展办公室和私营部门发展组织的调查；对立法记录的检查；以及对体制因素的衡量，包括行政权力、立法专业精神、政党制度的竞争平衡以及劳动力和商业实力。利用这些类型的信息，本研究在对印度和墨西哥的国家政治进行比较分析的基础上，探索了指导发展政策选择的因素。通过弥合对依赖中央集权主义促进政策的发展努力的研究与强调以市场为导向的放松管制政策的研究之间的差距，本研究有助于发展的政治经济学的理论工作，增强了我们对新兴市场国家的次国家政治的理解，并为理解制度背景的变化如何影响发展战略的选择奠定了更坚实的理论基础。0135674

This Doctoral dissertation research moves beyond the existing literature on the politics of economic development by focusing on the political economy of industrial promotion programs at the subnational level. Market-oriented reforms in combination with administrative decentralization have increased the importance of subnational governments for promoting industrial development, yet we do not have adequate explanations for either the level or the type of subnational government action in industrial promotion. This Doctoral Dissertation Research combines in-depth qualitative comparison of industrial policy in three states in both India and Mexico with a large-n cross-sectional time-series analysis of sub national policy choice. Focusing upon variations both in the level and type of subnational development policy, the research enhances our understanding of the ways in which institutional context shapes policy choices among policy alternatives. The Ph.D. student draws on a variety of types of evidence, including interviews with elected officials, political party leaders, ministry bureaucrats, domestic industrialists, labor union officials, leaders of industrial associations, and foreign investors; surveys of industrial development offices and private sector development organizations; examination of legislative records; and measures of institutional factors, including executive power, legislative professionalism, the competitive balance of the party system, and labor and business strength. Using these types of information, the study explores the factors guiding developmental policy choice on the basis of a comparative analysis of state-level politics in India and Mexico. By bridging the gap separating the study of development efforts that rely upon the statist promotional policies from those emphasizing market-oriented policies of deregulation, the current study contributes to theoretical work on the political economy of development, enhances our understanding of subnational politics in emerging market nations, and establishes a stronger theoretical basis for understanding the ways in which variations in institutional context shape choices among development strategies. 0135674