Doctoral Dissertation Research: National Integration or Regional Competition? Industrial Policy Debates in a Rising Power.

这一博士论文项目将调查当代新兴经济体(如巴西、印度和中国等“金砖四国”)如何动员国家行为者、机构和私营企业，以提高它们参与全球市场的质量，并改善地方经济发展的布局。它将通过审查巴西工业发展战略最近的变化来实现这一点。自1980年代以来，大多数发展中国家和新兴国家已不再使用国家主导的产业政策来加速和分配经济增长，并促进融入全球价值链。巴西是这一趋势的一个例外，因为巴西已经瞄准了战略性工业发展倡议，这些倡议既可以加快全球经济一体化的步伐，又可以解决该国东北和东南地区之间历史上的不平衡问题。这个项目将分析伴随着产业政策回归的制度变化，特别强调支持和使国家主导的发展项目得以设计和实施的想象力、意识形态和网络。这些制度变化、理念、网络和项目将与巴西较富裕的东南部地区和较贫穷的东北部地区正在出现的发展成果联系在一起。从理论上讲，该项目利用当代的制度理论、文化政治经济学理论和区域发展的集合理论，对巴西国内产业政策形成和实施背后的意识形态因素和与之相关的争论，以及这些想法和政策制定过程如何影响区域和国家发展目标(如增长、减贫和全球市场一体化)提供了重要的见解。讨论了两组问题：第一，政策转变是如何实现的，为什么实现，以及哪些制度和意识形态转变是这次产业政策重新制定的核心？第二，这些变化对巴西国内工业和社会发展的地理分布，以及更广泛地说，对该国融入世界经济的质量意味着什么？为了回答这些问题，联合PI将分析政府和媒体关于重新出台产业政策的文件，并对相关政策机构和研究中心的官员和关键线人进行广泛的深入采访。为了使该项目具有可比性，选定的机构和个人将来自巴西东南部和东北部地区。这项研究的结果将对当代学者和政策制定者之间关于国家主导的产业政策的好处和缺点的辩论做出重大贡献。研究成果将通过一系列学术出版物、会议演示和向项目参与者和政策官员的演示来传播。通过在该项目中的合作，私人投资机构将与巴西的研究人员和政策制定者建立持久的联系，从而为两国之间的智力交流建立长期的途径。作为博士论文研究改进奖，该项目将提供支持，使有前途的研究生能够建立独立的研究生涯。

This doctoral dissertation project will investigate how contemporary emerging economies (such as the 'BRIC' countries of Brazil, India and China) are mobilizing state actors, institutions, and private firms in order to enhance the quality of their engagement with global markets and to improve the distribution of economic development at the sub-national scale. It will do so by examining recent changes to Brazil's industrial development strategies. Since the 1980s most developing and emerging countries have shifted away from using state-led industrial policy to accelerate and distribute economic growth and facilitate integration into global value chains. Brazil has been an exception to this trend, as the state has targeted strategic industrial development initiatives that can both accelerate the pace of global economic integration while addressing the country's historic imbalance between its Northeast and Southeast regions. This project will analyze the institutional changes accompanying the return of industrial policy with particular emphasis on the imaginaries, ideologies, and networks that support and enable state-led development projects to be devised and implemented. These institutional changes, ideas, networks, and projects will be linked to emerging development outcomes within Brazil's richer Southeast region and its poorer Northeast region. Theoretically, the project draws on contemporary institutional theory, cultural political economy theory, and assemblage theories of regional development to provide critical insights into the ideological factors behind, and contestations associated with, industrial policy formation and implementation within Brazil and how these ideas and policy-making processes influence regional and national development objectives such as growth, poverty alleviation, and global market integration. Two sets of questions are addressed: First, how and why have the policy shifts been achieved, and what institutional and ideological shifts have been central to this reformulation of industrial policy? Second, what do these changes mean for the geographic distribution of industrial and social development within Brazil, and more broadly for the quality of that country's integration into the world economy? To answer these questions the co-PI will analyze government and media documents about the reintroduction of industrial policy and conduct a wide range of in-depth interviews with officials and key informants from relevant policy institutions and research centers. To enable the comparative aspects of the project, the selected institutions and individuals will be drawn from Brazil's Southeast and Northeast regions. The results from this research will contribute significantly to contemporary debates among academics and policy makers about the benefits and drawbacks of state-driven industrial policies. Research findings will be disseminated through a series of scholarly publications, conference presentations, and presentations to the project's participants and policy officials. Through collaboration in this project the PIs will develop durable ties to researchers and policy makers in Brazil and will thus establish long-term pathways for intellectual exchange between the countries. As a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement award, this project will provide support to enable a promising graduate student to establish an independent research career.