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Anthony P. D'Costa
Associate Professor Ph: (253) 692-4462
Comparative International Development Fax: (253) 692-5718
University of Washington Box Number: 358436
1900 Commerce Street
Tacoma, WA 98402, USA
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On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Jim Devine wrote:
> Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2001 13:58:19 -0700
> From: Jim Devine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [PEN-L:9963] Re: Re: Re: Japan
>
> Anthony wrote:
> >It's not the cleverness of bureaucrats that makes states effective but
> >rather the relationship the state has with various social groups,
> >particularly the bourgeoisie.
>
Jim wrote:
> right. I'd say the big difference between various bureaucracies around the
> world concerns whether they have an effective civil service (so there's a
> certain amount of self-perpetuation, as in England) or it's totally a
> matter of political-party appointments (somewhat like in corporations,
> where the top rules), where there are degrees in-between.
Anthony wrote:>
> >Certainly we cannot assume this relationship to remain
> >immutable. Besides, Japanese capital is transnational enough that pure
> >nationalistic monetary policies may either be not supported nor be effective.
>
Jim wrote:
> yeah. Some people argue that the relative decline of Britain during the
> last century was due not to the incompetence of the bureaucrats as much as
> the international focus of the true ruling class.
>
> Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
>
Wrt Japan I think we can see a similar development. The Japanese state
incubated the bourgeoisie, the latter became powerful with successful
accumulation, the successes themselves created their own contradictions
(current a/c surplus and the like), and the clever bureaucrats don't
really know what to do, notwithstanding the external Anglo-Am pressures
for transparency. The question then is: does success breed its own
failure?
Anthony
