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Jalota, Annie. "India: Subsidy State or Developmental State?" Scholarship @ Claremont, 2013. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/645.
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India does not fit easily into existing models of thought on the nature of a state and defies ease of understanding. Though India is most often considered to be a subsidy state, I show in this thesis the notion of the subsidy state does not capture the true nature of the Indian state. Chapter two of the paper looks at various models of understanding the nature of the Indian state and draw out three essential features: competing interest groups, how economic liberalization facilitates corruption and works against India’s aim of equalizing the capabilities and freedoms of all its citizens, and the role of the Indian state in development and how the failure to engage its citizens in the process has resulted in the current system. Chapter three looks at subsidies and cash transfers, discussing the problem of targeting and the design of programs. The fourth chapter, I share the methodology I used to categorize 581 centrally sponsored schemes. I did this to be able to disaggregate centrally sponsored schemes. For each scheme, I identified the state associated with each scheme, the target groups (intended beneficiaries) of each scheme, the types of benefits delivered, whether the receipt of the benefits were conditional or not, and the relevant policy areas of each scheme. I concluded that a closer look at the Indian state reveals that India may actually be more accurately identified as a developmental state which facilitates the enhancement of its citizens’ capabilities and freedoms.
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Zhang, Mei. "Dubai : an emerging developmental state?" Thesis, University of Exeter, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.445729.
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Turrell, Sheri L. "Mental state talk, a developmental perspective." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ50409.pdf.
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Frisk, Mårten. "Economic bureaucracy and the South Korean developmental state." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för samhällsvetenskaper, SV, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-23814.
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South Korea underwent a period of high economic growth which propelled it from low to high income status in just a few decades. Instrumental in this process of rapid industrial transformation was the economic bureaucracy which formulated and implemented policies. This thesis details the role played by bureaucratic organizations in South Korea’s development and how they were able to formulate successful economic policies. In analyzing the economic bureaucracy in South Korea, a framework is used to determine its level of autonomy from special interests as well as the degree of public-private cooperation. The study finds that the high levels of corporate coherence and autonomy from special interests within the economic bureaucracy can partially be ascribed to the meticulously meritocratic recruitment and promotion process which was established prior to the first years of high economic growth. At a higher level of abstraction, the study concludes that South Korea benefited from having a strong imperative to develop its economy due to numerous external and domestic conditions. Although the level of applicability in other contexts is found to be limited, the emergence of a competent and relatively incorrupt bureaucracy remains one aspect which could possibly be reproduced elsewhere.
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Pirie, Iain James. "The Metamorphosis of the Korean developmental state." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.496383.
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Sud, Nikita. "Gurjarat : From developmental state to Hindu Rashtra." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.517023.
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Maserumule, MH. "Reflections on South Africa as developmental state." Journal of Public Administration, 2007. http://encore.tut.ac.za/iii/cpro/DigitalItemViewPage.external?sp=1001419.
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The article reflects on the progress the South African government is making in
realising the imperatives of a developmental state. It examines contemporary
engagements on the issue of a developmental state. At the outset, the
article unpacks the theoretical antecedents of a developmental state to develop a
framework for analysis. In the context of this framework, the article argues that a
developmental state is premised on two dimensions, namely social and economic.
These dimensions are used as a framework to understand how South Africa fares
as a developmental state. In engaging with this question, the article makes an
observation that, notwithstanding service delivery challenges in the country, the
government is seemingly making significant strides in its attempts to realise the social
imperatives of a developmental state. On the economic front, a similar deduction is
difficult to make as debates in this regard are so polarised. The article recommends
that research on Black Economic Empowerment and its impact in maximising citizen
participation in the mainstream economy should be undertaken.
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Bolesta, Andrzej. "China as a post-socialist developmental state : explaining Chinese development trajectory." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2012. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/536/.
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This thesis is intended to contribute to the discussion on China’s socio-economic development during the post-socialist period of reform and opening up. It is aimed at providing an explanation of the Chinese contemporary development trajectory, by establishing an institutional and policy model, which China is believed to have been following. This model is also believed to offer some general solutions to the underdeveloped countries in systemic transformation. The thesis argues that China’s post-socialist development trajectory has been determined by the provisions of the Developmental State (DS) model, as far as state development policies, state ideology, and state institutional arrangements are concerned, and to the extent, that China has become a genus of the Post-Socialist Developmental State (PSDS) model – this model being an alternative to the post-socialist neoliberalism. In the course of scholarly enquiry, China’s development trajectory is analysed against the paths of historical developmental states, and against the general and developmental aspects of the process of post-socialist transformation. I start by analysing the features of the historical developmental states and by investigating whether the provisions of the DS model are viable contemporarily and how the model extends to the discussion on China’s development. I then examine China’s post-socialist transformation, partly in its DS context. Next, I analyse the features of China’s development trajectory in comparison with the features of historical developmental states, as far as ideology and political and economic arrangements as well as state development policies are concerned. Finally, based on the previous analyses, I explain the DS-determined postsocialist development trajectory of China, address the causal relation between the DS institutionalisation and post-socialist transformation, and construct the PSDS model, as a general guideline for states in transition.
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Visessuvanapoom, Vinit. "State and economy in Thailand: the possibility of establishing a developmental state." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2006. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/28173.
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This dissertation addresses the question of whether the Thai state is already a
developmental state or could readily become one early in the 21St century. To begin with it identifies the two principal conditions that have to be satisfied, namely commitment to develop and state capacity to influence development. The latter of ‘which in turn depends on the state’s general authority (legitimacy) and its general regulatory capacity. The focus of the dissertation is on the particular capacities that can be said to characterise a developmental state in the present era. These particular capacities are, first, the particular capacities providing the basis of industry policy as identified in the analyses of the earlier formation of developmental states by Chalmers Johnson and his successors and, second, certain complementary capacities which are required to meet the challenges of the twenty—first century. The body of the dissertation is an examination of whether, and to what extent, the particular capacities exist within Thailand or could readily be brought into existence. The dissertation further examines the commitment to development in Thailand through an examination of contemporary Thai polity and specifically the state’s ability, under a Thaksin administration in particular, to govern conflicts within the Thai polity in a manner consistent with broad development. It is recognised that insofar as the state’s capacity to influence development also depends on its general authority (the legitimacy of the state), that authority also is sensitive to its ability to govern conflict resolution. The dissertation ends by speculating about how different the commitment to development might be under another Democrat-led administration. The overall conclusion of the dissertation is that, while the Thai state does indeed possess critical capacities for the pursuit of industry policy, other essential capacities - fundamental and complementary
— as well as legitimacy and commitment to development are weak and not obviously being strengthened. That being the case, it would only be wishful thinking to say that Thailand is already a developmental state.
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Ibbett, D. A. "A developmental system for solid state NMR imaging." Thesis, University of Kent, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.380989.
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Kofi-Opata, Edwina. "Alternative Energy and the Developmental State in Ghana." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1368117768.
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Maundeni, Zibani. "Development and the developmental state : a comparative analysis of Botswana and Zimbabwe." Thesis, University of York, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.323505.
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MacNeil, Robert. "Neoliberal Climate Policy in the United States: From Market Fetishism to the Developmental State." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/23587.
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The research question animating this project is ‘what is the nature of neoliberalism’s influence on recent and contemporary US climate change policy?’ Situating itself against several growing bodies of literature which have sought to underscore the fetishism of markets in recent environmental and climate policy agendas under neoliberalism – e.g., the work of Heynen et al (2007) on ‘neoliberal environments’; Paterson and Newell’s (2010) work on neoliberalism and carbon markets; and the work of Dryzek et al (2003) on state forms and ecological modernization – this project argues that any such analysis must be predicated on a considerably more nuanced conception of (a) ‘neoliberalism’, (b) the historic role of states in fostering accumulation, and (c) the nature of policy development within any specific neoliberal context. Applying these theoretical re-conceptualizations to the American context, the project argues that a central tension informing contemporary US climate policy under neoliberalism can be understood a stand-off between two prevailing logics in the federal policy process: on the one hand, Washington’s attempt to build on its tradition of using state power to foster high-tech market development by cultivating the alternative energy realm as a developmental state project, and on the other, the anti-regulationist bent of neoliberalism which seeks to delegitimize the ‘pull’ policies required to ‘creatively destroy’ conventional energy and animate domestic alternative energy markets. Against the general conception of the US as a ‘climate laggard’ whose policy options are restricted market mechanisms and generally anathema to progressive ecological modernization, this body of work shows how the US has managed to develop a robust set of interventionist ‘push’ and ‘pull’ climate policies along ‘alternative policy pathways’, despite the prevailing anti-state rhetoric of neoliberalism.
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Penderis, Sharon. "State–society relations in the ‘South African developmental state’: integrated development planning and public participation at the local level." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/4548.
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Philosophiae Doctor - PhDIn various formulations, the idea of a developmental state has appeared in official discourse in South Africa since the advent of democratic government in 1994, albeit that its adoption as state policy has been slow, uneven and inconsistent with the original East Asian model. What has been a feature of developmental state thinking in South Africa is the fact that the concept has been so poorly articulated in policy that it has come to mean different things to different state actors and to the public. This has been aggravated by the fact that the idea of a strongly interventionist developmental state has run counter to the idea of a diminished state enunciated in various neo-liberal policies. Moreover, unlike the authoritarian and top-down East Asian model, the government envisages a South African developmental state which is infused with democratic content where citizens assist in the formulation of policy from below. In its emphasis on a bottom-up approach to policy formulation the South African model differs markedly from the conventional idea of a developmental state which is heavily reliant on a strong central bureaucracy to drive economic growth. In the South African model local government has been assigned a pivotal role in addressing persistent economic exclusion and uneven development. A central tenet of this approach is the need for local authorities to institutionalise participatory processes at grassroots level and devise effective structures and processes to facilitate citizen participation in local affairs. In the light of the above, this thesis sets out to examine the manner in which a system of developmental local government is being implemented in the City of Cape Town. Taking as a case study the township of Delft, the study looks at the systems and processes (and particularly the process of integrated development planning) set in place to advance citizen participation. It examines the extent to which the model is perceived to be achieving its goals from the perspective of political office bearers, officials from different spheres of government and residents. The research found that notwithstanding an enabling legislative and policy framework, there is little comprehension of, or interest, in the idea of developmental local government and municipal officials largely pay lip service to participatory processes which are carried out in a top-down fashion and which neither empower local residents nor enhance their welfare. It also concluded that developmental government, in its present form, is contributing little to the establishment of a national developmental state.
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Osei-Kwadwo, Edward Carleton University Dissertation Political Science. "Bringing the developmental state back in: Ghana, 1982-1994." Ottawa, 1996.
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Alshamsi, Abdul Kareem Mohammad. "The global developmental state : the triple non-alliance of state bureaucrats, domestic capital and foreign capital in Korean economic development." Thesis, Northumbria University, 2011. http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/2212/.
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Maeng, Hwayoen. "Aprender com o passado : trajetória do estado desenvolvimentista coreano e a sua possibilidade de renascimento." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/109271.
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Crescimento econômico surpreendente da Coreia vale a pena receber atenção devido à importância do papel do Estado no seu sucesso chamado Estado Desenvolvimentista. Estado Desenvolvimentista Coreano tem sua origem na década de 1950 construindo obras básicas institucionais como a reforma agrária, quadro jurídico, formação e reorganização da burocracia e agências de planejamento econômico. A partir dos anos 1960, foi um período bem sucedido do Estado Desenvonvimentista caracterizando a existência de agência piloto, a estratégia nacional para o plano de crescimento econômico no longo prazo, a capacidade do Estado que vem de burocratas qualificados, coesão da organização burocrática, políticas de industrialização seletivos e autonomia enraizada. No entanto, o Estado desenvolvimentista começou a desaparecer a partir da década de 1980 com o movimento pró- democrático e da globalização. A Coreia ainda não perfeitamente convergiu para os países avançados. Além disso, a definição de desenvolvimento não é mais apenas o crescimento econômico, mas também alcançar bem-estar e desenvolvimento humano. A Coreia está agora lutando para encontrar uma nova estratégia de desenvolvimento. Esta dissertação identificou três grandes eixos de discussões sobre o papel do Estado na Coreia contemporânea, quais sejam: (i) o Estado regulador; (ii) o Estado corporativo, responsável pela concertação social e pela indução de um modelo corporativo competitivo; e (iii) o Estado Desenvolvimentista. Esta dissertação prova que a única alternativa é Estado do Desenvolvimento reconfigurado. Ao analisar o sucesso do passado, o renascimento de Estado do Desenvolvimento pode ser alcançado. Aprender com o passado iria mostrar o caminho da sua reconfiguração.Astonishing economic growth of Korea is worthy of notice due to the importance of the state’s role on its success so called the Developmental State. Korean Developmental State has its origin in the 1950s constructing institutional basic works as land reform, legal framework, formation and reorganization of bureaucracy and economic planning agencies. From the 1960s, it has been successful period of Developmental State characterized as the existence of pilot agency, national strategy for long-term economic growth plan, state capacity that comes from qualified bureaucrats, cohesiveness of bureaucratic organization, selective industrialization policies and embedded autonomy. However, the dismantlement of the developmental state has begun to take place from the 1980s with the pro-democratic movement and globalization. Korea has not yet perfectly converged to the advanced countries. Moreover, the definition of development is not just economic growth anymore but also achieving welfare through human development. Korea is now struggling to find new development strategy. Three major discussions for further development are 1) regulatory state, 2) social concertation and competitive corporatist and 3) Neo Developmental State. The thesis here proves the only alternative is Developmental State and it has to be succeeded and reconfigured. By analyzing the success of the past, the revival of Developmental State can be achieved. Learning from the past would show the way of its reconfiguration.
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Pham, Hung Hung. "'The developmental state', the evolving international economic order, and Vietnam." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2012. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/3802/.
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The developmental state has been widely credited as the most important factor behind the East Asian post-ar “miracles.” Indeed, it is generally seen as having helped to shift the weight of the international economic order towards ‘the East.’ However, the dominance of processes associated with ‘globalisation’ at the beginning of the twenty-first century is commonly thought to have substantially undermined the viability and potential of this state-led development model. Yet, the recent rapid transformation of some emerging economies, notably China and Vietnam, suggests that this economic development model may remain important even in an era of globalisation. Taking Vietnam as a case study, this thesis argues that despite significant differences in the actions, capacities and ideological orientations between the Vietnamese state and other states in the region, the political leaders of Vietnam have followed the interventionist, state-led pattern of development that is connected to the successful East Asian developmental states. As a consequence, and on the basis of the original empirical research undertaken here, the thesis further argues that despite the potentially transformative impact of processes associated with globalisation, the developmental state, or the state-led development model, remains a viable, influential, and persistent feature of the development processes in Vietnam.
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SAI, Khaing Myo Tun. "Politics of Development in Myanmar (1988-2009): Comparison with Indonesia under Suharto's New Order." 名古屋大学大学院国際開発研究科, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2237/14549.
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Chang, Dae-oup. "Demystifying the developmental state : a critique of the theories and practices of the state in the development of capital relations in Korea." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2003. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/1233/.
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My thesis aims to demystify the form of the Korean state by unveiling the theoretical shortcomings of developmental state theories and re-examining the historical development of the Korean state in the context of the formation and reproduction of capital relations in Korea. The first part develops a Marxist critique of theories of the developmental state. Through a close reading of Marxist theories of the state and Marx's own theory of value and commodity fetishism, I derive an understanding of the state as a differentiated moment of the reproduction of capital relations. Accordingly, I define the most serious theoretical shortcoming of the statist approach as its understanding of the state as a set of institutions and of capital as a set of businessmen. This approach enabled statist to define the state in East Asia as a state 'autonomous' from capital by deriving the form of the state from the nature of the seriously narrowed-down state-society relations as relations between state officials and a group of businessmen. On the basis of an understanding of capital as a social relation through which social labour is organised toward commodity production to make profits, and of the state as a social form through which unequal class relations are inverted into class-neutral relations between citizens, I argue that the developmental autonomy of the state, which underlies developmental state theory, results from a mystified form of the capitalist state and contributes to mystifying the state further. In the second half of this thesis, I present the Asian 'developmental state' as resulting from a particular mystification of the state in the historical development of the highly politicised formation and reproduction of capitalist social relations, in which the state's complementary role to capitalist development was maximised in suppressing labour, on the one hand, but also at the same time its differentiation from individual capitals in strictly regulating financial flows and selectively promoting industries developed to a great extent, on the other. An extensive investigation into the state's involvement in forming and reproducing capital relations in the 1960s and 1970s shows the real process of building-up the mystified state. Furthermore, I will show the demise of this mystified state through analysing crises of the politicised reproduction of capital relations, by a massive politicisation of domestic class conflicts, on the one hand, and the weakening of state control over individual capitals, particularly over the chaebol (Korean conglomerates) as capitalist development deepened in a growing involvement in the global economy from the 1980s, on the other. On the basis of this historical exposition, I also attempt to grasp the nature of the restructuring of capital relations in Korea in the aftermath of the Asian crisis in 1997, which is understood as an ultimate expression of the amalgamation of the crisis of the early configuration of capitalist social relations with the growing involvement of Korean capitals into the crisis-ridden development of global capitalism. Looking closely at the development of the increasing marketisation of the reproduction of capital relations, I argue that, although the form of the state has undergbne a significant transition, it is still subjected to the further development of new forms and subjectivity of class struggle, through which the unresolved contradiction of the newly created basis of capital accumulation manifested itself by putting the market-based reformulation of capital relations into an increasingly difficult condition.
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Fulton, Robert William. "Postsceondary developmental and remedial education : perspectives of state legislature education chairpersons and state higher education executive officers /." Full text (PDF) from UMI/Dissertation Abstracts International, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p9992793.
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Nimis, Sara Rose. "Mythologies of a developmental state ambition and action in Nasser's Egypt /." Connect to this document online, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1126661827.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Miami University, Dept. of Political Science, 2005.Title from first page of PDF document. Document formatted into pages; contains [1], ii, 71 p. Includes bibliographical references (p. 66-71).
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Mahada, Livhuwani Paul. "Education policy to prospects of a developmental state in South Africa." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/17925.
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Thesis (MPA)--Stellenbosch University, 2011.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The relevance of education to economic growth has been widely debated. The thesis argues that education is the core factor in knowledge and skills provision, which assist in production and economic growth and serves as a foundation to the realization of a developmental state. The thesis looks at the prospects of South Africa constructing a developmental state against its education system. The aim was to look at whether education policy in South Africa assists its quest to construct a developmental state. The research is guided by the specific research questions that wanted to look at different literature on what a developmental state is and what characterizes it. It further looked at whether education influences the construction of a developmental state and whether in South Africa education is responding well to the quest of constructing a developmental state. The study depends heavily on literature review, comparative study and interview. The literature study conceptualized and also presented characteristics of a developmental state from the perspective of Japan, South Korea and Taiwan (The Asian Tigers) and the South African context. Japan and South Korea’s perspective was compared with the South African one. The literature review also indicated the role of education in economic growth. The findings of this research from the comparative analysis indicated that South Africa is taking a totally different approach in its process of constructing a developmental state. Its process is underpinned by democratic values, non-industrialization approach, weak bureaucracy and interventionist approach. The process of constructing a developmental state is supported by various mechanisms and policies such as the New Growth Path (NGP). The challenge with the NGP is that it conceded to the fact that there is a serious need to improve in education and levels of skills in the country as they are a fundamental prerequisite for achieving many of the goals in the growth path. The contention is that both basic and higher education must equip all South Africans to participate in the country’s democracy and economy and must do more to meet the needs of national and international development imperatives. Again, the success of the NGP depends on major improvements in education (both basic and higher education) and skills levels which education is presently not providing. Education and skills are preconditions that should prepare South Africans to participate in economy so that the country should realize “broad-based development” through any means that will ensure economic growth. However, the education system and the skills based in the country are not responding well to assist in the fully realization of the NGP. This has negative effect to the prospects of growing the economy. The research highlights the relevance and role education plays in the economic development of a country. It highlights the challenge South Africa is faced with in its quest to construct a developmental state particularly with its education policies. With education being regarded as a significant propeller of economic growth, South Africa falls short in comparison to other countries, particularly the Asian Tigers. South Africa falls short mainly in the provision of education that provides the skills required in the modern economies. This means that there is a gap the education system in South Africa is failing to fill. Therefore the prospects of constructing in a developmental state in South Africa will continually face challenges if the education system within the country is not turned around to provide for the required skills.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die verband tussen onderwys en ekonomiese vooruitgang is al deeglik gedebateer. Hierdie tesis voer aan dat onderwys die kernfaktor is in die voorsiening van kennis en vaardighede wat vervaardiging en ekonomiese vooruitgang aanhelp en dien as die grondslag vir die totstandkoming van ’n ontwikkelingsstaat. Die tesis kyk of dit moontlik is vir Suid-Afrika om ’n ontwikkelingsstaat tot stand te bring met sy huidige onderwysstelsel. Die doel was om te sien of die huidige onderwysbeleidsrigting Suid-Afrika kan meehelp in sy soektog om ’n ontwikkelingsstaat daar te stel. Die navorsing word gerig deur spesifieke navorsingsvrae wat verskillende literatuur ondersoek het om te bepaal wat ’n ontwikkelingsstaat is en hoe dit gekarakteriseer word. Dit kyk ook verder of onderwys die daarstelling van ’n ontwikkelingsstaat beinvloed en of Suid-Afrika se onderwysstelsel goed reageer in strewe na die daarstelling van ’n ontwikkelingsstaat. Die studie steun sterk op die beskouing van literatuur, vergelykingstudies en onderhoude. Die literatuurstudie het ’n begrip en kenmerke van ’n ontwikkelingsstaat vanuit die perspektief van Japan, Suid-Korea en Taiwan (Die Asiaatiese Tiere) en die Suid-Afrikaanse verband voorgelê. Japan en Suid-Korea se perspektief was vergelyk met die van Suid-Afrika. Die literatuur beskouing het ook die rol van onderwys in ekonomiese vooruitgang aangedui. Die bevindings van hierdie navorsing nadat ’n vergelykende analise uitgevoer is, het aangedui dat Suid-Afrika ’n heel ander benadering volg in sy ontwikkelingsstaat daarsetellings proses. Die Suid-Afrikaanse proses word onderstut deur demokratiese waardes, nie-nywerheidsbenadering, swak burokrasie en ’n intervensionistiese-benadering. Die proses tot ’n ontwikkelingsstaat word ondersteun deur verskeie meganismes en beleidsrigtings soos die nuwe groeibaan (New Growth Path [NGP]). Die uitdaging met die NGP is dat dit alreeds onderskryf het dat daar ’n ernstige behoefte is aan ’n verbeterde onderwysstelsel en vaardigheidsvlakke in die land, want dit is grondvereistes om baie van die doelwitte in die NGP te bereik. Die standpunt is dat beide basiese- en hoëronderwys alle Suid-Afrikaners sal moet toerus om deel te neem in die land se demokrasie en ekonomie en sal meer moet doen te voldoening aan die behoeftes van nasionale en internasionale ontwikkelingsnoodsaaklikhede. Weereens, die sukses van die NGP maak staat op groot verbeterings in die onderwysstelsel (beide basiese- en hoëronderwys) en vaardigheidsvlakke wat die onderwysstelsel tans nie verskaf nie. Onderwys en vaardighede is voorvereistes om Suid-Afrika voor te berei om deel te neem in die ekonomie en derhalwe die land in staat te stel om “breed-gebaseerde ontwikkeling” te bereik op ‘n manier wat ekonomiese vooruitgang verseker. Die land se onderwysstelsel en vaardigheidsbasis reageer egter swak om die volle bereiking van die NGP te ondersteun. Dit het ’n negatiewe uitwerking op die vooruitsigte van ekonomiese vooruitgang. Die navorsing lig die belangrikheid en die rol wat onderwys in die ekonomiese ontwikkeling van ’n land speel uit. Die uitdagings wat Suid-Afrika het word uitgelig in sy soektog om ’n ontwikkelingsstaat op te stel veral ten opsigte van sy onderwysbeleidsrigtings. Met onderwys wat as ’n beduidende drywer geag word ten opsigte van ekonomiese vooruitgang, skiet Suid-Afrika te kort vergeleke met ander lande, veral met die Asiatiese Tiere. Suid-Afrika skiet hoofsaaklik ook te kort met die voorsiening van onderwys wat die vereiste vaardighede moet ontwikkel wat ’n moderne ekonomie benodig. Dit beteken dat daar ’n leemte in die Suid-Afrikaanse onderwysstelsel is. Die vooruitsigte om ’n ontwikkelingsstaat in Suid-Afrika te vestig sal voortdurend voor uitdagings te staan kom totdat die onderwysstelsel van die land reggeruk word om die vereiste vaardighede te ontwikkel.
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Nimis, Sara Rose. "MYTHOLOGIES OF A DEVELOPMENTAL STATE: AMBITION AND ACTION IN NASSER’S EGYPT." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1126661827.
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Van, Der Pol Barbara. "Partner-specific abstinence state change in adolescent women." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2007. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3283959.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation, 2007.Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-10, Section: A, page: 4218. Adviser: Mohammad R. Torabi. Title from dissertation home page (viewed May 20, 2008).
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Fine, John D. B. "The improbable state: the prospects for a developmental turn in North Korea." Thesis, Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/43913.
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Approved for public release; distribution is unlimitedThis thesis examines the prospects of North Korean economic reform. It provides a comparative analysis of Chinese conditions that led to the economic reforms implemented by Deng Xiaoping and the conditions that are present in North Korea today. This thesis argues that reform is, in fact, possible in North Korea and that China provides it a viable model with which to do so; however, there are certain criteria that must be fulfilled. This argument takes place in two parts. First, it explores theoretical models of predatory and developmental states. Second, it applies these theories to China and North Korea in order to establish their parallels and determine the prospects for North Korea to become a developmental state. This thesis establishes that North Korea is not inherently doomed to failure, as many seem to claim. Rather, it is entirely possible for the state to survive and even prosper with the right inputs. Unfortunately, this is an improbable outcome because the leadership continually refuses to provide these inputs. This fact has important policy implications. For, if policymakers can negotiate in pursuit of the common benefit of the regime and the people, it provides greater incentive for cooperation.
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Park, Hyungguen. "Politics of disaster in the post-developmental state : Seoul and Jeju, Korea." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2014. http://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/politics-of-disaster-in-the-postdevelopmental-state-seoul-and-jeju-korea(88402bed-467e-4ac4-b54f-7909e128d335).html.
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This thesis explores political reflections on the emerging risks of hazard and climate change in the post-developmental South Korean state. Several cases of both actual and anticipated risk are investigated regarding contribution to reshaping a political landscape in which change might unfold. Three analytical frames (changes in social expectation, institutional change and social innovation) are elaborated. In addition, the Risk Society thesis (and its Korean counterpart dual-risk society thesis), studies of disaster and climate change adaptation inform this research. Employing a multifocal lens, the thesis problematises conventional, apolitical approaches to disaster risk, particularly in terms of their dichotomous conceptualisation of society and nature. This research finds critical realism appropriate, due in particular to its ontological account of power relations and the driving forces of change. Using informal interviews, reviews of existing, relevant literature, as well as observation, this thesis reclaims the political space of the discourse of development and disaster risk. Issues of hazard, risk and climate change were found unfamiliar to most of the interviewees. There also emerged a translation issue between Korean and English during the stage of data analysis. The ways that these challenges were overcome are explained in detail. This thesis contains strong evidence to suggest that disasters triggered by natural hazards and changing risk perception in Korea have surfaced as a political issue. More importantly, this research finds that hazard and risk can shake the existing discursive space in which alternative ideas can possibly transform into wider societal change. For this reason, issues like DRR and CCA can also be kept apolitical by existing discursive alliances that can benefit from ideological and institutional stability. The thesis concludes by pinpointing the importance of steering different forms of freedom for the fruits of incremental change to transform into the disaster-specific resilience that is key to transformative CCA.
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Chen, Ying-Yu. "Continuity and discontinuity of the developmental state : a case study of Taiwan." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1983/d129f085-b2dd-4144-8f20-6ac264052ff0.
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Meier, Nicola. "China - the new developmental state? an empirical analysis of the automotive industry." Frankfurt, M. Berlin Bern Bruxelles New York, NY Oxford Wien Lang, 2008. http://d-nb.info/99178166X/04.
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Lee, Daphnee Hui Lin. "From Cradle to Playpen: the management of Chineseness in developmental state Singapore." Phd thesis, Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/49385.
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The way Chineseness is managed by the state in ethnic Chinese majority nations is examined as a late-industrializing initiative. Using Singapore as the case study, identifications with Chineseness were studied for the key themes within late-industrializing discourse constructions. Chinese Singaporean respondents were asked for their interpretation of Chineseness in relation to their Western expatriate and Chinese mainlander colleagues. In some cases, Orientalist constructions emerged. This inquiry found the moderating factors of Orientalist discourse replications to be the respondent’s childhood socioeconomic background and linguistic primacy. The findings lent insights to the persistence of Orientalist constructions amongst individuals in late-industrializing societies. Insights as to how late-industrializing discourses constructions are moderated by factors distinctive from first-mover ones were sought. These insights enrich the theoretical framework of nation branding studies, a recent offshoot of nation studies with a marketing slant. Sociological considerations on the reproduction of late-industrializing predispositions were integrated through the concept of marcotted developmentalism. Marcotted developmentalism is advanced as the thesis’ conceptual framework. It explains the mediation of the late-industrializing landscape by two distinctive features. Firstly, ethnic management initiatives communicate the urgency of accelerated economic development amongst late-industrializing societies. Secondly, it emphasizes the presence of dual hegemony (i.e. Western dominance and Chinese ascendency) within the late-industrializing political economy.
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Mahlatsi, Lehlohonolo Kennedy. "An evaluation of the developmental role of local government in fighting poverty in the Free State / L.K. Mahlatsi." Thesis, North-West University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/2495.
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Harris, Miles. "Assessing the impact of developmental mathematics on college students /." Connect to resource online, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1222193732.
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Luu, Minh Duc. "Governing Privatisation (Equitisation) in Vietnam: an Inquiry within an Institutionalist Perspective." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/17803.
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This dissertation presents the findings of an investigation into the governance of privatisation (equitisation) in Vietnam from an institutionalist perspective. It examines the political economy of privatisation policy, in terms of both theory and practice, to answer the following research question: What constitutes and influences the privatisation policy discourse and the implementation process, and in particular how is the governance of the latter to be understood? Privatisation developed under the influence of neoliberalism as a policy in developed economies, where its success has been uneven, conditional and contested. It was introduced into developing countries as a one-size-fits-all solution, regardless of the embryonic status of their institutional development. Practical experiences of transition economies in the CEE and the former CIS and the developmental states in East Asia reveal alternative approaches to privatisation, with contrasting outcomes. Because the transfer of assets from public to private ownership involves ideological arbitrariness and contestation between private interests, privatisation is a politically constructed project – a political construction. Broad economic and social objectives can only be achieved if the process is properly governed, and productive efficiency improvement will only be realised if it is based on the development of an institutional framework. In its approach to privatisation, the Vietnamese party-state has vacillated between neoliberalism and developmental states, with neither philosophy being pursued completely or successfully. This dissertation argues that, as Vietnam faces the challenge of sustaining economic growth, it should pursue the philosophy of the developmental state, and that a broad range of economic and social development stakeholder objectives – including the state’s need for capacity to coordinate investments and achieve social equity – should be taken into account in privatisation, rather than the sole objective of supporting narrowly-defined shareholder values.
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Chagunda, Chance Arisitaliko. "South Africa's social assistance intervention as a building block of a developmental state." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8691.
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This study explores the extent to which South Africa's social assistance programme can constitute a building block of a developmental state. Using a critical research approach and Taylor's conceptual framework (2002) that draws on Sen's understanding of development as freedom, I explore the impact of cash transfers on households, on access to socio-economic opportunities and to the overall development of local democracy. Sen's capability approach and theoretical analysis of development helps to link different dimensions of poverty with human and institutional capabilities. There are five research objectives: examining whether a cash transfer has a developmental impact on the people who receive it; establishing whether cash transfers improve opportunities for households to take part in socio-economic activities; investigating how cash transfers promote civic participation and local democracy; ascertaining ways in which cash transfers promote development; and ascertaining the extent to which a cash transfer could be a significant feature of a developmental state. The findings are in two parts. The first is a review of the relevant literature. Previous studies have found that social grants can lead to poverty reduction, help to send dependents to school and enable respondents to get loans to start their own businesses. The second part consists of new findings, based on interviews from a purposive sample of 160 men and women from Khayelitsha and Graafwater in the Western Cape who received a social grant. The respondents perceived the cash transfer as opening up socio-economic opportunities for them, such as skills training. Social grants also reportedly enabled women to break free of abusive relationships and function independently, which they described as restoring their human dignity and freedom. Further, 46% indicated that the social grant income assisted them to become active citizens. A minority of respondents, especially those with small businesses or employment, perceive the grants as a backup in case of business failure or retrenchment. My assumption of cash transfers having a developmental impact has been confirmed. In conclusion, the thesis expands the theoretical and policy understanding of social assistance beyond its impacts on income poverty and provides new insights on the multiple ways through which cash transfers enable poor household members to participate in enterprise development and in building local democracy. Based on the findings, recommendations are offered to government and stakeholders.
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Amital, Eden Noa. "Developmental Measures: The Zika Virus, Microcephaly, and Histories of Global Northern State Anxieties." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2017. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1035.
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This project seeks to understand anxious and fearful responses to the Zika virus and microcephaly that began circulating widely in February, 2016. My project works to uncover racial histories embedded in the contemporary scientific and medical practice of measuring head circumference. By arguing that microcephaly is a racialized metric of civilizational and human development, I show that responses to Zika’s proliferation invoke state security because Global Northern states imagine microcephaly as a developmental, economic, and cultural lag. Dominant scientific and medical characterizations of microcephaly constitute modern, developed states as such by making political conceptions of normalcy and capacity seem natural: microcephaly is marked as “abnormal” in the scientific literature that instructs the measurement, surveillance, and diagnosis developmental and cognitive disabilities. Seemingly disparate contemporary moments and histories–among them the 2016 Rio Olympics, histories of racial purity and contamination, phrenology, and eighteenth-century racialized notions of sexuality—are inextricably linked to ideals and practices of white, bourgeois subjectivity. Like the diagnostic category of microcephaly, these ideals and practices are inherently unstable and insecure: they cannot exist nor materialize without the economic and social exploitation of racialized and disabled populations.
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Paetzhold, Geoffrey L. "Developmental childhood experiences as antecedents to State-trait anger in an expatriate population." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2001. http://www.tren.com.
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Tepper, Karen Hoffman. "What are we teaching our kids? An analysis of school-based sexuality education content and state policy in relation to developmental needs of youth." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/280213.
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A developmental-contextual approach to understanding sexuality education course content is used in this national study. Examining policy as a factor that may influence young people's environments and hence their development is an important role for developmental research. Using data from the CDC's School Health Policies and Programs Study (SHPPS) 2000 and the Alan Guttmacher Institute's State Policies in Brief Report (Alan Guttmacher Institute, 2001), three general topic areas are addressed. First, can school level be differentiated by the sexuality education topics taught at various school levels? Second, are there significant differences in state policies that regulate school-based sexuality education targeting different school levels? Third, how do state and classroom level variables contribute to variance in the likelihood of a given topic being taught as part of school health education? The two sources of data provide a nationally representative sample of 1,201 teachers and state level data from Department of Education administrators and policies from all 50 states. These data were analyzed using stepwise discriminant analysis and Hierarchical Linear Modeling (HLM). This study resulted in three primary findings. First, both state policies and classroom content were significantly different by school level. Second, state policy was not a good predictor of the course content being taught in the classroom. Third, teachers' desires for additional training significantly predicted the sexuality education course content taught in schools. Implications for both research and practice were discussed.
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Styers, Mary Koenig. "Maintaining a Positive Outlook: Developmental Differences in the Use of Subjective Temporal Distance." NCSU, 2007. http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/theses/available/etd-10242007-181541/.
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Adults? use of subjective temporal distance, defined as a psychological distancing mechanism that allows individuals to maintain positive self-views by perceiving threatening events as being farther away in time and affirming events as being closer in time, has been the subject of extensive research attention in recent years. No research to date, however, has examined how children and adolescents utilize subjective temporal distance. This study investigated the extent to which older elementary and middle school students utilize subjective temporal distance as they remember positive and negative academic experiences. One hundred 4th/5th graders and 90 7th/8th graders provided ratings of their recollections and personal experiences concerning two academic events, receiving a satisfying and a disappointing grade or test score. The participants at both age levels reported that the positive event seemed closer in time than the disappointing event, an effect not explained by the reported actual time since the events. In contrast to expectations, no effects of grade or gender on subjective distance were observed. Further, contrary to prior investigations with adults, there was no relation between global self-worth and subjective distancing. Both the reported emotional intensity of the event and the amount of reported co-rumination with peers influenced subjective distancing. The findings are interpreted as indicating that subjective temporal distance in childhood reflects a different process than the internal, individual coping mechanism observed in adulthood. Further research should examine the role of interactions with adults and peers in children?s use of subjective distancing.
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Gallie, Muavia. "The implementation of developmental appraisal systems in a low-functioning South African school." Pretoria : [s.n.], 2006. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-06192007-115447/.
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Park, Sooyoung. "The emergence of the merit-based bureaucracy and the formation of the developmental state : the case of South Korea in a historical perspective." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2014. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-emergence-of-the-meritbased-bureaucracy-and-the-formation-of-the-developmental-state-the-case-of-south-korea-in-a-historical-perspective(e0f811df-0429-47e4-8bc1-3b9d2596972b).html.
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This research has analyzed how the institutions of the merit-based bureaucratic system in the Korean Government changed from 1948 to 1963, applying the gradual institutional change theory of Mahoney and Thelen (2010). Though copious research has been produced on Korean economic development, little analysis has been made on the emergence of the Korean developmental state. This research aimed to fill in the analytical gap by examining how effective bureaucratic institutions was established in the Korean developmental state to draw out implications for the institutional change theory as well as the discussion on the developmental sate and state capacity. This research has found that the merit-based bureaucratic institutions of the Korean Government positively changed in a piecemeal approach from 1948 to 1963, though once disturbed from 1955 to 1959. Contrary to the existing literature, this research also has found that the institutional setting for the merit-based bureaucracy was set from the very beginning of the Syngman Rhee Administration; however, the selective implementation and enforcement of the rules in the Syngman Rhee period hindered the Weberian bureaucracy. This research has, therefore, drawn out that for positive institutional change, the role of the change agents is critical especially the vertical chain of reformative leadership and capable practitioners. The low level of opposition is beneficial for not only positive but also negative change. In the end, in the case of Korea, the initially ambiguous institutions provided the actors with considerable discretion to manipulate or misuse rules. As a result of the institutional reform the rules and regulations became detailed reducing the gap between what the rules say and how the rules are implemented. The empirical tests of this research have confirmed the basic assumptions of the gradual institutional change theory of Mahoney and Thelen (2010). Firstly, the empirical results have shown that the institutional change has more to do with a piecemeal internal process than to do with any external shock or event. Secondly, the gap between the existence and the enforcement of an institution has also been proved valid. Thirdly, the empirical tests have confirmed the influence of three change factors producing different types of change in the theory. Based on the empirical findings, this research has identified important implications for the institutional change theory with three key areas for improvement. The first is the validity of the three modes of change in the theory. The test has identified the need to address the different magnitudes of the three factors affecting change. This research has also identified the need to clarify the definition of gradualness and the concept of the change agents to solidify the theory. This research has also enriched the discussion on the developmental state and state capacity by identifying the limitations of the merit-based institution in different contexts. Based on the analysis, this research has drawn out four key lessons for developing countries and for the donors: the importance of the enforcement of rules; the synchronized reform coalition between committed leadership and competent practitioners; the importance of understanding local contexts; and the relationship between dictatorship and development. By analyzing the emergence of the bureaucratic institutions, this research has not only broadened our understanding of development and state capacity but also presented a practical policy solution to overcome the persistent state of incapacity in the developing countries today.
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Coutryer, Sharon M. "Perceptions of Careproviders Concerning the Normalization/Developmental Model's Replacement of the Medical Model as the Basis for Providing Education and Training to the Institutionalized Adult with Developmental Disabilities." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1993. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278655/.
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Previous research suggests that careproviders' attitudes and perceptions significantly influence the type and quality of services received by institutionalized adults with developmental disabilities (IADD). This study explored attitudes careproviders hold concerning training needs of the IADD and their service model orientation. It traced the history of training people with developmental disabilities and provided a brief review of the medical, developmental, and normalization models of service delivery. The conceptual framework upon which this study was based proposed that staff perceptions and orientation concerning service delivery to the IADD can be conceptually related to five factors in a research model. They were identified as: (a) careprovider's characteristics; (b) working environment; (c) previous careprovider experience; (d) developmental disability history within the careprovider's family; and (e) self-reporting of a service delivery orientation. This study examined only a portion of this model (factors a, b, and e). The response sample included 370 professionals and paraprofessionals, aged 17 to 72 years, who were employed at a large residential facility serving individuals with developmental disabilities in Denton, Texas. The respondents were predominantly female (76.5%), Caucasian (72.2%) with slightly less than 75% having more than a high school diploma. The instrument, a self-administered questionnaire, consisted of three parts; Careprovider's Service Model Orientation; Careprovider's Perception of Training Needs; and, Demographic Information. Data were analyzed through the use of regression, chi square, and analysis of variance tests. Findings revealed several significant relationships between: professional status and perceptions of training needs of the IADD; professional status and service model orientation; professional status and reported service model orientation; professional status and attitude toward the medical model; and, professional status and attitude toward the developmental model. Significant relationships were not found for four additional hypotheses that were included the study.
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Yagi, Masaki. "Derivation of ground-state female ES cells maintaining gamete-derived DNA methylation." Kyoto University, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/232300.
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Hwang, Jintae [Verfasser]. "A study of the state-nature relations in a developmental state : The case of South Korea’s water resource policy, 1961-2015 / Jintae Hwang." Bonn : Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Bonn, 2015. http://d-nb.info/1077290322/34.
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Song, Wonseop. "The 1997 financial crisis and the changing role of the state in Korea - the Korean experience : the developmental state and the financial system." Thesis, University of York, 2014. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/11482/.
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The major aim of this research is to investigate the changing role of the state in South Korea (henceforth Korea) after the financial crisis of 1997. Considering the complexity of Korean dynamics in this period, the change in financial systems and the country’s developmental state will be the main points of focus. In order to analyse the main focus of thesis, the research will be simply the process of answering to the questions of, “What has been essential to both state definition and finance in Korea?” and, therefore, “How essential is the state’s definition and the role of the state in finance when examining how far Korean state has changed in the aftermath of the 1997 financial crisis?” In this thesis the core question is this: “How has the Korean developmental state changed since the 1997 financial crisis? And has this change influenced the role of the state in finance as well as the structure of the state bureaucracy?” In Korea, as a representative structure of developmental states, the financial system was a kernel of the state-leading developmental plans; in other words, it is how the state could control over ‘capital’ and execute ‘industrial policy’ for the state’s aim of economic development. Two subordinate issues therefore need to be raised to figure out the outline of the process of the changing role of the state before and after the financial crisis: “Whether state’s purpose to reinstate its crucial role by restoring the attributes of a developmental state through the public fund after the 1997 crisis was successful or not” and “what was the direction of the financial supervision system reform after the 1997 financial crisis in Korea? And was the direction matched the goal pursued by the state?” Before the 1997 crisis, Korean developmental state had already been changing in many ways; the success of economic development raised the issue of different roles of the state to previous ‘strong’, ‘economy-centred’ and ‘coercive’ role of the state. However, it is true that the financial crisis accelerated this issue as a crucial subject of the developmental state theory. As Korea has been transformed to different types of state, changing roles of the state has been inevitably required after the financial crisis. Under this situation, this thesis will conduct some empirical researches to find answers to the main question and subordinate questions.
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Looney, Kristen. "The Rural Developmental State: Modernization Campaigns and Peasant Politics in China, Taiwan and South Korea." Thesis, Harvard University, 2012. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10595.
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This dissertation analyzes the causes of rural development in East Asia, as well as the relative success or failure of rural development policies among East Asian countries, providing detailed case studies of China, Taiwan, and South Korea. These countries exhibit a range of variation on the dependent variable, rural development, which is defined as improvements in rural living standards, agricultural production and the village environment. Taiwan in the 1950s-1970s is the most successful case; South Korea in the 1950s-1970s is a less successful case; and China evolves from a failed case during the Maoist period (1949-1976) to a more successful case during the reform period (post-1978), but still one that is less successful than either Taiwan or South Korea. This study expands and challenges the developmental state literature, which, despite its contribution to explaining industrialization in East Asia, generally ignores the role of the state in rural development, fails to account for variation among East Asian countries, and excludes China from the comparative analysis. Based on two years of fieldwork and data culled from interviews, archives, and libraries, this dissertation advances a theory that specifies the varying contributions of land reform, farmers’ organizations, and modernization campaigns in rural development. This study shows that the reversal of urban-biased policies is possible in authoritarian states but does not account for variation in rural development outcomes; that variables such as decentralization and democratic checks on authority are not necessary conditions for rural development; that land reform is less important than previous studies have assumed; and that farmers’ organizations are critical to successful rural development. This study also shows that rural modernization campaigns, defined as policies that demand high levels of bureaucratic and popular mobilization to transform “traditional” ways of life in the countryside, have played a central role in East Asian rural development. This finding contradicts the developmental state model’s assumption of technical-rational policymaking, and runs counter to studies that portray state intervention in rural society as predatory or even pathologically destructive. Finally, this dissertation reveals a dynamic process of regional policy learning and modeling that has largely gone undocumented.Government
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Spirakus, Maria. "A Comparative Document Analysis on Early Childhood Teacher State Requirements, NAEYC Standards and Developmental Theories." Thesis, Northern Arizona University, 2019. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10981558.
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The gap between our current understanding of child development and public policies related to the early childhood education workforce continues to grow (Shonkoff, 2002). This gap may lead to the hiring of individuals who are not equipped with a foundation of child development theories which is fundamental to meeting the needs of children in the early childhood range (birth through age eight). The purpose of this study is to examine the recommendations regarding early childhood standards for preparation programs both from the literature and pre-service teacher preparation programs as found in certification/credentialing programs of early childhood pre-service teachers.
Early childhood education teacher preparation is key to building a successful foundation for future academic success for young learners (Mooney, 2013). Gordon & Browne (2017) noted that becoming a professional teacher takes time, knowledge, training, and experience. Teacher preparation standards “are intended to ensure that teachers have the skills necessary to help children master the prescribed content” (Feeney, 2012, p. 40). Many theorists, such as Dewey, Montessori, Erikson, Piaget and Vygotsky provide us with their findings on the importance of early childhood development (Mooney, 2013). Teachers in early childhood education should build upon these theories and apply them in their classrooms. When newly graduated teachers are in classrooms with ten or more students, they need to have the ability to connect with their students and an understanding about how their students learn and grow.
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Mammadalizade, Jamil. "The role of the higher education sector in capacitating the developmental state in South Africa." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/29731.
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This study investigates the role of the higher education sector in capacitating the developmental state in South Africa. This research is motivated by the rising need to assess the role that the South African higher education sector plays in capacitating the developmental state. The research objectives of this study are to describe the environment within which higher education attempts to address the needs of the developmental state and to explain the composition, role, and functions of partnership structures which will address the needs of a developmental state. To achieve the study’s objectives, the qualitative method of research was implemented as it attempts to propose actions to strengthen the intergovernmental relations between the Department of Higher Education and Training and higher education institutions. Pre-determined open-ended interview questions were used to interview representatives of the Department of Higher Education and Training, the University of Pretoria, as well as the University of the Free State with the purpose of discovering what is currently being done in the higher education sector to assist the South African government to achieve the state’s developmental agenda. The study provided explanation of various concepts and terms, including Public Administration, the South African developmental state and agenda, and intergovernmental relations. The study highlights the fact that in South Africa the concept of “developmental state” has a slightly different meaning to that of the internationally accepted on the basis of the “Asian Tigers”. The study contextualises the Public Administration, higher education, and intergovernmental relations. The research explains and describes the South African developmental agenda, external and internal environment of the higher education sector and its policies, as well as the main players in the higher education intergovernmental relations. The main players are the Department of Higher Education and Training, higher education institutions and statutory bodies (the Council on Higher Education and Higher Education South Africa). This research describes current developments in the higher education sector and pertaining to it intergovernmental relations, based on the views and opinions of the representatives from the DHET, UP, and the UFS, as well as policy documents and strategic plans. This study shows that currently there is a framework for intergovernmental relations in the higher education sector. However the framework is not effective and efficient for the sector to assist the South African government in meeting the developmental agenda. This research suggests restructuring current intergovernmental relations structure in the sector, as well as including more role players, such as the Department of Trade and Industry (the DTI), Department of Science and Technology, the National Research Foundation (NRF), the National Planning Commission, the Department of Monitoring and Evaluation, the Evaluation and the Economic Development Department (EDD), private and public sectors as well as the community. CopyrightDissertation (MAdmin)--University of Pretoria, 2013.
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Goff, Dennis McKevitt. "The effects of nonnutritive sucking on state regulation in preterm infants." Diss., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/52292.
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Nonnutritive Sucking (NNS) has long been used to soothe crying infants. Systematic observations of this effect in newborn infants have revealed that NNS reduces arousal in general. Among preterm infants NNS has been used as an effective intervention in the newborn intensive care unit. However, there has been little systematic research on the immediate behavioral effects of NNS in this population of infants. The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of NNS on behavioral state in preterm infants. The results indicated that the amount of quiet sleep was increased following NNS, but that this increase was not greater than the amount of quiet sleep observed in two hours of undisturbed rest. These results are discussed in terms of intervention strategies which are designed to increase the amount of quiet sleep among preterm infants. It is suggested that a pacifier can increase the amount of quiet sleep when longer periods of uninterrupted sleep cannot be arranged. Additional results indicated that the rhythmic organization of state was more complex following NNS than during control conditions. A basic 40- to 60-minute rhythm in state was not affected by NNS. However, spectral analysis indicated that there were other faster frequency fluctuations in state. Following NNS there were more of these fluctuations and they accounted for more variance in state. This pattern is more similar to the pattern observed in low-risk newborns. These results are discussed in terms of inducing behavior patterns in preterm infants which are more similar to behavior seen in full term infants. Finally, a model is presented which suggests that the reduced arousal seen following NNS is an adjunct to an increase in parasympathetic activity. This increase in parasympathetic activity is hypothesized to be adaptive. Through this mechanism sucking is hypothesized to have a distinct behavioral effect on energy regulation in newborn infants outside of the requirements for feeding.Ph. D.
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Johnson, Frank Orlando. "Behavioral outcomes and molecular marker modulation during learning and memory formation following developmental exposure to organophoshorus insecticides." Diss., Mississippi State : Mississippi State University, 2007. http://library.msstate.edu/etd/show.asp?etd=etd-03122009-143101.
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Hodge, Kristine A. "Examining the Leadership Styles of Superintendents in the Developmental Disability System in the State of Ohio." Youngstown State University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1558726760636661.
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