ABSTRACT
This chapter follows the structure of Evans's (1979) study of Brazil, examining the interaction through time among the key members of Taiwan's economic elite-private capital, multinational corporations, and the state. I argue that on Taiwan the state played a much greater role than in the commonly analyzed Latin American cases. For this and other reasons, Taiwan avoided much of the social, economic, and political disarticulation and exclusion prevalent in Latin America and has begun a transition away from hard authoritarianism toward a more pluralist democratic system. By presenting data on Taiwan, in this chapter I hope to facilitate comparison with other, non-Asian cases of dependent development and in this way contribute to the construction of a badly needed new paradigm for development studies.
