ABSTRACT
How do state economic institutions come about? And why do countries give differential accounts of state institution-development? Developmental state theorists have supplied thorough accounts of how state institutions have been closely related to the impressive development outcomes achieved in several East Asian countries (Johnson 1982; Wade 1990; Amsden 1992a, 1997; Evans 1995). However, little if any explanation has been given to the origins of these state institutions and to the socio-political and politico-economic contexts within which these institutional capacities emerged.
