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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Theory and Frames
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Technological Upgrading in Brazil: Achievements and Challenges
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Comparative Perspectives
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About this book
Today’s middle-income countries tend to be locked in a middle-income trap, unable to transition to higher income levels due to rising costs and declining competitiveness. While there is a broad consensus that upgrading these economies towards innovation-led growth is imperative, countless institutional and political economy obstacles remain. This book brings together analytical perspectives from comparative political economy, innovation studies, and development economics for the study of technological upgrading. Its distinctive contribution is the development of an innovative theoretical framework, named upgrading regimes, combining and extending the comparative capitalism and innovation system perspectives. It explores the usefulness of this approach by providing an indepth assessment of the political economy of upgrading in Brazil under the Workers’ Party governments. As the politics of technological upgrading will be one of the crucial research areas in the years to come, this book promises to become a key reference point in this debate.
Reviews
Innovation in Brazil has been a topic of extensive research, but rarely before Michael Schedelik’s book has it been done as comprehensively with such a wealth of empirical evidence. It is a deep dive into Brazilian political economy, but deftly connected to major theoretical debates on growth models, varieties of capitalism, innovation systems, and more. (--Ben Ross Schneider, Ford International Professor of Political Science and Director of the MIT-Brazil Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Innovation studies and comparative political economy meet in a very productive way in this important book. Schedelik succeeds in explaining the discrepancy between high R&D spending and mediocre innovation performance under the Workers' Party governments in Brazil. It is a very lucid and compelling read. (--Tobias ten Brink, Professor of Chinese Economy and Society, Constructor University, Bremen)
This important book makes a path breaking contribution to the study of comparative political economy of development in emerging economies by advancing the promising concept of upgrading regimes. The author skilfully deals with the trap of innovation policy promises in the middle income trap and technological upgrading literatures by bringing politics and institutions squarely in these debates. By using this innovative framework to explain the political economy of upgrading in Brazil under the Workers’ Party governments, he produces novel results which will certainly shape future analytical developments. In particular, this holds true for the illuminating and tightly argued discussion of mutually reinforcing negative institutional complementarities. This notion suggests that beyond being mere obstacles to upgrading, they can be seen as markers for a pragmatic reflection on the misleading linear view of innovation in upgrading discourses and practices in emerging countries. It is a provocative must read for those who strive to avoid simplistic structural and facile political explanations of upgrading development. (--Antonio José Junqueira Botelho, Professor of Comparative Political Economy, IUPERJ Universidade Candido Mendes, Rio de Janeiro)This highly recommended book provides an innovative perspective on technological upgrading and industrial policy in developing and emerging countries. Drawing on key debates and analytical concepts in political economy, economic sociology, and development economics, it offers an original and timely analysis of the political economy of upgrading in Brazil. It stands to become an essential read for anyone researching the middle-income trap problematique, industrial policy, and innovation in emerging countries. This book will be of interest to researchers and policy makers alike. (--Judit Ricz, Associate Professor of Political Economy, Corvinus University Budapest)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Michael Schedelik is Lecturer and Research Associate at the Institute of Political Science at Goethe University Frankfurt where he teaches Comparative and International Political Economy. His research focuses on the politics of growth and innovation in developing and emerging economies.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Political Economy of Upgrading Regimes: Brazil and beyond
Authors: Michael Schedelik
Series Title: International Political Economy Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34002-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-34001-7Published: 21 June 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-34004-8Due: 22 July 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-34002-4Published: 20 June 2023
Series ISSN: 2662-2483
Series E-ISSN: 2662-2491
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 286
Number of Illustrations: 47 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: International Relations, International Relations Theory