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1. Introduction: market, stae, and economic development 1.1 Economic development, policy reform, and the interaction between the economy and the polity 1.2 The arguments: beyond the state-versus-market debate 1.3 Research strategy PART I Policy reform, institutions, and economic perfomance 2. The Washington Consensus and its limits 3. From new political economy to new institutional economics 3.1 The new political economy 3.1.1 Features of the new political economy 3.1.2 Rational politics, irrational economics 3.1.3 Critique of the NPE: positive economics, negative politics? 3.2 The new institutional economics 3.2.1 Definition and classification of institutions 3.2.2 The assumptions, axioms, and terminology of the NIE 3.2.3 The functions of institutions 3.2.4 The instituttional design of institutions and the political steering of social processes 4. Institutional change and economic performance 4.1 The naive model: induced institutional change 4.2 The supply of institutions: collectve-action problems and the role of governments 4.3 Political eonomy, institutions, and adaptive efficiency 4.4 The need for a politico-insititutional foundation of policy reform PART II Governance: theory and practice 5. Governance and economic performance: conceptual considerations 5.1 Governance: what's in a word? 5.2 The dimensions of effective governance 5.3 Improving the quality of policy making through institution building 5.3.1 State strenght, administrative capability, and credible commitments 5.3.2 Limiting state strenght 5.3.3 Capacity building, implementation, and enforcement 5.3.4 Key economic institutions 5.3.5 The importance of informal institutions 5.3.6 The components of a market-enchancing governance secture 6. Governance in practice: evidence from less development countries and economies in trasition 6.1 Insitutions matter: the empirical evidence 6.2 The institutional foundation of development states: east Asia 6.2.1 Getting interventions right 6.2.2 Political economy of policy reform: governance in the HPAEs 6.2.3 Myth or miracle: governance and economic performance after the Asia crisis 6.3 Governance and systemic transformation 6.3.1 Large countries: China, India, and Russia 6.3.2 EU accession candidates: the Visergrád countries 7. Rethinking effective governance: politico-institutional structures and ecomomic development in comparative perspective 7.1 The evolution of effective governance 7.2 How to promote efective governance? the role of international organizations 7.3 Towards a post-Washington consensus? Appendix References Index