Professor Linda Weiss

BA(Hons) Griff. PhD Lond. FASSA

BACKGROUND

Linda Weiss is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, Professor Emeritus in Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney, and Honorary Professor of Political Science at Aarhus University. She has lectured widely in North America, Europe, and East Asia and has held visiting research appointments at UCLA, Cornell, the LSE, the European University Institute, University of Rome (La Sapienza), Stockholm School of Economics, Academia Sinica, Seoul National University, the Kyungnam Institute for Far Eastern Studies (Seoul), and the Academia Sinica. She currently serves on the editorial boards of several international journals.

Her specialism is the comparative and international politics of economic development, with a focus on state capacity and public-private sector relations. Several of her publications on the topics of globalisation and state power, developmental states, and trade politics have been translated into Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, French, Korean, Romanian, Turkish and Chinese. Her forthcoming book, 'Hybrid State, Hybrid Capitalism', shifts the focus of earlier work from Europe and East Asia to the United States. This project on the political economy of national security focuses on the links between security, technology, and political culture. The study has been six years in the making and is her largest to date.

RESEARCH

Research Interests

• Comparative Capitalism
• International Political Economy
• State Capacity and Globalisation
• Developmental States
• U.S. Science and Technology Policy

PUBLICATIONS

Books Authored and Edited

Weiss L (forthcoming), Hybrid State, Hybrid Capitalism: national security roots of US enterprise and innovation, Under review.

Chang, K-S, Fine B & Weiss L 2012, Developmental Politics in Transition: The Neoliberal Era and Beyond, Macmillan-Palgrave, Basingstroke.

Weiss L, Thurbon E & Mathews J 2007, National Insecurity, Alllen & Unwin, Sydney.

Weiss L 2007 The Myth of the Powerless State, New Chinese Edition, UP Publications Ltd, Hong Kong.

Weiss L, Thurbon E & Mathews J 2004, How to Kill a Country - Australia's damaging trade deal with the United States, Allen & Unwin, Sydney.

Weiss L 2003, States in the Global Economy: Bringing Domestic Institutions Back In, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and New York..

Weiss L 1998, The Myth of the Powerless State, Cornell University Press, New York. [Korean edition 2002; Romanian edition 2002; new Chinese edition 2007]

Weiss L & Hobson J 1995, States and Economic Development: A Comparative Historical Analysis, Polity Press, Cambridge. [Turkish edition 1999; Chinese edition 2008]

Weiss L 1988, Creating Capitalism, Blackwell, Oxford and New York.

Refereed Journal Articles

Weiss L 2006, "Michael Mann, State Power, and the Two Logics of Globalisation", Millenium: Journal of International Studies, vol. 34, no. 2, pp. 529-541.

Weiss L 2006, "The Business of Buying American: Government Procurement as Trade Strategy in the United States", Review of International Political Economy, vol. 13, no. 5, pp. 701-724.

Weiss L & Thurbon E 2006, "Investing in Openness: The Evolution of FDI strategy in South Korea and Taiwan", New Political Economy, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 1-24.

Weiss L, Thurbon E & Mathews J 2006, "Free Trade in Mad Cows: How to kill a beef industry", Australian Journal of International Affairs, vol. 60, no. 3, pp. 376-399.

Weiss L 2005, "Global Governance, National Strategies: How industrialised states make room to move under the WTO", Review of International Political Economy, vol. 12, no. 5, pp. 723-749.

Weiss L 2005, "L'integrazione globale accresce il potere degli Stati", Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica (Italian Journal of Political Science), vol. 3, pp. 397-416.

Weiss L 2005, "The State Augmenting Effects of Globalisation", New Political Economy, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 345-343.

Weiss L & Thurbon E 2004, "Where There's a Will, There's a Way: Governing the Market in times of Uncertainty", Issues and Studies, vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 61-72.

Weiss L 2004, "Gobernanza Global Estrategias Nacionales: Como les Estados Hacen Espacio Para Desenvolverse Bajo La OMC", Documentos y Aportes en Administration Publica y Gestion Estatal, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 7-40.

Weiss L 2001, "Globalization and State Power", Occasional Paper, vol. 21, pp. 5-19.

Weiss L 2001, "Guiding globalization: The renewal of developmental purpose in Korea and Taiwan", Occasional Paper, vol. 21, pp. 89-106.

Weiss L 2000, "Developmental states in transition: Adapting, dismantling, innovating, not 'normalising'", The Pacific Review, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 21-55.

Weiss L 2000, "Globalization and State Power", Development and Society, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 1-15.

Weiss L 2000, "Guiding Globalization: The renewal of developmental purpose in Korea and Taiwan (Taiwan et la Coree, ou la mondialisation encadree)", Critique Internationale, vol. 8, pp. 149-161.

Weiss L 1999, "Managed openness: Beyond neoliberal globalism", New Left Review, vol. 238, pp. 126-140.
Weiss L 1999, "State power and the Asian crisis", New Political Economy, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 317-342.

Weiss L 1999, "Globalization and National Governance: Antinomy or Interdependence?", Review of International Studies, Special Issue, vol. 25, no. 5, pp. 59-88.

Weiss L 1998, "Globalizzazione", Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia, vol. 39, no. 2, pp. 273-286.

Weiss L 1997, "Globalization and the Myth of the Powerless State", New Left Review, vol. 225, pp. 3-27.

Weiss L 1995, "Governed Interdependence: Rethinking the Government-Business Relationship in East Asia", The Pacific Review, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 25-50.

Weiss L 1995, "Government-Business Relations in East Asia: the Changing Basis of State Capacity", Asian Perspective, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 85-118.

Weiss L & Mathews J 1994, "Innovation alliances in Taiwan: A coordinated approach to developing and diffusing technology", Journal of Industry Studies, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 91-101.

Weiss L 1993, "War, the state, and the origins of the Japanese employment system", Politics and Society, vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 325-354.

Weiss L & Wilkinson B 1990, "Organisations, technology and culture", Labour and Industry, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 151-160.

Weiss L 1990, "Regional Economic Policy in Italy", Political Quarterly, vol. 60, no. 2, pp. 109-124.

Weiss L 1987, "Explaining the underground economy: State and social structure", British Journal of Sociology, vol. 38, no. 2, pp. 216-234.

Weiss L 1986, "Demythologising the petite bourgeoisie: The Italian case", West European Politics, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 362-375.

Weiss L 1984, "Italian state and small business", Archives Europeennes de Sociologie, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 214-241.

Book Chapters

Weiss, L (2013 forthcoming), "U.S. Technology Procurement in the National Security Innovation System", in T Kalvet, R Kattel & V Lember (eds), Public procurement for innovation policy: International perspectives, Springer Press, Germany.

Weiss, L 2012, "The Myth of the Neoliberal State", in K-S Chang, B Fine, & L Weiss (eds), Developmental Politics in Transition: The Neoliberal Era and Beyond, Macmillan-Palgrave, London.

Chang, K-S, Weiss L, and Fine B 2012, "Introduction: Neoliberalism and Developmental Politics in Perspective", in K-S Chang, B Fine, & L Weiss (eds), Developmental Politics in Transition: The Neoliberal Era and Beyond, Macmillan-Palgrave, London.

Weiss L 2010, "The State in the Economy: Neoliberal or Neoactivist?", in J Campbell, C Crouch, P Hull Kristensen, O Pedersen, & R Whitley (eds), Oxford Handbook of Comparative Institutional Analysis, Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Weiss L 2007, "Globalisation", in B Galligan & W Roberts (eds), Oxford Companion to Australian Politics, Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Weiss L 2006, "Infrastructural Power, Economic Transformation, and Globalisation", in J Hall & R Schroeder (eds), An Anatomy of Power: the social theory of Michael Mann, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Weiss L 2004, "Developmental States Before and After the Asian Crisis", in J Perraton & B Clift (eds), Where are National Capitalisms Now?, Palgrave Macmillan, London.

Weiss L 2003, "Bringing Domestic Institutions Back In", in L Weiss (ed), States in the Global Economy, Cambridge University Press, New York and Cambridge.

Weiss L 2003, "Guiding Globalization In East Asia: New Roles for Old Developmental States", in L Weiss (ed), States in the Global Economy, Cambridge University Press, New York and Cambridge.

Weiss L 2003, "Is the state being 'transformed' by globalisation?", in L Weiss (ed), States in the Global Economy, Cambridge University Press, New York and Cambridge.

Weiss L 2001, "Can Developmental States Survive Globalization?", in J Perraton & A Payne (eds), National Capitalisms in an Era of Globalisation, Routledge, London.

Weiss L & Hobson J 2000, "State power and economic strength revisited: What's so special about the Asian crisis?", in R Robison, M Beeson, K Jayasuriya & H. Kim (eds), Politics and markets in the wake of the Asian crisis, Routledge, London and New York.

Weiss L 2000, "Globalization and the Myth of the Powerless State", in R Higgott (ed), The Political Economy of Globalization, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham.

Weiss L 1999, "Globalization and National Governance: Antinomy or Interdependence?", in M Cox, K Booth & T Dunne (eds), The Interregnum: Controversies in World Politics 1989-1999, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Weiss L 1996, "Sources of the East Asian Advantage: An Institutional Approach", in R Robison (ed), Pathways to Asia: Unravelling the Myths and Reassessing the Framework, Allen and Unwin, Sydney.

Weiss L 1993, "Explaining the Underground Economy", in L Ferman, L Berndt & S Henry (eds), Work Beyond Employment in Advanced Capitalist Countries: Classic and Contemporary Perspectives on the Informal Economy, Edwin Mellen Press, New York.

Weiss L & Mathews J 1992, "Policy Options for the Restructuring of the Australian Textile Industry", in J Wanna & S Bell (eds), Business-Government Relations in Australia, Harcourt Brace and Jovanovich.

Weiss L 1992, "Politics of industrial organisation: A comparative view", in J Marceau (ed), Reworking the world: Organisations, technologies and cultures, de Gruyter, Berlin and New York pp. 100-134.

Weiss L 1990, "Regional Economic Policy in Italy", in C Crouch & D Marquand (eds), The New Centralism: Britain Out of Step in Europe?, Blackwell, Oxford.

Keynote Papers and Selected Guest Speaker Presentations

Weiss L 2011, "The Return of the State: Learning From the BRIC’s?", invited speaker at the Ford Foundation Conference on "New Economic Thinking, Teaching and Policy Perspectives: A Brazilian Perspective within a Global Dialogue", funded and co-sponsored by the Brazilian National Development Bank, the Ford Foundation-New York, and MINDS (Multidisciplinary Institute for Development and Strategies), Rio de Janeiro, November, 7-9.

Weiss L 2011. "Developmental Militarism and the National Security State", guest speaker in the International Relations Seminar Series, Koç University, Istanbul, 31 March.

Weiss L 2010, "Transformative Capacity and Development States: Lessons for South Africa", public lecture and paper presented to the Policy Analysis
Unit, Centre for Africa's Social Progress, Human Sciences Research Council, Pretoria, South Africa, 18 February 2010.

Weiss L 2009, "State Activism in a Global Era", keynote paper presented at the Joint Conference of the Ford Foundation and MINDS, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, 1 September.

Weiss L 2008, "Crossing the Divide: From the Military-Industrial to the Development-Procurement Complex", invited speaker at the Ford Foundation-Berkeley Workshop on "Tracking the Hidden Developmental State", University of California, Berkeley, June, 2008.

Weiss L 2008, "Back in Business: The 21st Century State", inaugural lecture, Aarhus University, November, 2008.

Weiss L 2007, "The Role of the State in a Global Era", guest speaker at "The Ford Foundation Worldwide Workshop", Global Governance Program, learning initiative for the Foundation’s Program officers developing grant-making strategies, Sao Paolo, November, 2007.

Weiss L 2005, "The UN Millenium Development Goals", guest speaker at "The UN Millenium Development Goals' Seminar Series, University of Copenhagen, Aarhus University, and the Danish Institute for International Studies, December, 2005.

Weiss L 2004, "The State Augmenting Effects of Globalisation", invited plenary speaker at the "State of the World" Inaugural Conference of the Princeton Institute for International & Regional Studies, Princeton University.

Weiss L 2003, "Global Governance, National Strategies: How states make room to move under the WTO", keynote paper presented at the "International Conference on Politics and Policy in a Globalising World", University of Bristol.

Weiss L 2002, "Infrastructural Power, Economic Transformation and Globalisation", invited paper presented at "UCLA Workshop on 'The Anatomy of Power: The Social Theory of Michael Mann'", University of California, Los Angeles, USA.

Weiss L 2001, "Does State Size Matter When Institutions Count?", invited plenary paper presented at the Conference on "Small States in World Markets: Fifteen Years Later", in honour of Peter Katzenstein, Gothenberg University, Sweden.

Weiss L 2001, "Globalisation challenges, state responses", keynote paper presented at the "Conference on Global Turbulence: Instability in National and International Political Economy", Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada.

Weiss L 2001, "When globalisation enables, but institutions constrain", invited speaker at the Joint Academies Symposium, ANU, Canberra, November, 2001.

Weiss L 2000, "The Politics of the Global Economy", public lecture, Endowed Sears Lecture Series, Purdue University, 22 February, 2000.

Weiss L 1999, "State Power and the Asian Crisis", guest speaker at Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Program on US-Japan Relations, Harvard University, 4 March 1999.

Weiss L 1999, "State Power and the Asian Crisis", guest speaker at Woodrow Wilson School, Seminar Series in Development Studies, Princeton University, 22 February, 1999.

Weiss L 1999, "State Power and the Asian Crisis", guest speaker at Seminar Series in International Political Economy, Department of International & Public Affairs, University of Columbia, New York, 23 February, 1999.

Weiss L 1999, 17th Henry R. Luce Lecture, Program on Globalization and Cultural Identity, Clark University, Massachusetts, 1 March, 1999.

Weiss L 1999, "Globalisation and the Nation-State", guest speaker at Joint seminar sponsored by the Center for Social Theory and Comparative History, Department of Sociology, and School of Asian Studies, UCLA, 17 February, 1999.

Weiss L 1998, "The Developmental State in Transition: Adapting, Innovating, Recomposing, not 'Normalising'", keynote paper at International Symposium on "Beyond Liberalisation: Making Economic Policy in Europe and the Asia Pacific", European University Institute, Italy, October, 1998.

Selected Conference Papers

Weiss L 2010, "US Developmental Hybrids: Sidestepping the Anti-Statist Constraint" (revised version), paper presented at the Australian Academy of Social Sciences International Workshop on "The Public-Private Hybridisation of the 21st Century State", Sydney University, July, 2010.

Weiss L 2009, "The State in the Economy: Neoliberal or Neoactivist?", invited paper presented at the International Conference on "Developmental Politics in the Neoliberal Era and Beyond: Comparative Cases and Critical Issues", Seoul National University, 22-24 October, 2009.

Weiss L 2009, "US Developmental Hybrids: Sidestepping the Anti-Statist Constraint" (revised version), paper presented at the CERI Workshop, Sciences Po, Paris, 18-19 December, 2009.

Weiss L 2009, "U.S. Developmental Hybrids: Sidestepping the Anti-Statist Constraint", invited paper presented at the ISA-funded Workshop and Panel on "The Hybridization of the 21st Century State", Annual Conference of the International Studies Association, New York, 14-17 February, 2009.

Weiss L 2007, "Governing the Market in America", invited presentation at the Ford Foundation funded "Politics & Society Mini-Conference" on "Tracking the U.S. Hidden Developmental State", CUNY, New York, August, 2007.

Weiss L 2006, "Governing the Market: Will the real US model please stand up?", paper presented at International Studies Association, Annual Convention, San Diego.

Weiss L 2006, "The Beijing Forum: The Harmony of Civilizations and Prosperity for All", (presentation "Neoliberal or neo-developmental? The US Approach to Economic Governance"), Peking University.

Thurbon E & Weiss L 2003, "The evolution of investment policy capacity in South Korea and Taiwan", Roundtable on Policy Capacity in an Era of Globalisation City University of Hong Kong.

Weiss L 2000, "Roundtable on Developmental States", invited presentation at the International Studies Association Conference, Los Angeles, USA.

Weiss L 1991, "War, the State, and the Origins of the Japanese Employment System", invited paper presented at the final of four ESRC-funded Conferences in the series, Structural Change in the West, on the theme "The Impact of the International Order on the Nation State", Emmanuel College, Cambridge, England, September.

Working Papers

Weiss L 2008, "Crossing the Divide: From the Military-Industrial to the Development- Procurement Complex", Working Paper 1, Institute for Governmental Affairs, UC-Davis, November.

Weiss L 2001, "Guiding globalization: the view from East Asia", Occasional Paper, International Development Studies, Roskilde University, Denmark, Report Number 22, Occasional Paper No. 22, International Development Studies.

Weiss L 1999, "State Power and the Asian Crisis", Working Paper No. 99/6, McMaster University.

Weiss L 1996, "Governed Interdependence: the government-business relationship in East Asia reconsidered", Occasional Paper No. 12, Roskilde University, Denmark.

Weiss L 1995, "Government-business relations in East Asia : the changing basis of state capacity", Occasional Paper, Chung-Hua Institution for Economic Research.

Weiss L & Mathews J 1991, "A Tale of Two Industries: Textiles in Italy and Australia", Working Paper No. 86, Research Centre for Industrial Relations and Organisational and Behaviour, UNSW.

Reports

Mathews J & Weiss L 1996, "Programs for Export and Industry Promotion in Australia", Report to Nomura Research Institute, for Research Institute of Asia and the Pacific, University of Sydney.

Weiss L 2003, "Public Procurement in multilateral agreements and foreign jurisdictions", Report commissioned by the Department of Public Works, Queensland Government, Australia. October.

Weiss L 1998, "Institutional Capacity and industrial self-organisation: Taiwan", Building Institutional Capacity in Asia Final Report (1997-1998) prepared by J Mathews for the Ministry of Finance, Japan, for Research Institute of Asia and the Pacific, University of Sydney.

COMMENTARY

Opinion Pieces

Weiss L, Thurbon E & Mathews J 2004, "Bitter Pill for and Appendage State", The Australian Financial Review, 20 August, 2004.

Weiss L, Thurbon E & Mathews J 2004, "The big sell-out on 'Buy Australian'", The Canberra Times, 23 November, 2004

Mathews J, Weiss L, & Thurbon E 2004, "The FTA: Pandering to Rome", The Australian Financial Review, 4 June, 2004.