本文從比較政治學所關切重要議題－國家在經濟發展中扮演不同干預角色出發，在文章前半部回顧並檢討「發展型國家」和「企業家型國家」兩個概念，一方面釐清其定義，另一方面嘗試將這兩個概念應用在中國這個近年來經濟成長最快速的發展中國家。本文嘗試由中國的經驗出發，根據重新建構新的理論架構，以便於解釋中國地方政府在經濟發展中的不同角色。因此，理論架構乃奠基於修正國家經濟發展角色相關研究成果，而使其能應用在解釋中國各地區經濟發展的不同「典範」。此一理論架構以「地方政府投資的資本管道」以及「地方政府投資標的」為兩個自變項，此兩個自變項進而交互作用出地方政府干預經濟四種「理念型」角色的新分類法，其中兩種角色的混合類型－「市場化國家資本主義」是前人研究所忽略部分。在實證性研究部分，以上述概念架構從事個案研究，歸類東莞和蘇州兩個地級城市自1979 年以降經濟發展中地方政府的角色，並分析指出其角色間的演化路徑。本文研究發現兩個地級市政府都表現出程度不等的「市場化國家資本主義」特徵，此一發展模式代價也已浮現，值得關注。研究貢獻部分在於希望將中國研究與比較政治學其他區域相關研究成果（東亞和拉美）進行理論對話，並從中國自身經驗重新架構一組新的分析理論，以使對中國的實證分析可以豐富比較政治學的理論內涵。

Starting from the main concern of comparative politics, there are two
types of intervening economy: Developmental State and Entrepreneurial
State, this paper tries to clarify their definitions, and intends to analyze how these two concepts are applied to China. Based on China’s experiences in recent years, this article reconstructs a new theoretical framework to analyze roles of local state in economic development.The most important academic contribution of this paper is the creation of the term “government funded capital channels” and “market funded capital
channels” as new independent variables. Thus, this paper’s theoretical
structure combines a new independent variable with an existing riable “the
ways for state intervening economy” to establish a new typology: four types of state roles in economic development. The mixed type in our typology,“Market Oriented State Capitalism”, was ignored by scholars.
By employing the aforementioned, this paper analyzes two Chinese
prefectural cities, Dongguan and Suzhou, whose roles of economic
development path since 1979, and finds out that “Market Oriented State Capitalism” is the main economic development pattern in China coast region. In short, this paper attempts to bridge the relation between China
studies and Comparative Politics, and establishes new theoretical structure from China’s development experiences in order to enrich the theories of Comparative Politics.