Rush Tarquin
Gone Fishin'
Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is for a Western country to explicitly adopt East Asian Neomercantilism and the Developmental State, as demonstrated in Japan or the Asian Tigers, either as the policy of a governing political party or a bipartisan consensus. For the purposes of this challenge, Western preferably means at least starting as Western in a cultural, linguistic, ethnic, economic (ie. developed), and political (ie. liberal democratic) sense. The last two are flexible depending on when your POD is, ie. I'm not gonna insist on democratic if it's a European country in the 30s.
If your POD precludes Japan or the Asian Tigers' development, the economic doctrine should just resemble OTL East Asian Neomercantilism and the Developmental State as much as possible.
If your POD precludes Japan or the Asian Tigers' development, the economic doctrine should just resemble OTL East Asian Neomercantilism and the Developmental State as much as possible.