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Asian Politics in Development: Essays in Honour of Gordon White

Editat de Robert Benewick, Marc Blecher, Sarah Cook
en Limba Engleză Paperback – mar 2003
This volume adopts a multidisciplinary and comparative approach to development that brings together issues that are characteristic of the lifelong scholarship of Professor Gordon White. These include a focus on the state, civil society, welfare and globalization.
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ISBN-13: 9780714683249
ISBN-10: 0714683248
Pagini: 315
Dimensiuni: 165 x 226 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.49 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Frank Cass Publishers

Cuprins

Gordon White's intellectual legacy - introduction; social politics, the state, policy, comparison - Gordon White's contribution to China studies. Politics and the state: Gordon White and development studies - an appreciation; reform and the role of the state in China; managing central local relations during socialist marketization - a changing role for the Communist Party; treasuring the word - Mao, de-politicization and the material present; state enterprise reform and gender - one step backwards for women?. Civil society: corporatist capitalism - the politics of accumulation in south india; bias and capture - corruption, poverty and the limitations of civil society in India; between cant and corporatism - creating an enabling political environment for the poor. Welfare: state entrepreneurship and community welfare services in urban China; creating wealth and welfare - entrepreneurship and the developmental state in rural China; can welfare systems be evaluated outside their cultural and historical context? A case study of children's homes in contemporary Japan; the East Asian welfare states in transition - challenges and opportunities. Globalisation: is globalisation all it is cracked up to be?; globalisation, privatisation and China's industrial labour systems.