Asian Politics in Development

Essays in Honour of Gordon White
1. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-0-7146-8324-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 324 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 494 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Benewick, Robert

Blecher, Marc

Cook, Sarah

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Entwicklungsstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Entwicklungspolitik, Nord-Süd Beziehungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Liberalismus, Libertarismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

Benewick, Robert; Blecher, Marc; Cook, Sarah