Robert Benewick / Marc Blecher / Sarah Cook (eds.)

Asian Politics in Development

Essays in Honour of Gordon White
Herausgeber: Benewick, Robert; Cook, Sarah; Blecher, Marc

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 494g
• ISBN-13: 9780714683249
• ISBN-10: 0714683248
• Artikelnr.: 21937938

Autorenporträt

Benewick, Robert; Blecher, Marc; Cook, Sarah

Inhaltsangabe

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.