Asian Politics in Development
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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Taylor & Francis
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
