1st Edition

Asian Politics in Development Essays in Honour of Gordon White

Edited By Robert Benewick, Marc Blecher, Sarah Cook Copyright 2003
    324 Pages
    by Routledge

    264 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.

    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.

    Biography

    Benewick, Robert; Blecher, Marc; Cook, Sarah