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Political boomslocal money and power in Taiwan, East China, Thailand, and the Philippines /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Political boomsLynn T. White.
Reminder of title:	local money and power in Taiwan, East China, Thailand, and the Philippines /
Author:	White, Lynn T.,
Published:	Singapore ;World Scientific,c2009.
Description:	1 online resource (xx, 727 p.) :maps.
Subject:	Power (Social sciences)Asia.
Subject:	AsiaCommercial policy.
Online resource:	http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/7100#t=toc
ISBN:	9789812836830 (electronic bk.)

Political boomslocal money and power in Taiwan, East China, Thailand, and the Philippines /
White, Lynn T.,III,1941-

Political boomslocal money and power in Taiwan, East China, Thailand, and the Philippines /[electronic resource] :Lynn T. White. - Singapore ;World Scientific,c2009. - 1 online resource (xx, 727 p.) :maps. - Series on contemporary China,v. 161793-0847 ;. - Series on contemporary China ;v. 29..

Includes bibliographical references (p. 600-685) and indexes.

Why have Taiwan, rich parts of China, and Thailand boomed famously, while the Philippines has long remained stagnant both economically and politically? Do booms abet democracy? Does the rise of middle "classes" promise future liberalization? Why has Philippine democracy brought no boom and barely served the Filipino people? This book, unlike most previous studies, shows that both the roots and results of growth are largely political rather than economic. Specifically, it pays attention to local, not just national, power networks that caused or prevented growth in the four places under consideration. Violence has been common in these polities, along with money. Elections have contributed to socio-political problems that are also obvious in Leninist or junta regimes, because elections are surprisingly easy to buy with corrupt money from government contracts. Liberals should pay more serious theoretical attention to the effects of money on justice, and Western political science should focus more clearly on the ways non-state local power affects elections. By considering the effects on fair justice of local money and power (largely from small- and medium-sized firms that emerge after agrarian reforms), this book asks democrats to face squarely the extent to which electoral procedures fail to help ordinary citizens. Students and scholars of Asia will all need this book - as will students of the West whose methods have become parochial.

ISBN: 9789812836830 (electronic bk.)Subjects--Topical Terms:

647805
Power (Social sciences)
--Asia.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

383150
Asia
--Commercial policy.

LC Class. No.: HN655.2.P6 / W5 2009eb

Dewey Class. No.: 320.95

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