Marketization and Democracy - East Asian Experiences

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. Theories of economic development and policy; 3. The model; 4. Quantitative analysis of democracy; 5. Korea: a balancing of power; 6. Taiwan: the bringing in of new elites; 7. Indonesia: unrealized potential; 8. China: a transformation of the societal contract; 9. Conclusions and policy implications.

Summary

As the East Asian financial crisis continues to leave a path of destruction economically and politically in its wake, people all over the world seek to know what went wrong. This work, first published in 2000, analyzes the experiences of China, Taiwan, Indonesia, and Korea in moving toward both marketization and democracy.

Product details

• Authors: Samantha F. Ravich, Samantha Fay Ravich
• Assisted by: Jr. Wolf (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.04.2012
• EAN: 9780521661652
• ISBN: 978-0-521-66165-2
• No. of pages: 294
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 631 g
• Series: Rand Studies in Policy Analysi
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education