UID:
almafu_9959148206602883
Format:
1 online resource (326 p.)
ISBN:
1-135-77379-3
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0-203-60760-0
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1-135-77380-7
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1-280-05156-6
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0-203-49052-5
Content:
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.
Note:
Papers presented at the Gordon White Memorial Conference held at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Apr. 30 and May 1, 1999.
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; Introduction; Social Politics, the State, Policy, Comparison: Gordon White's Contribution to China Studies; Gordon White and Development Studies: An Appreciation; Reform and the Role of the State in China; Managing Central-Local Relations During Socialist Marketisation: A Changing Role for the Chinese Communist Party; Treasuring the Word: Mao, Depoliticisation and the Material Present; State Enterprise Reform and Gender: One Step Backwards for Women?; Corporatist Capitalism: The Politics of Accumulation in South India
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Bias and Capture: Corruption, Poverty and the Limitations of Civil Society in IndiaBetween Cant and Corporatism: Creating an Enabling Political Environment for the Poor; 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; Is Globalisation All It is Cracked Up to Be?
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Globalisation, Privatisation and China's Industrial Labour SystemsBibliography of Gordon White's Works; Notes on Contributors; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-7146-8324-8
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-7146-5333-0
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9780203490525
