Format:
1 online resource (viii, 315 pages)
ISBN:
9780203490525
,
9781135773755
,
9781135773793
,
9781135773809
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.
Content:
chapter Introduction -- chapter Social Politics, the State, Policy, Comparison: Gordon White's Contribution to China Studies -- chapter Gordon White and Development Studies: An Appreciation -- chapter Reform and the Role of the State in China -- chapter Managing Central-Local Relations During Socialist Marketisation: A Changing Role for the Chinese Communist Party -- chapter Treasuring the Word: Mao, Depoliticisation and the Material Present -- chapter State Enterprise Reform and Gender: One Step Backwards for Women? -- chapter Corporatist Capitalism: The Politics of Accumulation in South India -- chapter Bias and Capture: Corruption, Poverty and the Limitations of Civil Society in India -- chapter Between Cant and Corporatism: Creating an Enabling Political Environment for the Poor -- chapter State Entrepreneurship and Community Welfare Services in Urban China -- chapter Creating Wealth and Welfare: Entrepreneurship and the Developmental State in Rural China -- chapter Can Welfare Systems be Evaluated Outside Their Cultural and Historical Context? A Case Study of Children's Homes in Contemporary Japan -- chapter The East Asian Welfare States in Transition: Challenges and Opportunities -- chapter Is Globalisation All It is Cracked Up to Be? -- chapter Globalisation, Privatisation and China's Industrial Labour Systems -- chapter Bibliography of Gordon White's Works -- chapter Notes on Contributors.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [290]-298) and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780714653334
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780714683249
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780714653334
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
DOI:
10.4324/9780203490525
