Asian Politics in Development: Essays in Honour of Gordon White

by Benewick,Robert

• ISBN13: 9780714653334
• ISBN10: 0714653330
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-03-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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. The range of disciplines represented including political science, economics, sociology and social and economic anthropology and a regional focus on China, India and East Asia gives rise to an unusually creative and synergistic set of ideas for thinking about the various meanings of politics in development. This collection provides a valuable resource for academics, policy-orientated researchers, and advanced undergraduate students trying to understand and address policy problems in a theoretically informed and empirically grounded way.

Table of Contents

GORDON WHITE'S INTELLECTUAL LEGACY
Introduction	3	(4)
Robert Benewick
Marc Blecher
Sarah Cook
Social Politics, the State, Policy, Comparison: Gordon White's Contribution to China Studies	7	(13)
Marc Blecher
Gordon White and Development Studies: An Appreciation	20	(13)
Mark Robinson
POLITICS AND THE STATE
Reform and the Role of the State in China	33	(17)
Tony Saich
Managing Central--Local Relations During Socialist Marketisation: A Changing Role for the Chinese Communist Party	50	(15)
Akio Takahara
Treasuring the Word: Mao, Depoliticisation and the Material Present	65	(18)
Robert Benewick
Stephanie Hemelryk Donald
State Enterprise Reform and Gender: One Step Backwards for Women?	83	(26)
Jude Howell
CIVIL SOCIETY
Corporatist Capitalism: The Politics of Accumulation in South India	109	(14)
Elisabetta Basile
Barbara Harriss-White
Bias and Capture: Corruption, Poverty and the Limitations of Civil Society in India	123	(27)
Rob Jenkins
Anne Marie Goetz
Between Cant and Corporatism: Creating an Enabling Political Environment for the Poor	150	(23)
Mick Moore
Anuradha Joshi
WELFARE
State Entrepreneurship and Community Welfare Services in Urban China	173	(22)
Gordon White
Xiaoyuan Shang
Creating Wealth and Welfare: Entrepreneurship and the Developmental State in Rural China	195	(19)
Sarah Cook
Can Welfare Systems be Evaluated Outside Their Cultural and Historical Context? A Case Study of Children's Homes in Contemporary Japan	214	(16)
Roger Goodman
The East Asian Welfare States in Transition: Challenges and Opportunities	230	(25)
Huck-ju Kwon
GLOBALISATION
Is Globalisation All It is Cracked Up to Be?	255	(18)
Raphael Kaplinsky
Globalisation, Privatisation and China's Industrial Labour Systems	273	(17)
Paul Bowles
Xiao-Yuan Dong
Bibliography of Gordon White's Works	290	(9)
Notes on Contributors	299	(4)
Index	303