Regulation in Asia: Pushing Back on Globalization

by Gillespie; John

• ISBN13: 9780415489867
• ISBN10: 0415489865
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-08-04
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Unlike much analysis about regulation in Asia which focuses on globalisation and the transplant effect, leaving domestic influence over commercial regulation under-researched and under-theorized, this book focuses on how local actors influence regulatory change. It explores the complex economic and regulatory factors that generate social demand for state regulation and shows how local networks, courts, democratic processes and civil society have a huge influence on regulatory systems. It examines the particular circumstances in a wide range of Asian countries, provides transnational comparisons and comparisons with Western countries, and assesses how far local regulatory regimes increase economic value and convey competitive advantages.

Table of Contents

1 Pushing back on globalization: An introduction: John Gillespie and Randall Peerenboom. 2 The role of state, non-state and hybrid actors in localizing global scripts in East Asia: John Gillespie. 3 Pushing against globalization: Toward an analytic template: Michael Dowdle. 4 Traditional knowledge in Asia: Global agendas and local subjects: Christoph Antons. 5 Giving content and effect to competition rules: Contrasting Australia and Japan: Brendan Sweeney. 6 Resistance, revision, and retrenchment in the transition to a competitive market economy in China: Randall Peerenboom. 7 Regulatory learning and its discontents in China: Promise and tragedy at the State Food and Drug Administration: Dali L. Yang. 8 Unacknowledged legislators: Business participation in lawmaking in Vietnam: John Gillespie and Bui Bich Thi Lien. 9 Pushing against globalization: The response from civil society groups in Thailand: Jakkrit Kuanpoth. 10 Globalization and Japanese regulation: A commercial dispute case study: Veronica L. Taylor. 11 Rehabilitating Korea's corporate insolvency regime, 1992-2007: Soogeun Oh and Terence C. Halliday. 12 The people's prosperity? Indonesian constitutional interpretation, economic reform and globalization: Simon Butt and Tim Lindsey. 13 Law reform and corporate governance in Malaysia: Aishah Bidin.