Political Booms: Local Money And Power In Taiwan, East China, Thailand, And The Philippines

Political Booms: Local Money And Power In Taiwan, East China, Thailand, And The Philippines
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Publisher : World Scientific
Total Pages : 748
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ISBN-10 : 9789814469319
ISBN-13 : 9814469319
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Book Synopsis Political Booms: Local Money And Power In Taiwan, East China, Thailand, And The Philippines by : Lynn T White

Download or read book Political Booms: Local Money And Power In Taiwan, East China, Thailand, And The Philippines written by Lynn T White and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2009-06-10 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why have Taiwan, rich parts of China, and Thailand boomed famously, while the Philippines has long remained stagnant both economically and politically? Do booms abet democracy? Does the rise of middle “classes” promise future liberalization? Why has Philippine democracy brought no boom and barely served the Filipino people?This book, unlike most previous studies, shows that both the roots and results of growth are largely political rather than economic. Specifically, it pays attention to local, not just national, power networks that caused or prevented growth in the four places under consideration. Violence has been common in these polities, along with money. Elections have contributed to socio-political problems that are also obvious in Leninist or junta regimes, because elections are surprisingly easy to buy with corrupt money from government contracts. Liberals should pay more serious theoretical attention to the effects of money on justice, and Western political science should focus more clearly on the ways non-state local power affects elections. By considering the effects on fair justice of local money and power (largely from small- and medium-sized firms that emerge after agrarian reforms), this book asks democrats to face squarely the extent to which electoral procedures fail to help ordinary citizens. Students and scholars of Asia will all need this book — as will students of the West whose methods have become parochial.


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