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Liberalism, democracy and development /
Chan examines the claim that developing countries should aspire to the Western model of liberal democracy for good governance and economic success. She argues that these successful developing nations have enjoyed the economic and social liberties necessary to encourage economic development, without...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2002.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Yet another book on liberal democracy'?
- Isn't it true anyway that the financial crisis of 1997 ... 8 put an end to the Asian miracle'?
- 1 The question: is liberal democracy' good for economic development?
- 1.1 The context
- 1.2 The pro- liberal democracy'and anti- liberal democracy' camps: situating the democracy ... development debate within the
- 1.3 Focusing on the democracy ... development connection
- 1.4 Focusing on Asia
- Part I The present context of democratisation and decomposing liberal democracy'
- 2 Decomposing liberal democracy'
- 2.1 Economic', civil' and political' liberties
- 2.2 The three-fold architecture
- 2.3 A summary of points
- 2.4 Advantages of the new framework
- 3 Democratisation: between the liberal' and the democratic'
- 3.1 The possibilities, limits and conditions of democracy: the three stages of theorising on democratisation and the five
- 3.2 Thinking in terms of converging' and diverging' forces and noting their effect on the liberal' and democratic'
- 3.3 Further differentiating these forces
- Part II The democracy ... development debate: old problem, new thinking
- 4 Constructing an empirical explanation
- 4.1 Macro vs micro
- 4.2 Using cases to explain
- 4.3 Using the Asian cases to explain the democracy ... development connection
- 5 The democracy ... development debate reconsidered
- 5.1 Some preliminary points
- 5.2 The goodness' of liberal democracy' for economic development
- 5.3 The counter-argument: trade-off'
- 5.4 Between the two sides
- 6 Reconstructing an explanation of the Asian success
- 6.1 Setting the agenda I: towards a more inclusionary institutionalism
- 6.2 Setting the agenda II: a different mix of liberties and a different set of institutions ... institutionalisation of
- 6.3 Setting the agenda III: achieving security', stability' and openness and information' in Japan and the East Asian NICs
- 6.4 Towards a wider conception of state strength
- 6.5 The democracy ... development relationship in the Asian case
- 7 Conclusion: moving beyond the question of liberal democracy'
- 7.1 Summarising
- 7.2 Towards a new Asian model?
- Bibliography.