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The institutional imperative : the politics of equitable development in Southeast Asia

Book information

Publisher
Stanford University Press
Year
2011
ISBN
9780804781794, 0804781796, 978-0-8047-7083-5
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4233793 bytes)
Series
Studies of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center
Pages
342 p.\370
Time added
2014-06-12 06:00:00

Description

Why do some countries in the developing world achieve growth with equity, while others do not? If democracy is the supposed panacea for the developing world, why have Southeast Asian democracies had such uneven results? In exploring these questions, political scientist Erik Martinez Kuhonta argues that the realization of equitable development hinges heavily on strong institutions, particularly institutionalized political parties and cohesive interventionist states, and on moderate policy and ideology. The Institutional Imperative is framed as a structured and focused comparative-historical anal. Read more...

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