Driven by Growth

By - James William Morley

Floor - Floor 1

Published - Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, c1993.

ISBN 10 - 1563240149

ISBN 13 - 9781563240140

Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.

Subject - Southeast Asia--Politics and government--1945-

Shelf No - 16

Call Number - 330.9504 DRI

Physical Description - xvi, 346 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Notes - Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-330) and index.

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While the rapid economic growth in the Asia-Pacific region was receiving great attention, its political consequences were being largely ignored, except for the widespread assumption that since nearly everyone wanted growth, it must be a good thing. But was growth having a stabilizing or destabilizing effect on the governments involved? Was it driving them in more authoritarian or more democratic directions? How to explain that high growth in China was compatible with communism, in Japan, with democracy, and in the other countries of the region with a bewildering variety of authoritarian, quasi-democratic, or democratic regimes? Had growth no political bearing? Or were the dynamics of its impact too subtle to analyze?

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