
Mobilizing for Development
Mobilizing for Development tackles the question of how countries achieve rural development and offers a new way of thinking about East Asia''s political economy that challenges the developmental state paradigm. Through a comparison of Taiwan (1950s–1970s), South Korea (1950s–1970s), and China (1980s–2000s), Kristen E. Looney shows that different types of development outcomes—improvements in agricu...
Mobilizing for Development tackles the question of how countries achieve rural development and offers a new way of thinking about East Asia''s political economy that challenges the developmental state paradigm. Through a comparison of Taiwan (1950s–1970s), South Korea (1950s–1970s), and China (1980s–2000s), Kristen E. Looney shows that different types of development outcomes—improvements in agricu...