Product Description: 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 previous books, shows that both the roots and results of growth are largely political, not just economic...read more

Product Description: This book documents the bases for a new view of legitimacy in general and in various parts of Asia, including China, Malaysia, South Korea, Taiwan and Japan. The authors see legitimacy anywhere as always partial, rather than total, and somewhat measurable...read more

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Product Description: This work argues that local political networks in China have taken over resources and legitimacy that the central state once enjoyed, and they, rather than Beijing, have mainly created reforms. Examples are taken from political economy, culture, religion, art and literature.

Product Description: The tumult of the Cultural Revolution after 1966 is often blamed on a few leaders in Beijing, or on long-term egalitarian ideals, or on communist or Chinese political cultures. Lynn White shows, however, that the chaos resulted mainly from reactions by masses of individuals and small groups to three specific policies of administrative manipulation: labeling groups, designating bosses, and legitimating violence in political campaigns...read more

The journal World Politics, published for Princeton's Center of International Studies by Princeton University Press, has been a major forum for refining the "systems" or "functional" approach to political change-and for challenges to that approach, and for essays that compare it with alternatives such as culturalist or dependency theories. Political System and Change includes articles on the analytic categories political scientists have developed for understanding the Third World. Many essays in this anthology are concise summaries of later books that are now famous landmarks in the study of comparative politics. PART I: INTRODUCTION LYNN T. WHITE III and IKUO KABASHIMA, "Systematic Definitions for Development Politics" PART II: POLITICAL SYSTEM: DEFINITIONS AND FUNCTIONS DAVID EASTON, "An Approach to the Analysis of Political Systems" (1957) GABRIEL A. ALMOND, "A Developmental Approach to Political Systems" (1965) J. ROLAND PENNOCK, "Political Development, Political Systems, and Political Goods" (1966) PART III: POLITICAL ORDER SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON, "Political Development and Political Decay" 1965) TED GURR, "Psychological Factors in Civil Violence" 1968) ROBERT D. PUTNAM, "Toward Explaining Military Intervention in Latin American Politics" (1967) PART IV: CHALLENGES AND CHANGES CLAUDE AKE, "Modernization and Political Instability: A Theoretical Exploration" (1974) C. S. WHITAKER, JR., "A Dysrhythmic Process of Political Change (1967) HOWARD J. WIARDA, "Toward a Framework for the Study of Political Change in the Iberic-Latin Tradition: The Corporative Model" (1973) IKUO KABASHIMA, "Supportive Participation with Economic Growth: The Case of Japan" (1984) PART V: AGENDA FOR FUTURE STUDY HARRY ECKSTEIN, "The Idea of Political Development: From Dignity to Efficiency" (1982) TONY SMITH, "Requiem or New Agenda for Third World Studies?" Ikuo Kabashima is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Institute of Socio-Economic Planning, University of Tsukuba, Japan. Lynn T. White III is Associate Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University.