Research Catalog

Title

Small countries, big lessons : governance and the rise of East Asia / Hilton L. Root.

Author

Root, Hilton L.

Publication

Hong Kong ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.

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Details

Additional Authors

Asian Development Bank.

Description

xxi, 246 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

• Development management has for far too long been immobilized by an unwillingness to reconsider the structure and role of government. The notion that government institutions themselves (and not just the policies they implement) can be altered to achieve policy goals challenges these old assumptions. In this book, Hilton L. Root demonstrates that the ability to craft and adopt new institutions is as important to good governance as the formulation of new policies. Drawing lessons from the rapid economic rise of East Asia, he documents how institutional innovation and reform changed the course of development in seven East Asian countries.
• Through analysis of East Asia's transition from a network to a contract-based economy, this book identifies some general and transferable lessons for social and economic development as a whole. These lessons offer the best hope to developing countries of building the institutional foundations necessary to enjoy the benefits of a global economy.

Subject

• Since 1945
• Democracy > East Asia
• Democracy > Southeast Asia
• Democracy
• Politics and government
• Politisches System
• Demokratie
• Demokratisierung
• Politik
• Politische Institution
• Politische Reform
• Strukturwandel
• Wirtschaftsentwicklung
• Economische ontwikkeling
• East Asia > Politics and government
• Southeast Asia > Politics and government > 1945-
• East Asia
• Southeast Asia
• Ostasien
• Südostasien

Note

• "Published for the Asian Development Bank by Oxford University Press."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p.[227]-238) and index.

Contents

Prologue: A French Fable Revisited -- Ch. 1. Institutional Innovation in East Asian Development -- Ch. 2. The Republic of Korea: Park Chung Hee's 'Modernization of the Fatherland' -- Ch. 3. Taipei, China's Great Separation -- Ch. 4. Singapore: What's in a Name? -- Ch. 5. Hong Kong's 'Positive Noninterventionism' -- Ch. 6. Malaysia: The Will To Grow -- Ch. 7. Indonesia: Informality Triumphs -- Ch. 8. The Philippines: The New State of Patronage -- Ch. 9. The State's Role in East Asian Development / Hilton L. Root and Barry R. Weingast -- Ch. 10. The Search for Good Governance -- App. A. Institution Building for Development.

ISBN

• 019590026X
• 9780195900262
• 0195876970
• 9780195876970

LCCN

96019242

OCLC

• ocm34590999
• 34590999
• SCSB-2107713

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library