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The fallout from the crisis in Asia has been immense. Asia's
position as the global economy's growth engine is now no longer
tenable. As the political and economic regimes that defined "Asian
capitalism" struggle to survive, it is by no means clear that free
markets, transparent and accountable systems of governance and more
vigorous civil societies will follow. The contributors to this book
argue that processes of globalization are driven by complex
political forces and that it is not enough to look at economic
factors in isolation. Chapters focus on the different political and
market institutions being forged in the wake of the crisis: from
the highly ordered responses of China and Singapore to the chaos
and disintergration in Indonesia; from the money politics of
Thailand to the developmentalist juggernauts of Korea. They put the
crisis in its global context, reassessing its impact on the
configurations of power and interest shaping global markets and
analyzing the major Western economies.
In this interdisciplinary study of governance, Hyuk-Rae Kim traces
how civil society and NGOs have evolved over time, how they differ
in motivation from their Western counterparts, and the role civil
society NGOs have played in consolidating democracy as the
governance system in Korea changes from a state-centric to a
contested one. This book presents civil society's rise in Korea
through in-depth analyses of today's most pressing issues, in order
to chart the shifting role of a formerly state-centric to a
contested governance system in modern Korea. With detailed case
studies and policy discussions, this book explores the role of NGOs
in campaigning for political reform and the eradication of
political corruption; the provision of public goods and services;
challenging the government's policies on migration; tackling the
issue of North Korean refugees and human rights; and the provision
of regional environmental governance. These case studies
demonstrate that the state is no longer the sole guardian and
provider of public institutions and goods and underline the growing
role of civil society in Korea. Both a study of contested
governance and an exploration of contemporary Korean society, this
book will be of imminent interest to students and scholars alike of
Korean politics, East Asian politics, governance, and civil
society.
In this interdisciplinary study of governance, Hyuk-Rae Kim traces
how civil society and NGOs have evolved over time, how they differ
in motivation from their Western counterparts, and the role civil
society NGOs have played in consolidating democracy as the
governance system in Korea changes from a state-centric to a
contested one. This book presents civil society's rise in Korea
through in-depth analyses of today's most pressing issues, in order
to chart the shifting role of a formerly state-centric to a
contested governance system in modern Korea. With detailed case
studies and policy discussions, this book explores the role of NGOs
in campaigning for political reform and the eradication of
political corruption; the provision of public goods and services;
challenging the government's policies on migration; tackling the
issue of North Korean refugees and human rights; and the provision
of regional environmental governance. These case studies
demonstrate that the state is no longer the sole guardian and
provider of public institutions and goods and underline the growing
role of civil society in Korea. Both a study of contested
governance and an exploration of contemporary Korean society, this
book will be of imminent interest to students and scholars alike of
Korean politics, East Asian politics, governance, and civil
society.
This book is a challenging volume by distinguished, leading scholars of East Asian political economy; it provides a distinct alternative to simplistic accounts of the Asian crisis which generally swing between an emphasis on convergence imposed by global economic forces, and the resurrection of the special patterns of East Asian economic governance. The authors argue that global forces and domestic structures are engendering new forms of economic and political regulation in East Asia. While these signal the death knell of the developmental state, this in itself does not presuppose a convergence towards a standard model of global capitalism. The arguments in this book will contribute significantly to the construction of a new research agenda for comparative political economy at the dawn of a new century. Politics and Markets in the Wake of the Asian Crisis covers a range of East Asian countries including the People's Republic of China, South Korea, Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia. All the studies are linked together by a common endeavour to explore the dynamic interaction between global economic forces and domestic structures. The book is at the cutting edge of the study of East Asian political economy, and is distinguished by the attention it pays to the regional and international context of the crisis. It also contains theoretically sophisticated analyses of organisations such as APEC and the IMF.
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