Mobilizing for Development: The Modernization of Rural East Asia

Mobilizing for Development tackles the question of how countries achieve rural development and offers a new way...
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Author: Kristen E. Looney
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Language: English
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Mobilizing for Development: The Modernization of Rural East Asia by Looney, Kristen E.

Mobilizing for Development: The Modernization of Rural East Asia

$173.45

Mobilizing for Development: The Modernization of Rural East Asia

$173.45
Author: Kristen E. Looney
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

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 agricultural production, rural living standards, and the village environment--were realized to different degrees, at different times, and in different ways. She argues that rural modernization campaigns, defined as policies demanding high levels of mobilization to effect dramatic change, played a central role in the region and that divergent development outcomes can be attributed to the interplay between campaigns and institutions. The analysis departs from common portrayals of the developmental state as wholly technocratic and demonstrates that rural development was not just a byproduct of industrialization.

Looney's research is based on several years of fieldwork in Asia and makes a unique contribution by systematically comparing China's development experience with other countries. Relevant to political science, economic history, rural sociology, and Asian Studies, the book enriches our understanding of state-led development and agrarian change.



Author: Kristen E. Looney
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 05/15/2020
Pages: 234
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.30w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781501748844
Audience: Young Adult

About the Author

Kristen Looney is Assistant Professor of Asian Studies and Government at Georgetown University.


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