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Good Governance in Asia: Multiple Trajectories to Development book cover

1st Edition

Good Governance in Asia Multiple Trajectories to Development

Edited By Linda Chelan Li Copyright 2015
126 Pages
by Routledge

126 Pages
by Routledge

The international aid community has advocated governance reforms as a necessary complement to economic aid to developing countries. The resultant Good Governance Agenda has been criticised for its ahistorical bias. The empirical case studies reported in this book further illustrate the limitations by showing the complex logics of governance reforms and their relations with development in the... Read more

1. Multiple Trajectories and “Good Governance” in Asia: An Introduction  2. Governance Reforms in China and Vietnam: Marketisation, Leapfrogging and Retro-Fitting  3. The Heterodoxy of Governance under Decentralisation: Rent-Seeking Politics in China’s Tobacco Growing Areas  4. Good Governance for Environmental Protection in China: Instrumentation, Strategic Interactions and Unintended Consequences  5. Governance, Courts and Politics in Asia  6. Pursuing Equity in Education: Conflicting Views and Shifting Strategies

Biography

Professor Linda Li’s work stresses the necessity to examine both dimensions of collaboration and conflict in understanding public policy and political processes. Topics she studied include the dynamics of institutional and agency change processes in central-local relations in China, government reforms, rural public finance, and education and fiscal policy.

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