Product Description: This volume adopts a multidisciplinary and comparative approach to development that brings together issues that are characteristic of the lifelong scholarship of Professor Gordon White. These include a focus on the state, civil society, welfare and globalization.

There is increasing interest in East Asian welfare models as many politicians in both East and seek out examples to underpin their own ideas for reform. In this, the first broad ranging study of the East Asian welfare, the contributors explore the experiences of six societies in East Asia and make clear the realities behind the political rhetoric. They examine the role of the state within welfare systems using case studies of pensions, health insurance, housing and personal social services. The result is the only up-to-date detailed analysis in English of how these various systems have developed and will continue to develop in the future. It will be a valuable and wide ranging resource for both students and policy-makers alike.

Product Description: This volume analyzes the merits and limitations of both welfarist and neoliberal approaches to the provision of key social services in terms of the outcomes and sustainability of the two approaches. It proposes an alternative model of social provision, characterized by multiplicity in service delivery and financing...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The 1990s have witnessed the ascendance of a new orthodoxy which asserts that democracy and development are mutually reinforcing. However, many new democracies are illiberal, non-participatory, and characterized by enormous inequalities...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Explores the political dynamics of the recent wave of democratization in developing societies. Within a broad comparative perspective, the text focuses on the particular experiences of four countries - South Korea, Ghana, Zambia and Chile...read more

Product Description: Since 1978, China has pursued sweeping economic changes in an officially sponsored transition from a Stalinist centrally planned economy to a socialist market economy. This book explores the extent to which this experience can be described and understood in terms of the idea of "civil society", defined as the emrgence of an autonomous sphere of voluntary associations capable of organizing the interests of emergent socio-economic groups and counterbalancing the hitherto unchallenged dominance of the Marxist-Leninist state...read more

Product Description: Mobile radio is one of the fastest growing areas in communications, and there is a constant need for technicians and managers who are conversant with the technology. Mobile Radio Technology explains the systems currently operating and those under development...read more

Product Description: Analyzing the evolution of China's financial reforms since Deng Xiaoping gained firm control of the CCP leadership in 1978, this book examines the reforms from a political economic perspective and explores the complex interactions between the actors shaping the reform process...read more

Product Description: The book analyses and evaluates the development role and impact of the state in East Asia, in both capitalist (South Korea and Taiwan) and socialist (China) contexts. It makes use of new research data on the mechanisms and impact of state intervention in East Asian development and presents an original theory, taking issue with the conventional view that East Asian development reflects the power of market forces...read more

Product Description: This treatment of the many aspects of video is written for the engineer or technician working in television or ancillary industries. The book will also be useful to anyone seeking information outside their own particular specialization and to production staff and electronics engineers who need a working knowledge of techniques in this rapidly changing industry...read more