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1. Political Conflict and Development in East Asia and Latin America

   Edited by Richard Boyd, Galjart Benno, Tak-Wing Ngo

   Long run processes of socio-economic change generate prodigious problems of social conflict and social control, and governments responsible for these processes must therefore manage the resultant conflict. Consequently, the success or failure of a government's management of such conflicts is a...

   Published September 12th 2012 by Routledge
2. Asian States

   Beyond the Developmental Perspective

   Edited by Richard Boyd, Tak Wing Ngo

   Series: Politics in Asia

   A team of international leading experts provide a much needed re-examination of the theoretical claims and the empirical foundation of developmental state theory. Asian States argues that regardless of the merits of the developmental state as an explanation of economic growth, it falls far...

   Published December 21st 2009 by Routledge
3. State Making in Asia

   Edited by Richard Boyd, Tak-Wing Ngo

   Series: Politics in Asia

   Including contributions from an international team of leading experts, this volume examines state making from a uniquely Asian perspective and reveals some of the misunderstandings that arise when states and state making are judged solely on the basis of Western history. The contributors argue that...

   Published May 20th 2009 by Routledge