Known as the Taiwan Miracle, the Republic of China on Taiwan (R.O.C.) has, over the past thirty-five years, experienced one of the world's highest rates of economic growth. Arguing that major theoretical frameworks for analyzing international political economy are often too simplistic in that they omit key factors or overly generalize from relationships found only in limited situations, Clark uses a detailed case history of the R.O.C. to suggest not only that development and dependency in contemporary society are extremely complex and indeterminate processes, but that development in Taiwan deviates significantly from the postulates of the two leading paradigms of international political economy. To go even further, Clark states that Taiwan's economic growth and transformation resulted from its deviation from the normal dependency syndrome. Indeed, a development strategy based on economic flexibility and periodic regime change that has made this flexibility possible are hallmarks in Taiwan's success story. The United States and other advanced industrial economies whose past successes have created economic and political barriers to future adaptation can be better understood in terms of the characteristics of R.O.C.'s development strategy.Part I of the three-part work focuses on environment, first discussing various paradigms and theories about development and then presenting an historical overview of Taiwan. The second part investigates Taiwan's international role, political development, and rapid economic growth. The volume closes with a chapter devoted to the implications of the Taiwan experience and political economy paradigms. Eight figures and thirty-five tables illustrate facets of Taiwan's development, including government structure, indicators of agricultural development, industrialization, educational progress, and export performance, among others. Because of the detailed presentations of political economy theories and their variants, especially in relation to economic and political development in Taiwan, this volume would be an excellent choice for courses in political economy, developing societies, Asian politics, and international relations theory, as well as libraries serving students in these areas.

Taiwan's Development: Implications for Contending Political Economy Paradigms (Contributions in Economics and Economic History)

Business & Money

Clark, Cal

Economics

Praeger

Using the developmental history of Taiwan as a starting point, Flexibility, Foresight and Fortuna critically examines several prevalent formulations of domestic development and international economy.The authors examine Taiwan's policy performance from, in turn, the developmental, the dependency, the statist, and the trade-off perspectives on political economy. They reject these approaches in favour of the key ideas of flexibility, foresight and fortuna as an explanation of Taiwan's relatively unusual success in achieving domestic development and upward mobility in the international system.

Flexibility, Foresight and Fortuna in Taiwan's Development

Chan, Steve

Routledge

When a fluke incident causes Nick and Nate to lose every dime they have, they both go into more than panic mode. With the help of their girlfriends, they conceive a master sinister plan to get back everything they've lost and then some. But, not without a few complications. Realizing that these things could possibly hinder the fulfillment of their plans, they know it's vital that they come up with a Plan B. With thousands in money at stake, and their very lives on the line, friendships and characters become compromised, to say the least. Will they be able to stay on point, or will one slip up and someone else’s greed take them out of the game?

Greed

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

So It Is Written

The attitudes of individual citizens play a central role in a democracy. In the United States today, the two major parties are each associated with a broad set of policy positions representing the conservative and liberal political ideologies. The two major parties are becoming increasingly polarized on these ideologies between conservative Republicans and liberal Democrats. This book provides an in-depth examination of public opinion in a single American state, Alabama, to see whether the public opinion of general citizens follows this stereotype of ideological and partisan polarization. Alabama public opinion is analyzed on a fairly wide range of issues, including the quality of public officials, constitutional reform, the role of government in terms of taxes and overall spending, education, health care, religion in public life, crime, and immigration. Alabama is generally perceived as staunchly conservative politically and as a reliably 'red' Republican state in national elections. Yet, public opinion in Alabama is considerably more nuanced and complex than this stereotype in two distinct aspects. First, Alabamians are certainly conservative on many issues, but they are also liberal on a significant number of others. Second, the issue positions of the state's citizens are shaped by three different dynamics in terms of what factors influence specific attitudes. Furthermore a brief analysis of public opinion in the entire United States finds similar patterns. Thus, the current polarization in party politics does not necessarily reflect public opinion in its entirety, suggesting a need to transcend the competing conservative and liberal orthodoxies.

Public Opinion in Alabama: Looking Beyond the Stereotypes

Politics & Social Sciences

Veal, Don-Terry

Social Sciences

Lexington Books

Over the last four decades the public trust in government in the United States has fallen dramatically due to a "perfect storm" of contributing factors, such as a seemingly never ending string of political scandals, partisan polarization and toxic attack politics, and miserable failures to respond to natural disasters or the devastation of the Great Recession. This book contains the academic presentations that were made at the Symposium on Advancing Excellence and Public Trust in Government that was held at the National Press Club in Washington D.C. on September 17, 2007. In particular, the Symposium focused upon how improving transparency in governmental operations could be used to assuage some of the popular doubts about and hostility toward America's governments. There was certainly a very broad consensus at the Symposium that transparency in government is extremely desirable, needs to be improved, will bring reform and improvement to the public sector, and should make a major contribution to the restoration of the public trust in the United States. Indeed, support for improved transparency can be found across the political spectrum, as both conservatives and liberals believe that more openness in government will promote parts of their very different policy agendas. Truly, transparency appears to be an all-American issue. The discussion at the Symposium revolved around three broad themes. The first concerned transparency about government operations per se, such as how decisions were made and what detailed budgets are. A second and somewhat broader theme concerned greater transparency of "performance measures" which tell us what the effects of specific policies are and how effective or efficient government agencies are. Third and even more broadly, some of the participants argued that general questions of governance provide the key for a renewal of public trust among our citizenry. This book of presentations at the Symposium is organized into four parts based on this distinction. Part I contains

Advancing Excellence and Public Trust in Government

Sociology

Comparative patterns of foreign policy and trade: The Communist Balkans and international politics (Studies in East European and Soviet planning, development, and trade)

Politics & Government

International Development Research Center, Indiana University

The well respected Judge Daniel Adams is murdered in the mid-1950s, seemingly by his daughter Carrie. Police officials circumvent their own investigators and have her committed to the Elm Hill Psychiatric Hospital for Women, instead of being arrested. However, Carol Mason, Director of Nursing, spots several clues which indicate that Carrie may be innocent and that people in the hospital are involved in a cover up. She works to solve the murder and uncover Elm Hill’s dark secrets with an informal team of associates who call themselves the “Black Angels.” Their efforts uncover a conspiracy of sex and greed that explains the murder of Judge Adams and culminate in a night of discovery and danger for Nurse Mason and Andy Russell, a university student who is her temporary assistant, in Elm Hill’s Violent Ward.

The Black Angels

All Things That Matter Press

Preserving Basic U.S. Industries: The Implications of Trumponomics (Political Leaders and Their Assessment)

Clark, Evelyn A.

Nova Science Pub Inc

The collapse of state socialism in the Soviet bloc and the political upheavals in China following the Tiananmen Square incident have created the impression that neoclassical economics holds the key to global economic development and prosperity. This book challenges that view by comparing the post-war development histories of East and South Asia. The authors first show how the neoclassical model can be used to explain the significant development that has occurred not only in dynamic, industrialised East Asia, but in agrarian South Asia as well. They then take a closer look and demonstrate that laissez-faire economics may not in fact be an ideal model - that despite all the gains, South Asia's agricultural sectors remain backward and neglected, and East Asian economies are experiencing serious side effects, such as pollution and social decay. They conclude that governments need to guide the development process even more so than they do now in East Asia - and that the concept of development must be expanded to take into account the social impacts of economic growth.

Comparing Development Patterns in Asia

Roy, Kartik C.

Lynne Rienner Pub

The key issues of the health care system are often conceptualized as involving three basic dimensions: 1) the quality of health care provided, 2) access to the health care system, and 3) the cost of health care. Good systems should provide high quality medicine to all of the population requiring health care at affordable prices. Such a system, somewhat fancifully, might be praised for having achieved a "holy trinity." Such praise, unfortunately, is little to be found in the contemporary world. Over the last two decades, health costs have escalated steadily and in some cases dramatically throughout advanced industrial societies where quality health care had been available on a fairly wide basis. Moreover, aging populations throughout the developed world mean that there will be major increases in demands for the most costly health care services. The result has been that access and/or quality have eroded in many, if not most, nations. That is, the relationships among the three basic dimensions now constitute what Benjamin Cohen (in his analysis of international monetary relations) has called an "unholy trinity" in that improvements (or even attempted improvements) along one dimension will almost inevitably provoke problems in terms of one or both of the others. This book presents studies of two distinct types of reform that have been implemented to reduce the "trade offs" arising from the "unholy trinity." The first focuses upon attempts to reorganize existing institutions in order to make them more effective and cost-efficient. The second considers the move toward "evaluation research," that is, more critically evaluating health care treatments and outcomes to make sure that treatments are effective and cost-efficient.

The Health Care Financial Crisis: Strategies for Overcoming an "Unholy Trinity"

McEldowney, Rene

Industries

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