The changing role of business associations in democratizing Taiwan

Journal of Contemporary China

Volumn 7, Issue 18, 1998, Pages 303-320

  McBeath, Gerald A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS ASSOCIATIONS; DEMOCRATISATION; POLITICAL ECONOMY; STATE-SOCIETY RELATIONS;

TAIWAN;

EID: 0031683412     PISSN: 10670564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10670569808724317     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. We do not, however, consider a fourth interpretation, which explains Taiwan's development in terms of a nexus of cultural factors, and primarily by means of Confucianism, because the concepts it employs are not comparative inside the East Asian region (see Gilbert Rozman, ed., The East Asian Region: Confucian Heritage and Its Modem Adaptation (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1991). Nor do we consider a fifth approach, dependency theory, which most scholars find to be inadequate in explaining change in Taiwan (see Edwin A. Winckler and Susan Greenhalgh, eds, Contending Approaches to the Political Economy of Taiwan (Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, Inc., 1988).
2. We do not, however, consider a fourth interpretation, which explains Taiwan's development in terms of a nexus of cultural factors, and primarily by means of Confucianism, because the concepts it employs are not comparative inside the East Asian region (see Gilbert Rozman, ed., The East Asian Region: Confucian Heritage and Its Modem Adaptation (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1991). Nor do we consider a fifth approach, dependency theory, which most scholars find to be inadequate in explaining change in Taiwan (see Edwin A. Winckler and Susan Greenhalgh, eds, Contending Approaches to the Political Economy of Taiwan (Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, Inc., 1988).
3. See, for example, W. Galenson, ed., Economic Growth and Structural Change in Taiwan: The Postwar Experience of the Republic of China (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1979).
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33. This section is based on analysis in the author's 'Transformation of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT): adjusting to liberalization', American Journal of Chinese Studies, (October 1997).
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