Market Economics and Political Change: Comparing China and MexicoJuan David Lindau, Timothy Cheek Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1998 - 346 pages Does market liberalization promote democracy? The accepted answer from scholars, pundits, and politicians alike has been yes. However, the contributors to this innovative study of market reforms and political change in Mexico and the People's Republic of China argue that this easy equation is not only empirically uncertain but methodologically flawed. Using comparative contextual analysis, the contributors carefully identify the elective affinities between these two very different polities to reveal key variables that determine how markets will affect democracy, particularly law as the 'rudder of democracy' and the role of political culture in civil society. |
Contents
Market Liberalization and Democratization The Case for Comparative Contextual Analysis | 3 |
Market Economics and Political Change A Historical and Theoretical Examination | 33 |
REGIONAL CONTEXT | 57 |
MarketOriented Reforms and National Development in Latin America | 59 |
Socialist Marketization and East Asian Industrial Structure Locating Civil Society in China | 95 |
JUDICIAL SYSTEM CIVIL SOCIETY AND POLITICAL CULTURE | 125 |
Mexico Economic Liberalism in an Authoritarian Polity | 127 |
Economic and Legal Reform in China Whither Civil Society and Democratization? | 159 |
From Market to Democracy in China Gaps in the Civil Society Model | 219 |
EXTENDING THE ANALYSIS | 253 |
Constructive Engagement and Economic Sanctions The Debate over Intervention for Democracy | 255 |
Market Liberalization and Democratic Politics Perspectives from the Russian Experience | 279 |
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About the Editors and Contributors | 345 |
The Civil Society and Democratization in Mexico | 187 |
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Market Economics and Political Change: Comparing China and Mexico Juan D. Lindau,Timothy Cheek Limited preview - 2000 |
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Remaking China's Public Philosophy for the Twenty-first Century Jinghao Zhou No preview available - 2003 |