Buku ini memuat lima artikel yang ditulis dalam kurun waktu 1987-1998, mengenai berbagai faktor yang mempengaruhi dinamika ekonomi negara-negara di kawasan Asia Tenggara dan Timur yang pernah disanjung sebagai "keajaiban Asia" namun yang kemudian beramai-ramai terpuruk ke dalam krisis ekonomi.
This book has been a long time in its writing, but fortunately as the decade has rolled on we have found that the simplistic private-good, public-bad propositions that heard in 1990 have been largerly discredited. The reader will find that s/he has a vast interdisiplinary range of concepts and analytical frame-works to explore.
One major purpose of this book is to account for the policies adopted by African governments. We assume throughout that politcal action is purposeful behavior, and that among the major purposes of governments are the pursuit of certain social objectives and the resources needed to achieve them.
Korea has indeed been transformed from a subsistent agricultural economy into a newly industrialized one during the past three decades.Few economies in the world have matched the phenomenal economic development of South Korea - hereinafter Korea - in terms of industrialzation and technological progress.
This is a book about the way public policies are made and un-made. it seeks to explain how individual decisions and programs are shaped by the larger patterns of political life. The book does this by suggesting that policies emerge as the regular creations of policy systems.
The aim of Third World Politics: A Concise Introduction is to present an analysis of politics in the contemporary Third World, with particular emphasison the post-Cold War 1990s.
Buku ini diterbitkan dalam upaya untuk menambah wawasan ilmu kebijaksanaan pemerintah bagi pengambil keputusan, utamanaya di tingkat daerah. Semoga buku ini dapat bermanfaat bagi pejabat pemerintah, masyarakat dan menambah khasanah kepustakaan.