In the pages that follow, we argue that American representative democracy is neither representative nor democratic.Sovereign will formation is not happening. Lacking sovereign legitimacy, top-down bureaucratic rule is but petty autocracy. Worse, the postmodern condition that we describe deprives the culture at large of any robust basis in shared reality from which the sovereignty of the whole p…
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.