Mobilizing for Development tackles the question of how countries achieve rural Development and offers a new way of thinking about East Asia\'s political economy that challenges the developmental state paradigm.
Relevant to political science, economic history, rural sociology, and Asian Studies, the book enriches our understanding of state-led Development and agrarian change.
Looney\'s research is based on several years of fieldwork in Asia and makes a unique contribution by systematically comparing China\'s Development experience with other countries.
The analysis departs from common portrayals of the developmental state as wholly technocratic and demonstrates that rural Development was not just a byproduct of industrialization.
She argues that rural modernization campaigns, defined as policies demanding high levels of mobilization to effect dramatic change, played a central role in the region and that divergent Development outcomes can be attributed to the interplay between campaigns and institutions.
Looney shows that different types of Development outcomes-improvements in agricultural production, rural living standards, and the village environment-were realized to different degrees, at different times, and in different ways.
Through a comparison of Taiwan (1950s-1970s), South Korea (1950s-1970s), and China (1980s-2000s), Kristen E.
Mobilizing for Development tackles the question of how countries achieve rural Development and offers a new way of thinking about East Asia\'s political economy that challenges the developmental state paradigm
