Kristen E. Looney’s <em>Mobilizing for Development: The Modernization of Rural East Asia</em>

Kristen E. Looney’s Mobilizing for Development: The Modernization of Rural East Asia

by Jessica C. Teets, Thomas B. Gold, Lynette H. Ong, Julia C. Strauss, and Kristen E. Looney
April 28, 2021

Jessica C. Teets, Thomas B. Gold, Lynette H. Ong, Julia C. Strauss, and author Kristen E. Looney discuss Looney’s book Mobilizing for Development: The Modernization of Rural East Asia, which analyzes rural development programs in Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, and China and the interplay between campaigns and institutions that contributed to divergent outcomes in these countries.

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Updating the East Asian Development Model:
The Role of Farmers’ Associations and Campaigns in Rural Modernization

Jessica C. Teets

A New Angle on the Developmental State

Thomas B. Gold

What Accounts for Rural Development in East Asia?

Lynette H. Ong

Rethinking Campaigns, Bureaucracy, and Rural Development in East Asia and Beyond

Julia C. Strauss

Author’s Response: China’s Rural Development in Comparative Perspective

Kristen E. Looney


Jessica C. Teets is an Associate Professor in the Political Science Department at Middlebury College (United States) and Associate Editor of the Journal of Chinese Political Science.

Thomas B. Gold is a Professor of Sociology at the University of California–Berkeley (United States).

Lynette H. Ong is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto (Canada).

Julia C. Strauss is a Professor in the Department of Politics and International Studies in the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London (United Kingdom).

Kristen E. Looney is an Assistant Professor of Asian Studies and Government at Georgetown University (United States), where she teaches courses on Chinese and comparative politics.


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