Taiwan in the 21st Century: Aspects and limitations of a development model Book

Notes on Contributors     xiii
Note on Romanization     xvi
Introduction     1
Economic life in mainland China and Taiwan and the rise of a productive market economy   Ramon H. Myers     10
Taiwan's success and vulnerability: Lessons for the 21st century   Gustav Ranis     36
Taiwan's development experience: Stability with growth, 1950-2002   Erik Thorbecke   Henry Wan     54
Can the 'Taiwan Model' of growth with equity be replicated in the Southeast Asian context?   Anne Booth     74
Comparative productivity performance in manufacturing between Taiwan and mainland China, 1961-97   Harry X. Wu   Xinpeng Xu     100
Taiwan's knowledge-based economy: A historical perspective on higher education, manpower planning and economic development   J. Megan Greene     128
Re-engineering the developmental state in an age of globalization: Taiwan's quest for high-tech industries   Yun-Han Chu     154
Democratization in a Chinese community: Lessons from Taiwan   Steve Tsang     177
Democratic transition and the rule of law in Taiwan: A development model for the developing world?   Bernard Y. Kao     194
Constitutional developments in Taiwan and democratization of the Republic of China: A model or a precedentfor the People's Republic of China?   Jean-Pierre Cabestan     213
A Tocquevillian process: Taiwan's democratization and its paradoxical foundations   Francoise Mengin     232
Is the party over? Taiwan's Kuomintang from power to opposition   Thomas B. Gold     249
Index     272