東華大學圖書館 |

Language: English

Help

回圖書館首頁

手機版館藏查詢

Back

Switch To: Labeled | MARC Mode | ISBD

Capitalist formation and social ineq...

Kuo, Liangwen.

Linked to FindBook

Google Book

Amazon

博客來

Capitalist formation and social inequality in Taiwan.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Capitalist formation and social inequality in Taiwan./
Author:	Kuo, Liangwen.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 1991,
Description:	211 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 53-03, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International53-03A.
Subject:	Social structure. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9128819

Capitalist formation and social inequality in Taiwan.
Kuo, Liangwen.

Capitalist formation and social inequality in Taiwan. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1991 - 211 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 53-03, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 1991.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

The question of how capitalists have implemented financial and economic policies favorable to their own purpose for capital accumulation through their participation in politics and, in turn, have produced social inequality through the manipulation of the functioning of market mechanisms is the primary empirical issue in this dissertation. The question of how and why changing state-society relations, i.e., the weakening of the state's autonomy and the emergence of capitalist forces in the civil society, affect the redistributions of societal resources and precipitate the emergence of social inequality is the theoretical concern developed in this dissertation. This dissertation adopts a "multi-comparative methodology" to examine the major theoretical hypotheses of this study. Were there any other historical alternatives for Taiwan to develop in a different way? If there were not, then, why not? By asking the question "could it be otherwise," all other major "objective possibilities" (or historical alternatives) of Taiwan's socio-economic development are analyzed. In order to find out the most important determining factors of why Taiwan's development shifted towards capitalist formation and social inequality, the question "why not otherwise" is raised. In answering this question, I analyze why Taiwan did not move to communism, welfare capitalism, and market capitalism through a different dynamic process. The findings suggest that the social inequality which reemerged in Taiwan in the 1980s was mainly generated by the capitalist participation in financial and economic legislation that impacted on the marketization and the privatization of Taiwan's economy, a process which favored the capital accumulation of the rich and resulted in socially inequitable wealth and income redistribution. The objective of this study is to construct a synthesized theory and an alternative, multi-comparative methodology explaining Taiwan's development toward capitalist formation and its consequential impact on the redistribution of wealth and income. The purpose for utilizing a multi-comparative methodology is to interpret both the historical contingency and the causal relationships of Taiwan's political, social, and economic development. A theoretical analysis focusing on state autonomy and class relations, on the other hand, provides the most viable explanation for the reemergence of social and economic inequality in Taiwan after 1980.Subjects--Topical Terms:

528995
Social structure.
Subjects--Index Terms:

China

Capitalist formation and social inequality in Taiwan.
LDR:03587nmm a2200337 4500 001 2270765
005 20200930060204.5
008 220629s1991 ||||||||||||||||| ||eng d
035 $a (MiAaPQ)AAI9128819
035 $a AAI9128819
040 $a MiAaPQ $c MiAaPQ
100 1 $a Kuo, Liangwen. $3 3548144
245 1 0 $a Capitalist formation and social inequality in Taiwan.
260 1 $a Ann Arbor : $b ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, $c 1991
300 $a 211 p.
500 $a Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 53-03, Section: A.
500 $a Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
500 $a Advisor: Cheng, Lucie C.
502 $a Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 1991.
506 $a This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.
506 $a This item must not be added to any third party search indexes.
520 $a The question of how capitalists have implemented financial and economic policies favorable to their own purpose for capital accumulation through their participation in politics and, in turn, have produced social inequality through the manipulation of the functioning of market mechanisms is the primary empirical issue in this dissertation. The question of how and why changing state-society relations, i.e., the weakening of the state's autonomy and the emergence of capitalist forces in the civil society, affect the redistributions of societal resources and precipitate the emergence of social inequality is the theoretical concern developed in this dissertation. This dissertation adopts a "multi-comparative methodology" to examine the major theoretical hypotheses of this study. Were there any other historical alternatives for Taiwan to develop in a different way? If there were not, then, why not? By asking the question "could it be otherwise," all other major "objective possibilities" (or historical alternatives) of Taiwan's socio-economic development are analyzed. In order to find out the most important determining factors of why Taiwan's development shifted towards capitalist formation and social inequality, the question "why not otherwise" is raised. In answering this question, I analyze why Taiwan did not move to communism, welfare capitalism, and market capitalism through a different dynamic process. The findings suggest that the social inequality which reemerged in Taiwan in the 1980s was mainly generated by the capitalist participation in financial and economic legislation that impacted on the marketization and the privatization of Taiwan's economy, a process which favored the capital accumulation of the rich and resulted in socially inequitable wealth and income redistribution. The objective of this study is to construct a synthesized theory and an alternative, multi-comparative methodology explaining Taiwan's development toward capitalist formation and its consequential impact on the redistribution of wealth and income. The purpose for utilizing a multi-comparative methodology is to interpret both the historical contingency and the causal relationships of Taiwan's political, social, and economic development. A theoretical analysis focusing on state autonomy and class relations, on the other hand, provides the most viable explanation for the reemergence of social and economic inequality in Taiwan after 1980.
590 $a School code: 0031.
650 4 $a Social structure. $3 528995
650 4 $a Social research. $3 2122687
653 $a China
653 $a income distribution
690 $a 0700
690 $a 0344
710 2 $a University of California, Los Angeles. $3 626622
773 0 $t Dissertations Abstracts International $g 53-03A.
790 $a 0031
791 $a Ph.D.
792 $a 1991
793 $a English
856 4 0 $u http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9128819