In recent years, debate on the state's economic role has too often devolved into diatribes against intervention. Peter Evans questions such simplistic views, offering a new vision of why state involvement works in some cases and produces disasters in others. To illustrate, he looks at how state agencies, local entrepreneurs, and transnational corporations shaped the emergence of computer industries in Brazil, India, and Korea during the seventies and eighties. Evans starts with the idea that states vary in the way they are organized and tied to society. In some nations, like Zaire, the state is predatory, ruthlessly extracting and providing nothing of value in return. In others, like Korea, it is developmental, promoting industrial transformation. In still others, like Brazil and India, it is in between, sometimes helping, sometimes hindering. Evans's years of comparative research on the successes and failures of state involvement in the process of industrialization have here been crafted into a persuasive and entertaining work, which demonstrates that successful state action requires an understanding of its own limits, a realistic relationship to the global economy, and the combination of coherent internal organization and close links to society that Evans called "embedded autonomy."

本书对拉丁美洲自1900年至今的民主化进程进行了深入细致的考察，以全面且独特的视角介绍并分析了拉丁美洲国家民主的起源及进化，借助诸多例证性的奇闻逸事、人物评论、方法论说明以及对概念化发展路径的评议，对拉美国家在向民主推进过程中所涉及的相关议题进行了生动阐释。 《论拉美的民主》是一部极具学术价值的政治学著作，其对拉丁美洲民主制度所进行的历史和比较视角的解读，为整个拉丁美洲的政治制度研究设定了标杆，作者不仅具有一定历史深度的独特视角，而且在庞杂信息的组织、复杂数据的分析以及语言的组织上，都表现出了一位出色政治学者所具有的研究功力。尽管是一部学术性的研究专著，但读起来绝不会让读者感到枯燥乏味。它是了解拉丁美洲民主制度不可多得的政治学入门读物。

Why hasn't the emergence of capitalism led China's citizenry to press for liberal democratic change? This book argues that China's combination of state-led development, late industrialization, and socialist legacies have affected popular perceptions of socioeconomic mobility, economic dependence on the state, and political options, giving citizens incentives to perpetuate the political status quo and disincentives to embrace liberal democratic change. Wright addresses the ways in which China's political and economic development shares broader features of state-led late industrialization and post-socialist transformation with countries as diverse as Mexico, India, Tunisia, Indonesia, South Korea, Brazil, Russia, and Vietnam. With its detailed analysis of China's major socioeconomic groups (private entrepreneurs, state sector workers, private sector workers, professionals and students, and farmers), Accepting Authoritarianism is an up-to-date, comprehensive, and coherent text on the evolution of state-society relations in reform-era China.

Contemporary Chinese Politics: Sources, Methods, and Field Strategies considers how new and diverse sources and methods are changing the study of Chinese politics. Contributors spanning three generations in China studies place their distinct qualitative and quantitative methodological approaches in the framework of the discipline and point to challenges or opportunities (or both) of adapting new sources and methods to the study of contemporary China. How can we more effectively use new sources and methods of data collection? How can we better integrate the study of Chinese politics into the discipline of political science, to the betterment of both? How can we more appropriately manage the logistical and ethical problems of doing political research in the challenging Chinese environment? In addressing these questions, this comprehensive methodological survey will be of immense interest to graduate students heading into the field for the first time and experienced scholars looking to keep abreast of the state of the art in the study of Chinese politics. 1 Contributors span three generations in China studies, and represent the top of the field in their particular methodological approaches 2 The most complete and up-to-date guide to fieldwork in China available; includes new and diverse sources and methods

本书简明扼要地慨述了美国政府与政治的基本方面，包括美国宪法结构、政府组织、政治过程、社会经济结构与过程等等，持论公允，深入浅出。具有鲜明特色的地方是，本书有助于读者进行参与式的学习和讨论，为读者提供了大量生动的图表和照片，并且在每一章都专门列出一个重要的争论问题，在每一章的后面都提供了相关的网络链接，为读者通过网络分析美国政治问题创造了方便的条件。 本书是美国大学里应用较广的教材，深受广大学生的喜爱，相信它对于我国大学相关专业的教师和学生也是一本极有价值的教学参考书，很多内容甚至可以直接在我们的教学过程中拿来运用。