Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Yet another book on 'liberal democracy'? -- Isn't it true anyway that the financial crisis of 1997-8 put an end to the 'Asian miracle'? -- 1 The question: is 'liberal democracy' good for economic development? -- 1.1 The context -- 1.2 The pro-'liberal democracy'and anti-'liberal democracy' camps: situating the democracy-development debate within the… -- 1.3 Focusing on the democracy-development connection -- 1.4 Focusing on Asia -- Part I The present context of democratisation and decomposing 'liberal democracy' -- 2 Decomposing 'liberal democracy' -- 2.1 'Economic', 'civil' and 'political' liberties -- 2.2 The three-fold architecture -- 2.3 A summary of points -- 2.4 Advantages of the new framework -- 3 Democratisation: between the 'liberal' and the 'democratic' -- 3.1 The possibilities, limits and conditions of democracy: the three stages of theorising on democratisation and the five… -- 3.1.1 'Pre-conditions' -- 3.1.2 'Political crafting' -- 3.1.3 'Structured contingency' -- 3.1.4 Five types of limiting factors -- 3.2 Thinking in terms of 'converging' and 'diverging' forces and noting their effect on the 'liberal' and 'democratic'… -- 3.2.1 'Global', international forces -- 3.2.2 Institutions and the state as the 'mediator' of international forces -- 3.2.3 The effect of more historically particular forces -- 3.3 Further differentiating these forces -- Par t II The democracy-development debate: old problem, new thinking -- 4 Constructing an empirical explanation -- 4.1 Macro vs micro -- 4.2 Using cases to explain -- 4.3 Using the Asian cases to explain the democracy-development connection -- 5 The democracy-development debate reconsidered -- 5.1 Some preliminary points.

5.2 The 'goodness' of 'liberal democracy' for economic development -- 5.2.1 The conditions: 'security', 'stability', 'openness and information' -- 5.2.2 Unpacking further -- 5.3 The counter-argument: 'trade-off' -- 5.3.1 The connection with authoritarianism -- 5.3.2 Explaining the Asian success: free market, developmental state, state autonomy, authoritarianism -- 5.4 Between the two sides -- 6 Reconstructing an explanation of the Asian success -- 6.1 Setting the agenda I: towards a more inclusionary institutionalism -- 6.2 Setting the agenda II: a different mix of liberties and a different set of institutions-institutionalisation of… -- 6.3 Setting the agenda III: achieving 'security', 'stability' and 'openness and information' in Japan and the East Asian NICs -- 6.4 Towards a wider conception of state strength -- 6.5 The democracy-development relationship in the Asian case -- 7 Conclusion: moving beyond the question of 'liberal democracy' -- 7.1 Summarising -- 7.2 Towards a new Asian model? -- Bibliography -- Index.