Yap's innovative volume stresses the importance of symbiotic relationships among citizen
power, political processes and" miracle" economic performance in four Asian economies.
She offers an alternative to the foci of the genre of academic literature that characterizes"
Asian governments as benevolent overlords and Asian citizens as politically naïve and
docile"(p. 187). Her alternative model is designed to test the validity of the hypothesis that
citizens co-operate and invest their economic resources when economies are strong but …