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1 online resource (273 pages) |
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Book Cover -- Half Title -- Series Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Contributors -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- Part I: Representation -- 2. Political culture and democratic consolidation in East and Southeast Asia -- 3. Parties and party systems in East and Southeast Asia -- Part II: Governance -- 4. The national executives in East and Southeast Asia -- 5. Bureaucratic performance, policy capacity and administrative reform -- 6. Economic governance and global engagement: Independent and dependent linkage -- Part III: Regionalism -- 7. Regionalism and state capacity in East Asia -- 8. Has the Japanese model ceased to be a magnet in Asia? -- 9. Citizens' values in East and Southeast Asia -- Part IV: Conclusion -- 10. Democratisation, regionalism and state capacity in East and Southeast Asia -- Index |
| Summary |
This new collection of essays compares the development of central institutions of governance in the emerging democracies of East and South East Asia. The seven key countries covered are: Taiwan, Korea, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines. Save for Singapore and Malaysia, all have democratized over the past decade. Because of its constitutive implications for citizen identities, democratisation is arguably of even greater potential significance than the economic take-off that preceded it. But there are distinctive features that give the experience of these seven states especial relevance. First, unlike analogous western patterns, democratic transitions in Asia have been top-down in character. Second, the implementation of basic democratic forms was highly compressed in time. Third there were (and are), in most countries, no major ideological or programmatic cleavages. Thus the bases around which contending political forces might organise are not immediately clear. This may affect the outlook for partisanship and mobilisation. There has been no synoptic, comparative study of these developments on a region-wide scale. This book fills the gap extremely well |
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Comparative government.
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Democratization -- East Asia -- Cross-cultural studies
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Democratization -- Southeast Asia -- Cross-cultural studies
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East Asia -- Politics and government
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Regionalism -- East Asia -- Cross-cultural studies
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Regionalism -- Southeast Asia -- Cross-cultural studies
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Southeast Asia -- Politics and government -- 1945-
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Comparative government
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Marsh, Ian.
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| ISBN |
1280549610 |
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9781280549618 |
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