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Politics in Pacific Asia An Introduction

by: Huang, Xiaoming

Politics in Pacific Asia An Introduction

by: Huang, Xiaoming

ISBN 13:
9780230521780
ISBN 10:
0230521789
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 05/15/2009
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

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Using China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines as core examples throughout, this major new text provides a comprehensive, up-to-date and very accessible introduction to the politics of an increasingly significant and dynamic region of the contemporary world.

List of Illustrative Material	p. x
List of Abbreviations and Acronyms	p. xiii
Preface	p. xv
Introduction	p. 1
What are Pacific Asian politics?	p. 1
Pattern and dynamics of Pacific Asian Politics	p. 3
Pacific Asian politics in a comparative context	p. 4
The field of study	p. 5
How to use this text	p. 7
The historical context	p. 9
Early state formation	p. 10
The centralized state model	p. 13
The fragmented state model	p. 15
The court-village structure	p. 16
Models of European colonia rule and 'colonial modernity'	p. 16
Nationalism in the early twentieth century	p. 18
Pluralist politics in early post-war Pacific Asia, and why it failed	p. 22
Leninist party-states, military	p. 22
regimes and single-party dominant states	p. 27
Transformation of the Cold War regimes	p. 29
'All roads lead to Rome'?	p. 33
States and the political executive	p. 36
The institutional and cultural foundations of state dominance	p. 36
Types of states in Pacific Asia	p. 40
Constitutions and the problem of legitimacy	p. 44
Organization of the executive branch	p. 46
Federal states without federalism	p. 48
Faces of unitary states	p. 50
The vertical administrative control model	p. 51
Decentralization and devolution	p. 53
Government, legislatures and judiciaries	p. 60
Forms of government	p. 63
Presidential systems	p. 63
Parlimentary systems	p. 64
Parliaments, congresses and people's congresses	p. 68
Semi-presidential systems	p. 67
Other forms of government	p. 67
Parliaments, congresses and people's congresses	p. 68
The making of law	p. 69
Membership in the legislature	p. 72
Rule of law and rule by law	p. 73
Legislative powers over the executive	p. 74
Supreme courts and constitutional courts	p. 75
Judicial review and judicial activism	p. 76
One state or three branches?	p. 77
Grand political alliances: the fourth branch of government?	p. 78
Limits of executive dominance	p. 80
The politics of bureaucracy	p. 84
From emprerors' servants to public servants	p. 85
The best and the brightest: bureaucracy as a social class	p. 86
Bureaucracy and the political executive	p. 88
Authority delegation and bureaucratic insulation: bureaucracy as an organizational weapon of the state	p. 90
The Weberian ideal and Pacific Asian practices: patrimonialism and corruption	p. 92
How political liberalization reduces the power of the bureautcracy	p. 94
Pressures for reform	p. 95
How Pacific Asia Measures up in good governance	p. 96
Public sector reforms: 'paradigm shifts or business as usual?'	p. 98
The state and the economy	p. 104
The developmental state	p. 105
Economic activism	p. 105
Across the boundaries	p. 107
How governments govern the market	p. 109
Industrial policy	p. 112
Growth alliance and 'Japan, Inc.'	p. 113
Rent deployment and rent seeking	p. 114
Constraints on state power	p. 115
Does law matter for economic development?	p. 116
An Asian model of economic development?	p. 118
Growing out of the model	p. 120
Parties and elections	p. 124
Party systems in Pacific Asia	p. 124
Catch-all parties and corporatist parties	p. 128
Party structures	p. 130
Candidate selection procedures	p. 132
Membership, recruitment and grassroots organization	p. 134
Factionalism and regionalism	p. 135
Party funding and money politics	p. 138
Party system reforms	p. 140
Electoral systems in Pacific Asia	p. 141
The model for LDP dominance	p. 144
Electoral rules in non-pluralist states	p. 145
Elections and mass integration	p. 146
Electoral reforms: trends and debates	p. 147
Electoral rules, party politics and political order	p. 148
Participation and power	p. 153
State and society	p. 154
Being a politically active citizen in Pacific Asian countries	p. 156
Methods of political participation and action	p. 159
'People power' revolutions	p. 162
Becoming a politician	p. 163
How a politician generates and sustains political support	p. 165
Who are the elites?	p. 168
How elites influence politics and government	p. 169
State co-option and accommodation of elites	p. 170
Civil society in Pacific Asia	p. 170
The civil society debate	p. 171
Types of civil society and the roles of each	p. 173
The ambiguity of the middle class	p. 174
Labour unions, labour subordination and the labour movement	p. 175
Ideologies, identities and political communication	p. 180
Political ideologies and political action in Pacific Asia	p. 181
Communism, socialism and Asian societies	p. 181
Capitalism, the market economy and global expansion	p. 184
Democracy and the politics of democratization	p. 188
Identity and identity politics	p. 189
Gender and social inequality	p. 190
Ethnicity and the nation-state	p. 191
The Malaysian model	p. 192
The Singaporean model	p. 193
The Chinese state and ethinic minorities	p. 194
Chinese civilization and the cultural identities of 'Confucian' societies	p. 195
National identity and states	p. 196
Korea and Taiwan: nation and state	p. 197
The role of the media in Pacific Asian politics	p. 198
Politics of the internet	p. 202
The international media	p. 202
Modernization and democracy: is there an Asian way?	p. 206
Modern state building in Pacific Asia	p. 206
'Nation, religion and king'	p. 208
The role of religion in Pacific Asian politics	p. 208
Confucianism and a moral political order	p. 212
The family as a model of governance	p. 215
The military as the guardians of the state	p. 216
When democracy becomes' Asian'	p. 219
Democratic institutions and political structure	p. 220
Development and democracy	p. 222
The problem of illiberal democracy	p. 223
The politics of human rights	p. 224
Is there an Asian way of governance?	p. 225
The Asian values debate	p. 225
Theories of multiple modernities	p. 227
Globalization, regionalism and the myth of the Asian century	p. 231
External forces and domestic politics	p. 231
The principle and practices of sovereignty in Pacific Asia	p. 232
The regional interstate system before the Second World War	p. 235
Asian states and international society	p. 238
Post-war bipolar structure and the 'flying geese' pattern	p. 239
Why is there no Asian Union?	p. 241
Effects of the international structure	p. 244
Globalization and Asian politics	p. 245
Asian states in the international system	p. 248
The myth of an Asian century	p. 250
References	p. 255
Index	p. 270
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Politics in Pacific Asia An Introduction

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0230521789

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