Central-Local Relations in Asian Constitutional Systems

Andrew Harding is Professor of Law and Director of the Centre for Asian Legal Studies, Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore.Mark Sidel is Doyle-Bascom Professor of Law and Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

(..)the chapters in this collection provide both the inspiration and information for broader thematic and comparative work on central-local relations within Asia and globally.

• 1. Analysing Central-local Relations in Asian Constitutional Systems: Decentralising Power in 21st-Century Asia Andrew Harding and Mark Sidel2. Legalising Central-local Relations in China Zhang Qianfan3. Evolving Central-local Relations in a Contested Constitutional Democracy: The Case of Taiwan Jiunn-rong Yeh4. Central-local Relations and the Constitutional Discourse on Political Decentralisation in 21st-Century Vietnam Bui Ngoc Son5. Central-local Relations in Indonesia: Reforming the Integralist StateSimon Butt6. Ethnic Rights and Constitutional Change: The Recognition of Ethnic Nationalities inMyanmar/Burma Melissa Crouch7. The Role of the Central Government and Local Government in Times of Crisis: Japan ’ s ExperienceAfter the Great East Japan Earthquake Disaster Shigenori Matsui8. Local Democracy in a Multi-layered Constitutional System: Malaysian Local Government Reconsidered Andrew Harding