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Political Legitimacy in Southeast Asia
The Quest for Moral Authority
Häftad, 1995
442 kr
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Despite the end of the Cold War, security continues to be a critical concern of Asian states. Allocations of state revenues to the security sector continue to be substantial and have, in fact, increased in several countries. As Asian nations construct a new security architecture for the …
Chiefs Today
Traditional Pacific Leadership and the Postcolonial State
Av Geoffrey M. White, Lamont Lindstrom m. fl.
Häftad, 2009
356 kr
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Thirty-five years after the first new Pacific states gained their independence, traditional leaders remain important political actors throughout the region. The political environs of the South Pacific, freshly populated with presidents, prime ministers, members of parliament, and local judiciary …
Making Majorities
Constituting the Nation in Japan, Korea, China, Malaysia, Fiji, Turkey, and the United States
Häftad, 1998
442 kr
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Majorities are made, not born. This book argues that there are no pure majorities in the Asia-Pacific region, broadly defined, nor in the West. Numerically, ethnically, politically, and culturally, societies make and mark their majorities under specific historical, political, and social …
Capital, Coercion, and Crime
Bossism in the Philippines
Inbunden, 1999
1594 kr
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This book focuses on local bossism, a common political phenomenon where local power brokers achieve monopolistic control over an area's coercive and economic resources. Examples of bossism include Old Corruption in eighteenth-century England, urban political machines in the United States, caciques …
Capital, Coercion, and Crime
Bossism in the Philippines
Häftad, 1999
386 kr
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This book focuses on local bossism, a common political phenomenon where local power brokers achieve monopolistic control over an area's coercive and economic resources. Examples of bossism include Old Corruption in eighteenth-century England, urban political machines in the United States, caciques …
Population Change and Economic Development in East Asia
Challenges Met, Opportunities Seized
Av Andrew Mason
Inbunden, 2002
2500 kr
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What role did population change play in East Asia's rapid economic development? A reliable answer to the question is important because the extraordinary economic record of East Asian countries during their high-growth era (1960-90) is central to current development policy debates. This book argues …
Population Change and Economic Development in East Asia
Challenges Met, Opportunities Seized
Av Andrew Mason
Häftad, 2002
596 kr
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What role did population change play in East Asia's rapid economic development? A reliable answer to the question is important because the extraordinary economic record of East Asian countries during their high-growth era (1960-90) is central to current development policy debates. This book argues …
Opposing Suharto
Compromise, Resistance, and Regime Change in Indonesia
Inbunden, 2005
895 kr
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Opposing Suharto presents an account of democratization in the world's fourth most populous country, Indonesia. It describes how opposition groups challenged the long-time ruler, President Suharto, and his military-based regime, forcing him to resign in 1998. The book's main purpose is to explain …
Opposing Suharto
Compromise, Resistance, and Regime Change in Indonesia
Häftad, 2005
386 kr
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Opposing Suharto presents an account of democratization in the world's fourth most populous country, Indonesia. It describes how opposition groups challenged the long-time ruler, President Suharto, and his military-based regime, forcing him to resign in 1998. The book's main purpose is to explain …
Beyond Bilateralism
U.S.-Japan Relations in the New Asia-Pacific
Av Ellis S. Krauss, T. J. Pempel
Inbunden, 2003
1291 kr
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This is the first comprehensive analysis of the ways in which changes in the geopolitical context have altered the nature of the long-stable U.S.-Japan relationship: much of what had once been a bilateral and relatively exclusive relationship has been transformed in the past two decades. The …
Beyond Bilateralism
U.S.-Japan Relations in the New Asia-Pacific
Av Ellis S. Krauss, T. J. Pempel
Häftad, 2003
311 kr
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This is the first comprehensive analysis of the ways in which changes in the geopolitical context have altered the nature of the long-stable U.S.-Japan relationship: much of what had once been a bilateral and relatively exclusive relationship has been transformed in the past two decades. The …
Blowback
Linguistic Nationalism, Institutional Decay, and Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka
Av Neil DeVotta
Inbunden, 2004
1641 kr
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In the mid-1950s, Sri Lanka's majority Sinhalese politicians began outbidding one another on who could provide the greatest advantages for their community, using the Sinhala language as their instrument. The appeal to Sinhalese linguistic nationalism precipitated a situation in which the movement …
Blowback
Linguistic Nationalism, Institutional Decay, and Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka
Av Neil DeVotta
Häftad, 2004
397 kr
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In the mid-1950s, Sri Lanka's majority Sinhalese politicians began outbidding one another on who could provide the greatest advantages for their community, using the Sinhala language as their instrument. The appeal to Sinhalese linguistic nationalism precipitated a situation in which the movement …
Fourth Circle
A Political Ecology of Sumatra's Rainforest Frontier
Inbunden, 2006
2047 kr
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This book addresses the politics of environmental change in one of the richest areas of tropical rainforest in Indonesia. Based on field studies conducted in three agricultural communities in rural Aceh, this work considers a number of questions: How do customary (adat) village and state …
Fourth Circle
A Political Ecology of Sumatra's Rainforest Frontier
Häftad, 2006
498 kr
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This book addresses the politics of environmental change in one of the richest areas of tropical rainforest in Indonesia. Based on field studies conducted in three agricultural communities in rural Aceh, this work considers a number of questions: How do customary (adat) village and state …
Rising China and Asian Democratization
Socialization to "Global Culture" in the Political Transformations of Thailand, China, and Taiwan
Inbunden, 2006
1594 kr
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This book argues that democratization is inherently international: states democratize through a process of socialization to a liberal-rational global culture. This can clearly be seen in Taiwan and Thailand, where the elites and attentive public now accept democracy as universally valid. But in …
Japan's Dual Civil Society
Members Without Advocates
Inbunden, 2006
1480 kr
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This book provides an overview of the state of Japan's civil society and a new theory, based on political institutions, to explain why Japan differs so much from other industrialized democracies. It offers a new interpretation of why Japan's civil society has developed as it has, with many small, …
Japan's Dual Civil Society
Members Without Advocates
Häftad, 2006
344 kr
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This book provides an overview of the state of Japan's civil society and a new theory, based on political institutions, to explain why Japan differs so much from other industrialized democracies. It offers a new interpretation of why Japan's civil society has developed as it has, with many small, …
Southeast Asia in Political Science
Theory, Region, and Qualitative Analysis
Av Erik Martinez Kuhonta, Dan Slater m. fl.
Inbunden, 2008
1594 kr
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This book argues that Southeast Asian political studies have made important contributions to theory building in comparative politics through a dialogue involving theory, area studies, and qualitative methodology. The book provides a state-of-the-art review of key topics in the field, including: …
Reconfiguring Families in Contemporary Vietnam
Av Danièle Bélanger, Magali Barbieri
Inbunden, 2009
1707 kr
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Reconfiguring Families in Contemporary Vietnam chronicles and analyzes the most significant change for families in Vietnam's recent past – the transition to a market economy, referred to as Doi Moi in Vietnamese and generally translated as the "renovation". Two decades have passed since the …
Reconfiguring Families in Contemporary Vietnam
Av Danièle Bélanger, Magali Barbieri
Häftad, 2009
414 kr
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Reconfiguring Families in Contemporary Vietnam chronicles and analyzes the most significant change for families in Vietnam's recent past – the transition to a market economy, referred to as Doi Moi in Vietnamese and generally translated as the "renovation". Two decades have passed since the …
Rise of the Red Engineers
The Cultural Revolution and the Origins of China's New Class
Av Joel Andreas
Inbunden, 2009
1525 kr
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Rise of the Red Engineers explains the tumultuous origins of the class of technocratic officials who rule China today. In a fascinating account, author Joel Andreas chronicles how two mutually hostile groups—the poorly educated peasant revolutionaries who seized power in 1949 and China's old …
Rise of the Red Engineers
The Cultural Revolution and the Origins of China's New Class
Av Joel Andreas
Häftad, 2009
354 kr
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Rise of the Red Engineers explains the tumultuous origins of the class of technocratic officials who rule China today. In a fascinating account, author Joel Andreas chronicles how two mutually hostile groups—the poorly educated peasant revolutionaries who seized power in 1949 and China's old …
Rising China and Asian Democratization
Socialization to "Global Culture" in the Political Transformations of Thailand, China, and Taiwan
Häftad, 2008
386 kr
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This book argues that democratization is inherently international: states democratize through a process of socialization to a liberal-rational global culture. This can clearly be seen in Taiwan and Thailand, where the elites and attentive public now accept democracy as universally valid. But in …
Southeast Asia in Political Science
Theory, Region, and Qualitative Analysis
Av Erik Martinez Kuhonta, Dan Slater m. fl.
Häftad, 2008
386 kr
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This book argues that Southeast Asian political studies have made important contributions to theory building in comparative politics through a dialogue involving theory, area studies, and qualitative methodology. The book provides a state-of-the-art review of key topics in the field, including: …
Localising Power in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia
A Southeast Asia Perspective
Av Vedi Hadiz
Inbunden, 2010
1186 kr
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This book is about how the design of institutional change results in unintended consequences. Many post-authoritarian societies have adopted decentralization—effectively localizing power—as part and parcel of democratization, but also in their efforts to entrench "good governance." Vedi Hadiz …
Localising Power in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia
A Southeast Asia Perspective
Av Vedi Hadiz
Häftad, 2010
288 kr
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This book is about how the design of institutional change results in unintended consequences. Many post-authoritarian societies have adopted decentralization—effectively localizing power—as part and parcel of democratization, but also in their efforts to entrench "good governance." Vedi Hadiz …
Beyond the Middle Kingdom
Comparative Perspectives on China's Capitalist Transformation
Inbunden, 2011
1140 kr
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This book breaks new ground by systematically examining China's capitalist transformation through several comparative lenses. The great majority of research on China to date has consisted of single-country studies. This is the result of the methodological demands of studying China and a sense of …
Beyond the Middle Kingdom
Comparative Perspectives on China's Capitalist Transformation
Häftad, 2011
274 kr
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This book breaks new ground by systematically examining China's capitalist transformation through several comparative lenses. The great majority of research on China to date has consisted of single-country studies. This is the result of the methodological demands of studying China and a sense of …
Constructing China's Jerusalem
Christians, Power, and Place in Contemporary Wenzhou
Av Nanlai Cao
Inbunden, 2010
1242 kr
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Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork and in-depth life history interviews, this illuminating book provides an intimate portrait of contemporary Chinese Christianity in the context of a modern, commercialized economy. In vivid detail, anthropologist Nanlai Cao explores the massive resurgence …
