Elements in Politics and Society in East Asia – serie
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The Adaptability of the Chinese Communist Party
Häftad, 2025
302 kr
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The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) celebrated its one-hundredth birthday in 2021. Its durability poses a twofold question: How has the party survived thus far? And is its survival formula sustainable in the future? This Element argues that the CCP has displayed a continuous capacity for adaptation, …
Politics of the North Korean Diaspora
Häftad, 2024
308 kr
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Politics of the North Korean Diaspora examines how authoritarian security concerns shape global diaspora politics. Empirically, it traces the recent emergence of a North Korean diaspora - a globally-dispersed population of North Korean émigrés - and argues that the non-democratic nature of the DPRK …
Japan's New Industrial Policy
Häftad, 2025
308 kr
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Once hailed for implementing an industrial policy so effective that it transformed Japan into a model 'developmental state,' from the 1980s Japan steadily liberalized its economy and Japanese firms increasingly shifted production abroad via outward foreign direct investment. Yet industrial policy …
Political Selection in China
Rethinking Foundations and Findings
Häftad, 2023
308 kr
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Political selection is about how individuals are selected to political office - and this substantially determines the quality of governance. The evidence favors democratic elections as the selection institution that produces high governance quality. Yet authoritarian China, where a communist party …
The State and Capitalism in China
Av Margaret M. Pearson, Meg Rithmire m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
369 kr
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China's contemporary political economy features an emboldened role for the state as owner and regulator, and with markets expected to act in the service of party-state goals. How has the relationship between the state and different types of firms evolved? This Element situates China's reform-era …
U.S. Allies and the Taiwan Strait
Av Adam P. Liff
Häftad, 2026
260 kr
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Against the backdrop of worsening tensions across the Taiwan Strait, this Element analyzes the positions and policies vis-...-vis Taiwan of six major democratic US treaty allies-Japan, Australia, South Korea, the United Kingdom, France, Germany-and the European Union. Historically and today, these …
Political Selection in China
Rethinking Foundations and Findings
Inbunden, 2023
911 kr
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Political selection is about how individuals are selected to political office - and this substantially determines the quality of governance. The evidence favors democratic elections as the selection institution that produces high governance quality. Yet authoritarian China, where a communist party …
Environmental Politics in East Asia
Inbunden, 2023
911 kr
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Once viewed as an environmental hazard to the planet, East Asia is now at the forefront of pro-environmental policymaking. The region's progress has been both remarkable and surprising given the pro-business orientation of its political systems and their ideological diversity. Through a focus on …
Politics of the North Korean Diaspora
Inbunden, 2024
911 kr
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Politics of the North Korean Diaspora examines how authoritarian security concerns shape global diaspora politics. Empirically, it traces the recent emergence of a North Korean diaspora - a globally-dispersed population of North Korean émigrés - and argues that the non-democratic nature of the DPRK …
Refugee Policies in East Asia
Inbunden, 2025
911 kr
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East Asia stands apart from the rest of Asia in the prevalence of the institutionalization of the 1951 Refugee Convention. Despite this widespread adoption of the Convention in East Asia, the record on implementation into domestic law and policy is uneven. This Element offers a comparative analysis …
The Adaptability of the Chinese Communist Party
Inbunden, 2025
911 kr
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The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) celebrated its one-hundredth birthday in 2021. Its durability poses a twofold question: How has the party survived thus far? And is its survival formula sustainable in the future? This Element argues that the CCP has displayed a continuous capacity for adaptation, …
Authoritarian Survival and Leadership Succession in North Korea and Beyond
Av Edward Goldring, Peter Ward
Häftad, 2025
282 kr
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Authoritarian Survival and Leadership Succession in North Korea and Beyond examines how dictators manage elites to facilitate succession. Theoretically, it argues that personalistic incumbents facilitate the construction of a power base of elites from outside of their inner circle to help the …
Authoritarian Survival and Leadership Succession in North Korea and Beyond
Av Edward Goldring, Peter Ward
Inbunden, 2025
911 kr
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Authoritarian Survival and Leadership Succession in North Korea and Beyond examines how dictators manage elites to facilitate succession. Theoretically, it argues that personalistic incumbents facilitate the construction of a power base of elites from outside of their inner circle to help the …
Japan's New Industrial Policy
Inbunden, 2025
911 kr
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Once hailed for implementing an industrial policy so effective that it transformed Japan into a model 'developmental state,' from the 1980s Japan steadily liberalized its economy and Japanese firms increasingly shifted production abroad via outward foreign direct investment. Yet industrial policy …
The Welfare State in East Asia
Av Joseph Wong
Inbunden, 2025
911 kr
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During the postwar period, Japan, Taiwan and South Korea emerged as industrial and democratic exemplars in the East Asia region. A less well-known story is of their equally remarkable achievements in social policy reform and the formation of welfare states. Section 1 of the Element provides an …
U.S. Allies and the Taiwan Strait
Av Adam P. Liff
Inbunden, 2026
838 kr
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Against the backdrop of worsening tensions across the Taiwan Strait, this Element analyzes the positions and policies vis-...-vis Taiwan of six major democratic US treaty allies-Japan, Australia, South Korea, the United Kingdom, France, Germany-and the European Union. Historically and today, these …
State, Society and Markets in North Korea
Av Andrew Yeo
Häftad, 2021
308 kr
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Under Kim Jong-un, North Korea has experienced growing economic markets, an emerging 'nouveau riche,' and modest levels of urban development. To what extent is North Korean politics and society changing? How has the growth of markets transformed state-society relations? This Element evaluates the …
The Welfare State in East Asia
Av Joseph Wong
Häftad, 2025
308 kr
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During the postwar period, Japan, Taiwan and South Korea emerged as industrial and democratic exemplars in the East Asia region. A less well-known story is of their equally remarkable achievements in social policy reform and the formation of welfare states. Section 1 of the Element provides an …
The Digital Transformation and Japan's Political Economy
Av Ulrike Schaede, Kay Shimizu
Häftad, 2022
308 kr
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Digital transformation and demographic change are usually seen as two separate but equally threatening events that foreshadow job replacement, industrial decline, and social bifurcation. Because Japan is the world's frontrunner in demographic change with an ageing and shrinking society, it is …
Environmental Politics in East Asia
Häftad, 2023
302 kr
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Once viewed as an environmental hazard to the planet, East Asia is now at the forefront of pro-environmental policymaking. The region's progress has been both remarkable and surprising given the pro-business orientation of its political systems and their ideological diversity. Through a focus on …
Japan as a Global Military Power
New Capabilities, Alliance Integration, Bilateralism-Plus
Häftad, 2022
317 kr
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Japan is emerging as a more prominent global and regional military power, defying traditional categorisations of a minimalist contribution to the US-Japan alliance, maintaining anti-militarism, seeking an internationalist role, or carving out more strategic autonomy. Instead, this Element argues …
The East Asian Covid-19 Paradox
Häftad, 2022
276 kr
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The Covid-19 pandemic triggered the first global public health emergency since 1918, the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression, and the greatest geopolitical tensions in decades. Global governance mechanisms failed. Yet, East Asian countries (with caveats) managed to control Covid-19 …
State and Social Protests in China
Av Yongshun Cai, Chih-Jou Jay Chen
Häftad, 2022
308 kr
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China has witnessed numerous incidents of social protests over the past three decades. Protests create uncertainty for authoritarian governments, and the Chinese government has created, strengthened, and coordinated multiple dispute-resolution institutions to manage social conflicts and protests. …
Refugee Policies in East Asia
Häftad, 2025
308 kr
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East Asia stands apart from the rest of Asia in the prevalence of the institutionalization of the 1951 Refugee Convention. Despite this widespread adoption of the Convention in East Asia, the record on implementation into domestic law and policy is uneven. This Element offers a comparative analysis …
