Authoritarian Legality in Asia

Authoritarian Legality in Asia

Author: Weitseng Chen

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-07-16

Total Pages: 409

ISBN-13: 1108496687

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Provides an intra-Asia comparative perspective of authoritarian legality, with a focus on formation, development, transition and post-transition stages.


Authoritarian Rule of Law

Authoritarian Rule of Law

Author: Jothie Rajah

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012-04-16

Total Pages: 367

ISBN-13: 1107012414

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Through a focus on Singapore, this book presents an analysis of authoritarian legalism, showing how prosperity, public discourse, and a rigorous observance of legal procedure enable a reconfigured rule of law - liberal form but illiberal content. It shows how institutions and process become tools to constrain dissenting citizens while protecting those in political power.


Authoritarian Legality in Asia

Authoritarian Legality in Asia

Author: Weitseng Chen

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-07-16

Total Pages: 409

ISBN-13: 1108750710

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A cluster of Asian states are well-known for their authoritarian legality while having been able to achieve remarkable economic growth. Why would an authoritarian regime seek or tolerate a significant degree of legality and how has such type of legality been made possible in Asia? Would a transition towards a liberal, democratic system eventually take place and, if so, what kind of post-transition struggles are likely to be experienced? This book compares the past and current experiences of China, Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Singapore, and Vietnam and offers a comparative framework for readers to conduct a theoretical dialogue with the orthodox conception of liberal democracy and the rule of law.


Corruption Control in Authoritarian Regimes

Corruption Control in Authoritarian Regimes

Author: Christopher Carothers

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2022-04-07

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 1316513289

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Reveals how meaningful corruption control by authoritarian regimes is surprisingly common and follows a different playbook than democratic anti-corruption reform.


Emergency Powers in Asia

Emergency Powers in Asia

Author: Victor V. Ramraj

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 531

ISBN-13: 052176890X

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What role does, and should, legal, political, and constitutional norms play in constraining emergency powers, in Asia and beyond.


Ordering Power

Ordering Power

Author: Dan Slater

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2010-08-09

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 1139489968

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Like the postcolonial world more generally, Southeast Asia exhibits tremendous variation in state capacity and authoritarian durability. Ordering Power draws on theoretical insights dating back to Thomas Hobbes to develop a unified framework for explaining both of these political outcomes. States are especially strong and dictatorships especially durable when they have their origins in 'protection pacts': broad elite coalitions unified by shared support for heightened state power and tightened authoritarian controls as bulwarks against especially threatening and challenging types of contentious politics. These coalitions provide the elite collective action underpinning strong states, robust ruling parties, cohesive militaries, and durable authoritarian regimes - all at the same time. Comparative-historical analysis of seven Southeast Asian countries (Burma, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, South Vietnam, and Thailand) reveals that subtly divergent patterns of contentious politics after World War II provide the best explanation for the dramatic divergence in Southeast Asia's contemporary states and regimes.


Authoritarian Capitalism

Authoritarian Capitalism

Author: Richard W. Carney

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-04-26

Total Pages: 333

ISBN-13: 1316510115

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The liberal-democratic world order is confronting the rise of authoritarian state-led corporate interventions. This book explains how and why.


Courts and Democracies in Asia

Courts and Democracies in Asia

Author: Po Jen Yap

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-09-28

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 1107192625

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This book illuminates how law and politics interact in the judicial doctrines and explores how democracy sustains and is sustained by the exercise of judicial power.


Democracy and Authoritarianism in South Asia

Democracy and Authoritarianism in South Asia

Author: Ayesha Jalal

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1995-04-06

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 0521472717

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A comparative and historical study of the interplay between democratic politics and authoritarian states in South Asia.


The Contentious Public Sphere

The Contentious Public Sphere

Author: Ya-Wen Lei

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2019-09-03

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 0691196141

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Using interviews, newspaper articles, online texts, official documents, and national surveys, Lei shows that the development of the public sphere in China has provided an unprecedented forum for citizens to organize, influence the public agenda, and demand accountability from the government.