Political Parties and Democracy
Author: Kay Lawson
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 2010-07-20
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 0313380600
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Elections in Asia and the Pacific : A Data Handbook
Author: Dieter Nohlen
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2001-11-15
Total Pages: 876
ISBN-13: 0191530425
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis two-volume work continues the series of election data handbooks published by OUP. It presents a first-ever compendium of electoral data for all the 62 states in Asia, Australia and Oceania from their independence to the present. Following the overall structure of the series, an initial comparative introduction on elections and electoral systems is followed by chapters on each state of the region. Written by knowledgeable and renowned scholars, the contributions examine the evolution of institutional and electoral arrangements, and provide systematic surveys of the up-to-date electoral provisions and their historical development. Exhaustive statistics on national elections and referendums are given in each chapter. Together with the other books of this series, Elections in Asia and the Pacific is a highly reliable resource for historical and cross-national comparisons of elections and electoral systems world-wide. The second volume of Elections in Asia and the Pacific covers the Asia-Pacific area, i.e. the 30 independent states of East Asia (including Japan), South East Asia and the South Pacific (including Australia and New Zealand).
Party System Institutionalization in Asia
Author: Allen Hicken
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 375
ISBN-13: 1107041570
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides a comprehensive empirical and theoretical analysis of the development of parties and party systems in Asia. The studies included advance a unique perspective in the literature by focusing on the concept of institutionalization and by analyzing parties in democratic settings as well as in authoritarian settings. The countries covered in the book range from East Asia to Southeast Asia to South Asia.
Political Parties in the Pacific Islands
Author: Roland Rich
Publisher:
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA benchmark reference survey of the political parties of the Pacific. The coherent structure of the volume makes it consistently useful as both an articulate analytical text and a reference tool of the compostion and hsitory of the Pacific states.
Political Parties of Asia and the Pacific [2 Volumes]
Author: Haruhiro Fukui
Publisher: Greenwood
Published: 1985-12-11
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 031321350X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGives brief history of political development of each country and brief history of political parties of each country.
World Scientific Reference On Asia-pacific Trade Policies (In 2 Volumes)
Author: Kym Anderson
Publisher: World Scientific
Published: 2019-12-19
Total Pages: 1544
ISBN-13: 9813274719
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProtectionism has been placed under the media spotlight, with news headlines generated by populist anti-globalization movements and Donald Trump's term as US President. Such a policy stance is putting at risk unilateral trade reform efforts in the Asia-Pacific region and elsewhere.This two-volume reference work provides a timely update on how far the region has come in opening markets. It analyzes the motivations or ostensible objectives of policies adopted in the past, the changing extent of the domestic price distortions involved, the economic effects of those policies at home and abroad, the political economy forces at work that brought about those policies and their subsequent reform, their consequences for international trade, economic welfare and poverty alleviation, and prospects for sustainable improvements in current policies. Case studies of major East Asian economies and Australia reveal how government priorities to assist farmers versus manufacturers changed over the past century but especially since the 1980s, and how that has affected trade between natural resource-poor and resource-rich economies.This set is highly recommended for those who are interested in the economics and politics of trade policies, agricultural economics, economic development, and food and nutrition security in the Asia-Pacific region and beyond.
Asia's Reckoning
Author: Richard McGregor
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 418
ISBN-13: 0399562672
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChina, red or green -- Countering Japan -- Five ragged islands -- The golden years -- Japan says no -- Asian values -- Apologies and their discontents -- Yasukuni respects -- History's cauldron -- The Ampo mafia -- The rise and retreat of great powers -- China lays down the law -- Nationalization -- Creation myths -- Freezing point -- Afterword
Political Parties in the Pacific Islands
Author: Roland Rich
Publisher: ANU E Press
Published: 2008-04-01
Total Pages: 243
ISBN-13: 1921313765
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"ANU E Press edition of work originally published by Pandanus Books. While political parties remain an indispensable institutional framework for representation and governance in a democracy, the democracies of many Pacific Islands nations are undermined by the weakness and inefficacy of their local political parties. Addressing the implications of the lack of established party systems across the Pacific, this collection seeks to illuminate the underlying assumptions and suppositions behind the importance of coherent and effective parties to overall democratic functioning Focusing on the political systems of East Timor, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, Fiji and Samoa, the coherent structure of the volume makes it consistently useful as both an articulate analytical text and as a reference tool concerning the political composition, history and direction of Pacific states. Featuring contributions from scholars who are familiar names to even the most casual of Pacificists, Political Parties in the Pacific is the benchmark reference work on the political parties of the Pacific: an invaluable resource for students, scholars and researchers of the Pacific and international politics."--Provided by publisher.
Democracy for Sale
Author: Edward Aspinall
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2019-04-15
Total Pages: 327
ISBN-13: 1501732994
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDemocracy for Sale is an on-the-ground account of Indonesian democracy, analyzing its election campaigns and behind-the-scenes machinations. Edward Aspinall and Ward Berenschot assess the informal networks and political strategies that shape access to power and privilege in the messy political environment of contemporary Indonesia. In post-Suharto Indonesian politics the exchange of patronage for political support is commonplace. Clientelism, argue the authors, saturates the political system, and in Democracy for Sale they reveal the everyday practices of vote buying, influence peddling, manipulating government programs, and skimming money from government projects. In doing so, Aspinall and Berenschot advance three major arguments. The first argument points toward the role of religion, kinship, and other identities in Indonesian clientelism. The second explains how and why Indonesia's distinctive system of free-wheeling clientelism came into being. And the third argument addresses variation in the patterns and intensity of clientelism. Through these arguments and with comparative leverage from political practices in India and Argentina, Democracy for Sale provides compelling evidence of the importance of informal networks and relationships rather than formal parties and institutions in contemporary Indonesia.
Political Parties and Electoral Strategy
Author: O. Hellmann
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2011-05-27
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 0230307434
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA study of processes of political party formation and change in new democracies. This book argues that to understand party organizations we need to focus on politicians' electoral strategies. The framework is used to analyze political party development in the new democracies of East Asia (South Korea, Taiwan, the Philippines, and Indonesia.)
