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AQA A2 Government & Politics Student Unit Guide: Unit 4A The Government of the USA
Hodder Education 2012; US$ 15.98Focused revision for your best possible grade. more...
Accepting Authoritarianism
Stanford University Press 2010; US$ 25.95This comprehensive examination of the latest and most influential research on state-society relations in post-Mao China explains why three decades of capitalist economic growth have not led to increased public pressure for liberal democratic change. more...
Advancing East Asian Regionalism
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 49.95Developments in East Asia have progressed rapidly in terms of regionalism since the 1997 crisis. The end of the Asian miracle called into question not only the capacity of regional states to meet the needs of their attendant peoples, but also challenged the viability of regional organizations, such as ASEAN, to adapt and respond to the changing circumstances.... more...
Ancient Chinese Thought, Modern Chinese Power
Princeton University Press 2011; US$ 35.00The rise of China could be the most important political development of the twenty-first century. What will China look like in the future? What should it look like? And what will China's rise mean for the rest of world? This book, written by China's most influential foreign policy thinker, sets out a vision for the coming decades from China's point... more...
Asia's Unknown Uprisings Volume 1
PM Press 2012; US$ 15.99Using social movements as a prism to illuminate the oft-hidden history of 20th-century Korea, this book provides detailed analysis of major uprisings that have patterned the country?s politics and society. From the 1894 Tonghak uprising through the March 1, 1919, independence movement and anti-Japanese resistance, a direct line is traced to the popular... more...
Authority and Welfare in China
Palgrave Macmillan 1998; US$ 185.00This book describes the relationship between political authoritarianism and people's welfare in modern China. Based on a study of Chinese political discourse from the 1898 reform period to the present, the book demonstrates that support for authoritarian rule in modern China is best understood when compared to ancient political traditions of authority... more...
Ballot Box China
Zed Books 2011; US$ 29.95Since 1988, China has undergone one of the largest, but least understood, experiments in grassroots democracy. Across 600,000 villages, with almost a million elections, some three million officials have been elected. This book looks at the history of the elections, how they arose, what they have achieved and where they might be going, exploring the... more...
Beyond Liberal Democracy
Princeton University Press 2009; US$ 35.00Is liberal democracy appropriate for East Asia? In this provocative book, Daniel Bell argues for morally legitimate alternatives to Western-style liberal democracy in the region. Beyond Liberal Democracy , which continues the author's influential earlier work, is divided into three parts that correspond to the three main hallmarks of liberal democracy--human... more...
Building Democracy
Hong Kong University Press 2003; US$ 24.00This book offers an analysis of Hong Kong's current political situation within the larger context of its political history and its relationship to Beijing. more...
Bureaucracy, Economy, and Leadership in China
Cambridge University Press 1991; US$ 35.00This study examines the origins of the Great Leap Forward, a programme of economic reform that must be considered one of the great tragedies of Communist China. more...









