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Koizumi and Japanese Politics
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 138.00This book offers an empirical and theoretical study of the Koizumi administration, covering such issues as the characteristics of its political style, its domestic and foreign policies, and its larger historical significance. The key questions that guide its approach are: what enabled Koizumi to exercise unusually strong leadership, and what structural... more...
The Problem of Bureaucratic Rationality
Princeton University Press 1994; US$ 44.50Through a detailed account of the political battles over Japanese tax reform during the last two decades, Junko Kato draws an unconventional portrait of bureaucratic motivation, showing how fiscal bureaucrats exploit their unique technical knowledge to influence policymaking. Rejecting the notion that the monopolization of policy expertise leads to... more...
The Making of Northeast Asia
Stanford University Press 2010; US$ 24.95This book offers a detailed analysis of the domestic politics of regionalism in the three major nations of Northeast Asia (China, Japan, and Korea), as well as in the most important external actor, the United States. more...
Korruption in Thailand
Diplomica Verlag 2007; US$ 40.98Hauptbeschreibung Stimmabgabe gegen Bares, Bauaufträge nach Bezahlung, Veruntreuung öffentlicher Gelder. Egal von welchen Ereignissen die Rede ist, alle umschreiben ein und dasselbe Übel; die Korruption. Jahrelang hatten Teile der Welt die Augen vor dem Ausmaß der weltweiten Korruption verschlossen und nahmen an, dass Korruption nur in Entwicklungsländern... more...
The Chinese Communist Party and China?s Capitalist Revolution
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 130.00The Chinese Communist Party and China?s Capitalist Revolution examines issues of political change and development in China. In the last 30 years China has experienced a profound political transformation and a degree of political progress but these are largely mired in the assumption that the free market is inherently incompatible with communism, and... more...
China's Peaceful Rise in a Global Context
Lexington Books 2010; US$ 69.99China's rise has become inevitable, but there is no agreement about whether China will rise peacefully or pose a threat to the United States. The author asserts that both theories of 'China threat' and 'peaceful rise' failed to address China's central domestic problem. Thus, both theories are not convincing. This book attempts to develop a third view... more...
The Institutional Dynamics of China's Great Transformation
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 148.00This book examines the role of institutions in China?s recent large-scale economic, social and political transformation. The book argues that, although the importance of institutions in China?s rapid economic growth and social development over the past 30 years is widely acknowledged, exactly how institutions affect changes in particular national... more...
Democracy and the Rule of Law in China
BRILL 2010; US$ 146.00Democracy and the Rule of Law in China is intended to make debates among prominent Chinese intellectuals and academics over issues of political, constitutional, and legal reform; modes of governance in urban and rural China; and culture and cultural policy available to English-language readers. The writers included in this book are individuals whose... 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...
Informal Politics in East Asia
Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 27.00This book is a pioneering effort to develop theoretical principles about informal political structures in East Asia. more...









