Informal Politics in East Asia

ISBN-13: 9780521645386 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 344 str.

Lowell Dittmer; Peter N. Lee; Haruhiro Fukui

Opis

The authors of Informal Politics in East Asia argue that political interaction within the informal dimension (behind-the-scenes politics) is at least as common and influential, though not always as transparent or coherent, as formal politics. This book is a pioneering effort to delineate the various forms of informal politics within different East Asian political cultures and to develop some common theoretical principles for understanding how they work. Featured here are contributions by political scientists specializing in the regions of China, Taiwan, Japan, the Korean peninsula, and Vietnam.

Recenzje

'… a ground breaking volume which highlights a key issue in considering governance within East Asia.' NZJAS

Spis treści

Introduction: on the significance of informal politics Haruhiro Fukui; Part I. Informal Politics under Dictatorship: 1. Informal politics among the CCP elite Lowell Dittmer; 2. North Korean informal politics Samuel S. Kim; 3. Informal politics of leadership succession in post-Mao China Peter N. S. Lee; 4. Clientage in the PRC's National Defense R&D Sector Benjamin Ostrov; 5. Formal structures, informal politics and political change in China Joseph Fewsmith; 6. Informal politics in Vietnam Douglas Pike; 7. Organizational involution and sociopolitical reform in China Xiaobo Lu and Lowell Dittmer; 8. Psychocultural foundations of informal groups Chung-fang Yang; Part II. Informal Politics under Democracy: 9. Informal politics of Japanese diet elections Haruhiro Fukui and Shigeko N. Fukai; 10. The election process and informal politics in South Korea xx Soohyon Chon; 11. Informal politics in Taiwan Tun-jen Cheng and Tein-cheng Chou; 12. Conclusion: East Asian informal politics in comparative perspective Lowell Dittmer.