Asian Societies in Comparative Perspective
| Author | : Nordic Association for Southeast Asian Studies. Annual Conference |
| Publisher | : NIAS Press |
| Total Pages | : 452 |
| Release | : 1991 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9788787062145 |
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Administrative Law and Governance in Asia
| Author | : Tom Ginsburg |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 395 |
| Release | : 2008-10-30 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 1135970645 |
This book examines administrative law throughout Asia, exploring the profound changes in many legal regimes that have occurred. It shows how many states have shifted towards a more market-oriented regulatory state model, involving a greater role for judges and law-like processes, and explores the profound implications of this for policy-making.
Comparative Politics of Southeast Asia
| Author | : Aurel Croissant |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 453 |
| Release | : 2017-12-26 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 3319681826 |
This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the political systems of all ASEAN countries and Timor-Leste from a comparative perspective. It investigates the political institutions, actors and processes in eleven states, covering democracies as well as autocratic regimes. Each country study includes an analysis of the current system of governance, the party and electoral system, and an assessment of the state, its legal system and administrative bodies. Students of political science and regional studies will also learn about processes of democratic transition and autocratic persistence, as well as how civil society and the media influence the political culture in each country.
Initiatives of Regional Integration in Asia in Comparative Perspective
| Author | : Howard Loewen |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 224 |
| Release | : 2018-03-12 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 9402412115 |
This volume offers to compare and explain variances of regionalism in Asia by disclosing the distinctive features of regional arrangements and how they evolved during the 1990s and 2000s against the background of a changing global environment. Moreover, it takes up a genuinely ‘inter-Asian’ perspective. By analysing and comparing diverse manifestations of regional integration agreements across Asia and its different sub-regions, it sets out to track their common characteristics and sub-regional facets with respect to their establishment, design and consequences. In addition, political processes accompanying their negotiation and implementation are scrutinized. The analysis encompasses nine case studies written by renowned scholars who together as a group combine an extraordinary mixture of different disciplinary backgrounds as well as expertise on shapes and processes of regional integration in different parts of Asia. The case studies seize on some of the most important features and controversial issues characterizing the second regionalism. Such are the emergence and impact of overlapping FTAs, regional financial and sub-regional economic integration and cooperation, power and the politics of regional integration as well as the nexus between conflict resolution, state failure and regional integration.
Muslim Cosmopolitanism
| Author | : Khairudin Aljunied |
| Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
| Total Pages | : 240 |
| Release | : 2016-12-05 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1474408907 |
Cosmopolitan ideals and pluralist tendencies have been employed creatively and adapted carefully by Muslim individuals, societies and institutions in modern Southeast Asia to produce the necessary contexts for mutual tolerance and shared respect between and within different groups in society. Organised around six key themes that interweave the connected histories of three countries in Southeast Asia - Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia - this book shows the ways in which historical actors have promoted better understanding between Muslims and non-Muslims in the region. Case studies from across these countries of the Malay world take in the rise of the network society in the region in the 1970s up until the early 21st century, providing a panoramic view of Muslim cosmopolitan practices, outlook and visions in the region.
China’s Youth Cultures and Collective Spaces
| Author | : Vanessa Frangville |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 431 |
| Release | : 2019-09-10 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0429509030 |
Presenting the collaborative work of 13 international specialists of contemporary Chinese culture and society, this book explores the spaces of creation, production, and diffusion of "youth cultures" in China among generations born since the 1980s. Defining the concept of "youth culture" as practices and activities that catalyze self-expression and creativity, this book investigates the emergence of new physical spaces, including large avenues, parks, shopping malls, and recreation areas. Building on this, it also examines the influence of non-physical places, especially digital cultures, such as online social networks, shopping platforms, Cosplay, cyberliterature, and digital calligraphy and argues that these may in fact play a more significant role in Chinese civil society today. As an exploration of how youth can be creative even in a coercive environment, China’s Youth Cultures and Collective Spaces will be valuable to students and scholars of Chinese society, as well those working on the links between space, youth, and culture.
Patriarchy in East Asia
| Author | : Kaku Sechiyama |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 345 |
| Release | : 2013-03-27 |
| Genre | : Family & Relationships |
| ISBN | : 9004247777 |
The role and significance of patriarchy in East Asia varies greatly according to the interplay between deeply entrenched cultural norms, economic change, and government policy. The aim of this book, therefore, is to offer an historical perspective on these issues combined with an analysis of the transitions and outcomes that have occurred in the status of women over the course of modernization and industrialization in five East Asian societies – Japan, South Korea, North Korea, Taiwan, and China. The narrative is interwoven with a discussion of contemporary issues such as the persistence of tradition and gender discrimination, how gender roles undermine the development of healthier marriage and family relationships (and better relations among the generations), the lack of full equality for women in employment, falling birth rates, and rising divorce rates. Patriarchy in East Asia is the first study of its kind undertaken by a sociologist who is fluent in all of the local languages, thereby providing a rare level of access in terms of research of primary sources.
Civil Society and the State in Democratic East Asia
| Author | : David Chiavacci |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2020 |
| Genre | : Protest movements |
| ISBN | : 9789463723930 |
Civil Society and the State in Democratic East Asia: Between Entanglement and Contention in Post High Growth focuses on the new and diversifying interactions between civil society and the state in contemporary East Asia by including cases of entanglement and contention in the three fully consolidated democracies in the area: Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. The contributions to this book argue that all three countries have reached a new era of post high growth and mature democracy, leading to new social anxieties and increasing normative diversity, which have direct repercussions on the relationship between the state and civil society. It introduces a comparative perspective in identifying and discussing similarities and differences in East Asia based on in-depth case studies in the fields of environmental issues, national identities as well as neoliberalism and social inclusion that go beyond the classic dichotomy of state vs 'liberal' civil society.
What Holds Asian Societies Together?
| Author | : Bertelsmann Stiftung |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2018 |
| Genre | : Group identity |
| ISBN | : 9783867937702 |
The study provides an analysis and review of social cohesion in 22 Asian countries in a comparative perspective. It presents a valid and reliable measurement of current and past levels of social cohesion and explores its most important determinants and outcomes. As an extension of the Social Cohesion Radar series the study will be of interest and value to policy makers, academics, think tanks and civil society organizations.
The East Asian Challenge for Democracy
| Author | : Daniel A. Bell |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 417 |
| Release | : 2013-08-12 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1107470978 |
The rise of China, along with problems of governance in democratic countries, has reinvigorated the theory of political meritocracy. But what is the theory of political meritocracy and how can it set standards for evaluating political progress (and regress)? To help answer these questions, this volume gathers a series of commissioned research papers from an interdisciplinary group of leading philosophers, historians and social scientists. The result is the first book in decades to examine the rise (or revival) of political meritocracy and what it will mean for political developments in China and the rest of the world. Despite its limitations, meritocracy has contributed much to human flourishing in East Asia and beyond and will continue to do so in the future. This book is essential reading for those who wish to further the debate and perhaps even help to implement desirable forms of political change.
