[PDF] The Changing Shape Of Government In The Asia Pacific Region eBook

Author : John W. Langford
Publisher : IRPP
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 12,76 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780886450601

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The seminar for which the papers in this publication were prepared was the first in a series of workshops intended to link senior public policy researchers from around the Pacific Rim in order to open up channels of communication through which researchers from Asia Pacific nations can exchange views on problems and reforms in the area of governance and public sector management. Paper titles include: The Changing Shape of Government in the Asia-Pacific Region; Korean Politics in a Period of Transition; The Unfinished Political Reforms of the Hong Kong Government; Demi-democracy: Thai Politics and Government in Transition; Government and Governance in Multi-Racial Malaysia; Controlled Democracy, Political Stability and PAP Predominance: Government in Singapore; Entrenched "Strong Man" Rule: The Governmental System in Bangladesh; Australian National Government, 1987; Toward More Effective Government in the US; and, Some Issues of Governance in Canada.

Author : James William Morley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 14,82 MB
Release : 2015-04-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1317472799

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A thoroughly revised and updated edition of the highly regarded 1993 book "Driven by Growth", this work presents the political-economic evolution of the Asia-Pacific countries, with overviews of the impact of economic development on political change. This new edition now includes chapters on Burma and Vietnam. New authors have been added and all the original chapters have been revised.

Author : Robert G. Patman
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 50,51 MB
Release : 2021-11-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9811670072

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This book brings together a unique team of academics and practitioners to analyse interests, institutions, and issues affecting and affected by the transition from Asia-Pacific to Indo-Pacific. The Indo-Pacific has emerged as the world’s economic and strategic centre of gravity, in which established and rising powers compete with each other. As a strategic space, the Indo-Pacific reflects the rise of geo-political and geo-economic designs and dynamics which have come to shape the region in the early twenty-first century. These new dynamics contrast with the (neo-)liberal ideas and the seemingly increasing globalisation for which the once dominant ‘Asia-Pacific’ regional label stood.

Author : David Goldblatt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 42,36 MB
Release : 2005-06-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1134691351

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]IGovernance in the Asia-Pacific is a student-friendly textbook which examines the governance of nation states in this diverse and rapidly-changing region. It sets out the range of political beliefs and styles that flourish and the similarities and differences between individual states and the ways in which they choose to govern. Wide-ranging in scope and clearly written to help students get to the bottom of important issues, the book addresses many key areas including: * the Anglo-American powers * Japan * independence movements * the politics of economic development * social movements * the politics of the environment * the pressures for political change in the region. And these issues are all analysed within the broad context of governance in the Asia-Pacific more generally. The authors also identify factors which explain the political underpinning of the dramatic economic development in the region.

Author : Derek Da Cunha
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 32,3 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789813055490

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There has been too complacent a view that contends that the next century -- the so-called Pacific Century -- will see power essentially defined in an economic sense. This book questions that notion by examining the evolving structure of power in the Pacific. t takes the view that while economics will have an increased weight in the power equation, military strength will still be a defining feature. The essays in this volume provide crisp analyses of a balance of power, the notion of a security architecture, and regional defence dilemmas. They then examine the shifting roles of the four major Pacific powers, China, Japan, Russia and the United States, all of which will essentially shape the future of the Pacific in the next century.

Author : T. J. Pempel
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 26,74 MB
Release : 2021-09-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1501758829

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A Region of Regimes traces the relationship between politics and economics—power and prosperity—in the Asia-Pacific in the decades since the Second World War. This book complicates familiar and incomplete narratives of the "Asian economic miracle" to show radically different paths leading to high growth for many but abject failure for some. T. J. Pempel analyzes policies and data from ten East Asian countries, categorizing them into three distinct regime types, each historically contingent and the product of specific configurations of domestic institutions, socio-economic resources, and external support. Pempel identifies Japan, Korea, and Taiwan as developmental regimes, showing how each then diverged due to domestic and international forces. North Korea, Myanmar, and the Philippines (under Marcos) comprise "rapacious regimes" in this analysis, while Malaysia, Indonesia, and Thailand form "ersatz developmental regimes." Uniquely, China emerges as an evolving hybrid of all three regime types. A Region of Regimes concludes by showing how the shifting interactions of these regimes have profoundly shaped the Asia-Pacific region and the globe across the postwar era.

Author : Ben Reilly
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 42,97 MB
Release : 2007-12-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0199238707

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A study of the way in which the democratizing states of Asia and the Pacific have managed political change, with particular focus on innovative reforms to democratic institutions such as electoral systems, political parties and executive governments

Author : Michael S. Dobbs-Higginson
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 35,56 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Asia
ISBN : 9780749317973

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An insight into the political and economic future of Pacific Asia, an area currently undergoing violent changes. The author speculates as to how stability might be introduced into the region by an alliance between its countries, similar to the EC and NAFTA.

Author : Stefan Fröhlich
Publisher : Springer
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 25,52 MB
Release : 2017-11-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3658188944

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The topic of this book deals with a highly relevant empirical issue: East asian security and the dynamics of the respective governance structure or architecture are not only of regional but of global concern. Since the pivot of the American pivot to East Asia and other external actor ́s responses to it the security architecture has changed in form, size and function. In order to analyze and explain these changes, hypotheses derived from IR middle range theories (i.e. soft and hard balancing) will be applied to cases of bilateral and multilateral security governance in East Asia.

Author : Heng Chee Chan
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,25 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9813055758

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Focusing on the emergence of a new economic, political, and security order in the post-Cold War Asia-Pacific region, this book examines the sustainability of economic dynamism; the shape of regional groupings in the next decade; the relative shifts in the balance among the major powers; the new security architecture; and globalization, democratization, and human rights.