Elections in Asia and the Pacific: A Data Handbook Volume 2: South East Asia, East Asia, and the Pacific

by Nohlen, Dieter; Grotz, Florian; Hartmann, Christof

• ISBN13: 9780199249596
• ISBN10: 0199249598
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-02-07
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This two-volume work continues the series of election data handbooks published by OUP. It presents a first-ever compendium of electoral data for all the 62 states in Asia, Australia and Oceania from their independence to the present. Following the overall structure of the series, an initialcomparative introduction on elections and electoral systems is followed by chapters on each state of the region. Written by knowledgeable and renowned scholars, the contributions examine the evolution of institutional and electoral arrangements, and provide systematic surveys of the up-to-dateelectoral provisions and their historical development. Exhaustive statistics on national elections and referendums are given in each chapter. Together with the other books of this series, Elections in Asia and the Pacific is a highly reliable resource for historical and cross-national comparisons ofelections and electoral systems world-wide. The second volume of Elections in Asia and the Pacific covers the Asia-Pacific area, i.e. the 30 independent states of East Asia (including Japan), South East Asia and the South Pacific (including Australia and New Zealand).

Table of Contents

Notes on Editors and Contributors	vii
Technical Notes	xiii
Elections and Electoral Systems in Asia. South East Asia, East Asia, and the South Pacific	1	(44)
Dieter Nohlen
Florian Grotz
Christof Hartmann
South East Asia	45	(298)
Brunei	47	(6)
Florian Grotz
Cambodia	53	(30)
Christof Hartmann
Indonesia	83	(46)
Jurgen Ruland
Laos	129	(14)
Christof Hartmann
Malaysia	143	(42)
Kevin YL Tan
Philippines	185	(54)
Christof Hartmann
Graham Hassall
Soliman M. Santos Jr.
Singapore	239	(22)
Hans Christoph Rieger
Thailand	261	(60)
Michael H. Nelson
Vietnam	321	(22)
Christof Hartmann
East Asia	343	(228)
China (People's Republic)	345	(10)
Xuewu Gu
Japan	355	(40)
Axel Klein
Korea (Democratic People's Republic/North Korea)	395	(16)
Mark B. Suh
Korea (Republic of Korea/ South Korea)	411	(70)
Aurel Croissant
Mongolia	481	(44)
Peter M. Gluchowski
Florian Grotz
Taiwan (Republic of China)	525	(46)
Marianne Rinza
South Pacific	571	(278)
Australia	573	(48)
Colin A. Hughes
Cook Islands	621	(12)
Graham Hassall
Federated States of Micronesia	633	(10)
Alexander Somoza
Fiji Islands	643	(30)
Christof Hartmann
Kiribati	673	(14)
Alexander Somoza
Marshall Islands	687	(10)
Philip Stover
Nauru	697	(8)
Benjamin Reilly
Maria Gratschew
New Zealand	705	(36)
Nigel S. Roberts
Palau	741	(22)
Donald R. Shuster
Papua New Guinea	763	(16)
Benjamin Reilly
Samoa	779	(16)
Asofou So'o
Solomon Islands	795	(14)
Jeffrey S. Steeves
Tonga	809	(14)
Ian C. Campbell
Tuvalu	823	(10)
Alexander Somoza
Vanuatu	833	(16)
Philip Stover
Glossary	849