Informal Politics in East Asia

by Edited by Lowell Dittmer , Haruhiro Fukui , Peter N. S. Lee

• ISBN13: 9780521642323
• ISBN10: 0521642329
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-06-19
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Contributors	xi
Introduction: On the Significance of Informal Politics	1	(20)
Haruhiro Fukui
PART I: Informal Politics in Industrialized Asian Democracies	21	(62)
The Informal Politics of Japanese Diet Elections: Cases and Interpretations	23	(19)
Haruhiro Fukui
Shigeko N. Fukai
Informal Politics in Taiwan	42	(24)
T. J. Cheng
T. C. Chou
The Election Process and Informal Politics in South Korea	66	(17)
Soohyun Chon
PART II: Dictatorship with Chinese Characteristics: Macroperspectives	83	(100)
Psychocultural Foundations of Informal Groups: The Issues of Loyalty, Sincerity, and Trust	85	(21)
Chung-Fang Yang
Informal Politics Among the Chinese Communist Party Elite	106	(35)
Lowell Dittmer
Formal Structures, Informal Politics, and Political Change in China	141	(24)
Joseph Fewsmith
The Informal Politics of Leadership Succession in Post-Mao China	165	(18)
Peter Nan-Shong Lee
PART III: Case Studies in Chinese Corporatism	183	(52)
Organizational Involution and Sociopolitical Reform in China: An Analysis of the Work Unit	185	(30)
Lowell Dittmer
Lu Xiaobo
Clientage in the PRC's National Defense Research and Development Sector	215	(20)
BenJamin C. Ostrov
PART IV: Asian Authoritatianism on the Chinese Periphery	235	(55)
North Korean Informal Politics	237	(32)
Samuel S. Kim
Informal Politics in Vietnam	269	(21)
Douglas Pike
Conclusion: East Asian Informal Politics in Comparative Perspective	290	(19)
Lowell Dittmer
Glossary	309	(6)
Index	315