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9780521645386

Informal Politics in East Asia

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  • ISBN13:

    9780521645386

  • ISBN10:

    0521645387

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2000-06-19
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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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

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