This text explains political change and the shaping of political order in modern East Asian states: China, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, Taiwan, and Vietnam.
Examining the transformative role of power, authority, and political culture in the shaping of political order, this book:
- Describes the emergence of statist and pluralist political order in East Asia.
- Outlines the dual process of state-building and nation-building, revealing the transformative role of the state.
- Highlights the causes and consequences of the reversion to centralized political order, describing the structure and institutions of Cold War regimes in East Asian states.
- Explores the structural and institutional consequences of industrial development on politics and state in East Asian states.
- Discusses the methods and outcomes of the democratization movements in the 1980s and 1990s and public sector reforms in the 1990s and 2010s.
- Utilizes survey data and n
