Parliaments in Asia (eBook, ePUB)

Institution Building and Political Development
Redaktion: Yongnian, Zheng; Hofmeister, Wilhelm; Liang Fook, Lye

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Much writing on politics in Asia has been devoted to the discussion of democracy and democratisation generally, or on political parties. This book, on the other hand, focuses on parliaments, considering, for key countries of East, Southeast and South Asia, a wide range of questions, such as How representative are parliaments?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134469727
• Artikelnr.: 39937675

Autorenporträt

Zheng Yongnian is Professor and Director of East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore. Lye Liang Fook is a Research Fellow at the East Asia Institute, National University of Singapore. Wilhelm Hofmeister is the Director of the Konrad Adenhauer Foundation's Political Dialogue with Asia Program, based in Singapore.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Parliaments in Asia: Institutional building and political
development 2. Parliaments in East Asia: Between Democracy and "Asian"
characteristics? 3. The Singapore Parliament: Representation,
effectiveness, and control 4. The Role of the People's Congress System in
China's Politics 5. Vietnam's National Assembly's Institutionalization and
Transformed Functions 6. The Thai Parliament: A weak cornerstone in the
building of democracy 7. The Path toward a more Substantial Democracy?
Lessons and challenges of Indonesia's parliament during Reformasi era 8.
Parliamentary Politics Vis-à-vis Judicial Strategies: Promoting
reproductive health in a catholic country 9. Parliamentary Reform and Good
Governance: Theoretical basis and the relationship between the government
and the parliament in Japan 10. The National Assembly in Democratized
Korea: Marching to the center from the margins of policy stage? 11.
Renewing India: Democratic accountability and parliament 12. Election
without Representation: Hong Kong legislative council and its implications
to non-liberal regimes 13. Democratic Representation in Taiwan's
Parliament: Evolution of constituency service from SNTV to single member
district electoral system