1st Edition
Governance in the Asia-Pacific
328 Pages
by
Routledge
328 Pages
by
Routledge
320 Pages
by
Routledge
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]IGovernance in the Asia-Pacific is a student-friendly textbook which examines the governance of nation states in this diverse and rapidly-changing region. It sets out the range of political beliefs and styles that flourish and the similarities and differences between individual states and the ways in which they choose to govern. Wide-ranging in scope and clearly written to help students get to... Read more
1 State forms Part 1 State forms and political struggles 2 Red star over asia 3 Japanese State 4 Independence: state building in Southeast Asia 5 Politics in Anglo States Part 2 Politics and governance 6 Elite governance business, bureaucrats and the military 7 Challenging the political order: social movements 8 The political economy of Pacific Asia 9 Politics of welfare 10 Environmental issues and their governance Part 3 Riding the juggernaut: Political change 11 Sayonara to the strong state: from government to governance in the Asia-Pacific 12 Pressures for Change
Biography
David Goldblatt, Richard Maidment, Jeremy Mitchell
