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Routledge Handbook of Asian Parliaments book cover

1st Edition

Routledge Handbook of Asian Parliaments

Edited By Po Jen Yap, Rehan Abeyratne Copyright 2023
436 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

436 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

436 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This handbook showcases the rich varieties of legislatures that exist in Asia and explains how political power is constituted in 17 jurisdictions in East, Southeast and South Asia. Legislatures in Asia come in all stripes. Liberal democracies co-exist cheek by jowl with autocracies; semi-democratic and competitive authoritarian systems abound. While all legislatures exist to make law and confer... Read more
    1. Parliaments in Asia: Introduction

      2. Po Jen Yap and Rehan Abeyratne

      Part I: Thematic Chapters

    2. Communist Regimes

      3. Po Jen Yap and Chen Yu-Jie

    3. Liberal Democracies

      4. Chien-Chih Lin

    4. Dominant Party Democracies

      5. Po Jen Yap and Marcus Teo

    5. Turbulent Democracies

      6. Rehan Abeyratne

    6. Presidential Democracies

      7. Björn Dressel and Fakhridho Susilo

      Part II: Jurisdiction Chapters

    7. The Parliament (Jatiya Sangsad) of Bangladesh

      8. M Jashim Ali Chowdhury

    8. The National Assembly and Senate of the Kingdom of Cambodia

      9. Benjamin Lawrence

    9. The National People’s Congress in China

      10. Sun Ying

    10. The Legislative Council of Hong Kong

      11. Eric Chan

    11. The Parliament and State Legislatures of India

      12. M Mohsin Alam Bhat

    12. The Legislatures of Indonesia

      13. Simon Butt and Tim Lindsey

    13. The Japanese Diet

      14. Shigenori Matsui

    14. The Parliament of Malaysia

      15. Wong Chin Huat

    15. The Legislature (Pyidaungsu Hluttaw) of Myanmar

      16. Richard Roewer and Han Htoo Khant Paing

    16. The Parliament of Pakistan

      17. Mariam Mufti

      　

    17. The Congress of the Philippines

      18. Bryan Dennis G Tiojanco and Ronald Ray K San Juan

    18. The Parliament of Singapore

      19. Eugene KB Tan

    19. The National Assembly of the Republic of Korea

      20. Sang-Un Park

    20. The Parliament of Sri Lanka

      21. Dinesha Samararatne

    21. The Legislative Yuan of Taiwan

      22. Yen-Tu Su

    22. The Legislative Assembly of Thailand

      23. Khemthong Tonsakulrungruang and Aua-aree Engchanil

    23. The National Assembly of Vietnam

      Ngoc Son Bui

Biography

Po Jen Yap is a Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Hong Kong, where he specialises in Constitutional and Administrative Law.

Rehan Abeyratne is an Associate Professor of Law at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, where he specialises in constitutional law and comparative constitutionalism.

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