State Capacity in East Asia examines states and state capacity in four countries - China, Japan, Taiwan, and Vietnam - that have experienced rapid economic grow

Comparative analysis of case studies across East Asia provides new insights into the relationship between state building, stateness, and democracy.

The book analyses and evaluates the development role and impact of the state in East Asia, in both capitalist (South Korea and Taiwan) and socialist (China) con

The Nature of Asian Politics is a broad and thematic treatment of the fundamental factors that characterize politics in the fourteen key countries of Southeast

This report states that the future of East Asian countries depends on the capacity and performance of local and provincial governments. Decentralization has unl