Journal of East Asian Studies articles

Recent articles from Journal of East Asian Studies

Japanese Lower House campaigns in transition: manifest changes or fleeting fads?
January 1, 2009... Electioneering for the Japanese Lower House has undergone significant changes in recent years. While voter mobilization strategies still figure prominently in the local-level campaigns of individual candidates, political parties increasingly use voter-chasing strategies at the national level....

Democratization and government education provision in East Asia.(Report)
May 1, 2008... Although it is commonly believed that democracy promotes public services such as education, efforts have just started to evaluate empirically how the recent trend of democratization affects education services in the developing world. This article reports on the first regionwide investigation...

The origins of regional autonomy in Indonesia: experts and the marketing of political interests.(Essay)
May 1, 2008... This article argues that, in contrast with prevalent choice-theoretic accounts of institutional origins in new democracies, the passage of Indonesia's regional autonomy laws in 1999 took place despite the interests of powerful political actors rather than because of them. Lacking the past...

Interest groups in North Korean politics.(Essay)
May 1, 2008... North Korea is often characterized as some form of highly centralized rule: totalitarian, posttotalitarian, corporatist, or personalistic. This article argues that much of the confusion around understanding North Korea's actions stems from misplaced models. Much of the current thinking on...

Assessing North Korean nuclear intentions and capacities: a new approach.(Essay)
May 1, 2008... This article develops a novel assessment of the nuclear program of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Using a theory-driven approach rooted in comparative foreign policy analysis, the article undermines two common assumptions about the DPRK nuclear threat: first, that the North Korean...