Journal of East Asian Studies articles from May 2006

Journal of East Asian Studies archives from May 2006

Multiple principals and collective action: China's Rural Credit Cooperatives and poor households' access to credit.
May 1, 2006... Ample empirical evidence suggests that Rural Credit Cooperatives (RCCs), which are the core credit institutions in rural China, are not accountable to their member households. This article argues that this conundrum can be explained by an...

Corporate unionism and labor market flexibility in South Korea.
May 1, 2006... There is significant variance in the strategies of labor market flexibility under the same pressure of globalization. This article attempts to explain that variance by examining closely the Korean case, with particular attention to the response...

Electoral reform and the costs of personal support in Japan.
May 1, 2006... How does the choice of electoral rules affect politicians' incentives to campaign on the basis of personalized support? This article examines to what extent the adoption of new electoral and campaign finance rules affects the incentive of...

Signaling democracy: patron-client relations and democratization in South Korea and Poland.
May 1, 2006... Facing massive protests, why did incumbent regimes in both South Korea and Poland repress movements for democratization in the early 1980s but make democratic concessions to the opposition in the late 1980s? I demonstrate how the United States...

China's rise, Asia's future.(Asian Security Order: Instrumental and Normative Features )(China's New Nationalism: Pride, Politics and Diplomacy )(The International Relations of Northeast Asia)(Construction Within Contradiction: Multiple Perspectives on the Relationship Between China and International Organizations )(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Muthiah Alagappa, ed., Asian Security Order: Instrumental and Normative Features (Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2003). Peter Gries, China's New Nationalism: Pride, Politics and Diplomacy (Berkeley: University of California Press,...

Civil Society in Japan: The Growing Role of NGOs in Tokyo's Aid Development Policy.(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Civil Society in Japan: The Growing Role of NGOs in Tokyo's Aid Development Policy. By Keiko Hirata. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. 208 pp. $69.95. Cloth. Four periods characterize the development of Japanese civil society: the Taisho...

The Rise and Fall of the East Asian Growth System, 1951-2000: Institutional Competitiveness and Rapid Economic Growth.(Book review)
May 1, 2006... The Rise and Fall of the East Asian Growth System, 1951-2000: Institutional Competitiveness and Rapid Economic Growth. By Xiaoming Huang. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2005. 279 pp. $135. Cloth. Over the past quarter century, East Asia has been...

Bare Branches: The Security Implications of Asia's Surplus Male Population.(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Bare Branches: The Security Implications of Asia's Surplus Male Population. By Valerie M. Hudson and Andrea M. den Boer. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2004. 329 pp. $37. Cloth. The field of political demography is relatively small but rich in...

The State of Civil Society in Japan.(Book review)
May 1, 2006... The State of Civil Society in Japan. Edited by Frank J. Schwartz and Susan J. Pharr. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 392 pp. $70. Cloth. This book intends to contribute to two aims: to enrich the concept of civil society...

Xinjiang: China's Muslim Borderland.(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Xinjiang: China's Muslim Borderland. Edited by S. Frederick Starr. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2004. 484 pp. $89.95, cloth; $32.95, paper. This book is the product of a concerted effort, begun in 1998 or earlier, to generate a broad,...