Journal of East Asian Studies articles from May 2007

Journal of East Asian Studies archives from May 2007

Introduction: parties, party choice, and partisanship in East Asia.
May 1, 2007... Political parties are widely seen as "a sine qua non for the organization of the modern democratic polity and for the expression of political pluralism." (1) The manner in which parties articulate political interests largely defines the nature...

Electoral systems and party systems in East Asia.
May 1, 2007... Over the past two decades, numerous East Asian states have undergone transitions to democracy. One of the most distinctive aspects of democratization has been the way East Asian democracies have sought to manage political change by...

The patterns of party polarization in East Asia.
May 1, 2007... The alignment of parties within a party system shapes the nature of electoral competition, the process of representation, and potentially the legitimacy of the system. This article describes the distribution of parties and the levels of party...

Social structure and party support in the East Asian democracies.
May 1, 2007... A stable and effective party system depends on consistent and enduring support from social groups. Using the Lipset-Rokkan paradigm as a point of departure, this article tests the relationship between social structure and party support in four...

Value cleavages, issues, and partisanship in East Asia.
May 1, 2007... This article examines how the social transformation in many East Asian democracies is altering the value priorities of their publics, and how these values are affecting party choice. Our analyses are based on the newest wave of the World Values...

Partisanship in East Asia.
May 1, 2007... This article compares partisanship across East Asian nations, with four indicators reflecting different dimensions of the concept. Across these indicators, partisanship in East Asian nations was found to be relatively weak compared with most...

Partisanship and citizen politics in East Asia.
May 1, 2007... This article assesses the relative importance of partisanship in explaining level of citizens' political engagement within a multivariate framework. In particular, we examine if the relative worth of partisan attachment in explaining civic...

Partisanship and democratization.
May 1, 2007... How do attachments to political parties among the mass publics of East Asia affect the process of democratization in the region? Analyses of the East Asia Barometer surveys reveal that partisanship motivates East Asians to endorse the...

Contested Governance in Japan: Sites and Issues.(Book review)
May 1, 2007... Contested Governance in Japan: Sites and Issues. Edited by Glenn D. Hook. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2005. 263 pp. $115.00 (cloth); $38.95 (paper). Governance is currently one of the symbolic and key terms in the social science field as well...

Globalisation and Economic Security in East Asia: Governance and Institutions.(Book review)
May 1, 2007... Globalisation and Economic Security in East Asia: Governance and Institutions. Edited by Helen E. S. Nesadurai. New York: Routledge, 2006. 262 pp. $115.00 (cloth). This book explores the struggles of East Asian developing countries with...

China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia.(Book review)
May 1, 2007... China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia. By Peter C. Perdue. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005. 725 pp. $35.00 (cloth). Historical knowledge about Central Eurasia in the English-speaking world has...

The GI War Against Japan: American Soldiers in Asia and the Pacific During World War II.(Book review)
May 1, 2007... The GI War Against Japan: American Soldiers in Asia and the Pacific During World War II. By Peter Schrijvers. New York: New York University Press, 2002. 320 pp. $22.00 (paper). Peter Schrijvers's study of the experiences of US servicemen...

The Lost Wolves of Japan.(Book review)
May 1, 2007... The Lost Wolves of Japan. By Brett L. Walker. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2005. 331 pp. $35.00 (cloth). Brett Walker may be the only true environmental historian among Japanologists publishing in English. Unlike other scholars...