Download or read book The Changing Shape of Government in the Asia Pacific Region written by John W. Langford and published by IRPP. This book was released on 1988 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The seminar for which the papers in this publication were prepared was the first in a series of workshops intended to link senior public policy researchers from around the Pacific Rim in order to open up channels of communication through which researchers from Asia Pacific nations can exchange views on problems and reforms in the area of governance and public sector management. Paper titles include: The Changing Shape of Government in the Asia-Pacific Region; Korean Politics in a Period of Transition; The Unfinished Political Reforms of the Hong Kong Government; Demi-democracy: Thai Politics and Government in Transition; Government and Governance in Multi-Racial Malaysia; Controlled Democracy, Political Stability and PAP Predominance: Government in Singapore; Entrenched "Strong Man" Rule: The Governmental System in Bangladesh; Australian National Government, 1987; Toward More Effective Government in the US; and, Some Issues of Governance in Canada.
Download or read book Think Tanks and Governance in the Asia Pacific Region written by John W. Langford and published by IRPP. This book was released on 1991 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Economic Policy making in the Asia Pacific Region written by Institute for Research on Public Policy and published by IRPP. This book was released on 1990 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These series of workshop papers are the second volume to be released by the Institute. The first was held in Victoria, 1987. This second one was co-hosted with the Thailand Development Research Institute (TDRC). A third one is scheduled for May 1990 in Kuala Lumpur. The workshop series is intended to link senior public policy researchers and practitioners from around the region. Papers presented address economic policy-making in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the Philippines, Japan, Thailand, South Korea, China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia.
Download or read book Asia Pacific Legal Development written by Gerry Ferguson and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This manuscript is a collection of essays on various issues in Asia-Pacific legal systems. It has been written within the framework of comparative legal research; thus, chapters address various of the ASEAN nations, as well as Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. The topics in this comprehensive volume, which offer Canadian perspectives on contemporary Asian law, include securities, prostitution, environmental, and constitutional law.
Download or read book Development in the Asia Pacific written by Jong S. Jun and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book East Asian Democratization written by Robert W. Compton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2000-09-30 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It may be tempting to view political development and democratization in East Asia from a global view and conclude that the contours of democracy will converge throughout the world. However, a close examination of the cultural and economic development of Asian societies suggests a contrary picture. The story of Asia is one of political and economic survival, in which political elites sought to legitimate their authority through the use of both traditional and modern symbols. Traditional communitarian values and the modern symbols of economic growth and materialism coexist in Asian political systems. The stability and legitimacy of Asian governments depend on the ability of political elites to balance these symbols. As globalization proceeds, the standard traditional and modern symbols have waned in their effectiveness. Therefore, democracy as a symbol and practice can provide new sources of legitimacy to these political systems. Compton's Asian political development model is tested with quantitative indicators and through a series of case studies. The three case studies—Japan, South Korea, and Thailand—build on each other through a rigorous historical comparison. While the case studies themselves are interesting, he makes connections to the model and tests the congruence of these cases to the model, and concludes that the model's validity is predicated on the internal environment, including culture and economy. Of particular interest to scholars, students, and researchers involved with comparative and Asian politics, political development, and political culture.
Download or read book Australia and the Pacific Islands written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Media in Hong Kong written by Carol P. Lai and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-03-12 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making full use of newly declassified material, extensive interviews and specific case studies, this book examines the Hong Kong media over a forty year period, focusing in particular on how its newspapers and TV stations have struggled for press freedom under the colonial British administration, as well as Chinese rule.
Download or read book Singapore Studies written by Beng Huat Chua and published by NUS Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition brings up to date a decade of research work developments of the Faculty of Arts and Social Science, National University of Singapore, since the first volume was published in 1985. The state of the respective disciplines covered are reviewed in terms of notable theoretical and conceptual developments, major benchmarks during the past decade, and research lacunae that need to be addressed, as well as their substantive developments and contributions in the Singapore context and possible future directions, resulting in a collection of essays that places the Faculty's studies in an international comparative framework.
Download or read book Pacific Ocean Boundary Problems written by Douglas M. Johnston and published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. This book was released on 1991 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nineteen ninety-two provided several painful reminders of the inherent hazards of oil tankers plying the high seas loaded with millions of gallons of crude oil. Within the space of a few days we witnessed a succession of catastrophic accidents: the foundering of the Greek A EGEAN SEA off the North-West coast of Spain, the breaking-up of the Liberian BRAER off the Shetland Islands, & the burning of the Danish-owned MAERSK NAVIGATOR near the entrance to the Indian Ocean's Malaccan Strait. Any one of these accidents could have been worse than the EXXON VALDEZ spill in Alaska in 1989, when 11 million gallons of crude oil leaked into Prince William Sound. This once again demonstrated the imperative need for an improved regime for the prevention of this kind of accident. The 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, which had been ratified by 54 states by the end of 1992, consolidates a number of novel provisions, one of which is port state enforcement for violations outside a state's jurisdiction. Port state control, as such, is a very old concept. It is based on the rule of international law, according to which a state exercises full jurisdictional powers within its internal waters & has the right to deny access to such waters. The 1982 Convention expands this jurisdiction & provides the port state with enforcement powers with respect to violations outside its national jurisdiction. Special emphasis is paid to the evolution of the port state enforcement regime; its formulation in the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea; advantages & disadvantages & finally the implementation of the enforcement provisions of relevant maritime conventions. This book also analyses flag state jurisdiction & the repercussions of the adoption of the 1986 Convention for Registration of Ships. Special emphasis is given to a regional European agreement, the 1982 Paris Memorandum of Understanding, which attempts to strengthen the implementation of the existing international legal standards that could serve as a model for a future port state regime.
Download or read book Handbook of Global Economic Policy written by Stuart Nagel and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-02-21 with total page 611 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by over 20 leading international economists, this book offers win-win scenarios to economic problems. As in the other volumes of this set of public policy handbooks, the Handbook of Global Economic Policy employs a unique organizational principle: from viewing economic problems from conservative and liberal perspectives, to developing practical, non-ideological solutions to the problems, and finally testing the solution's feasibility in terms of economic, administrative, political, psychological, legal, international, and technological obstacles. The authors confront conventional wisdom about tradeoffs between unemployment and inflation, economic growth and displaced workers, and c
Download or read book How East Asians View Democracy written by Yun-han Chu and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: East Asian democracies are in trouble, their legitimacy threatened by poor policy performance and undermined by nostalgia for the progrowth, soft-authoritarian regimes of the past. Yet citizens throughout the region value freedom, reject authoritarian alternatives, and believe in democracy. This book is the first to report the results of a large-scale survey-research project, the East Asian Barometer, in which eight research teams conducted national-sample surveys in five new democracies (Korea, Taiwan, the Philippines, Thailand, and Mongolia), one established democracy (Japan), and two nondemocracies (China and Hong Kong) in order to assess the prospects for democratic consolidation. The findings present a definitive account of the way in which East Asians understand their governments and their roles as citizens. Contributors use their expert local knowledge to analyze responses from a set of core questions, revealing both common patterns and national characteristics in citizens' views of democracy. They explore sources of divergence and convergence in attitudes within and across nations. The findings are sobering. Japanese citizens are disillusioned. The region's new democracies have yet to prove themselves, and citizens in authoritarian China assess their regime's democratic performance relatively favorably. The contributors to this volume contradict the claim that democratic governance is incompatible with East Asian cultures but counsel against complacency toward the fate of democracy in the region. While many forces affect democratic consolidation, popular attitudes are a crucial factor. This book shows how and why skepticism and frustration are the ruling sentiments among today's East Asians.
Download or read book Security in South East Asia and the South West Pacific written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1989 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Public Administration in the NICs written by Ahmed Shafiqul Huque and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The four dragons of Asia - Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan and South Korea - have achieved remarkable progress over the past decades. These newly industrialising countries (NICs) have emerged as major actors on the world economic scene. Their success can be attributed to a number of factors related to historical background, relationship with China, pattern of governance and performance of administrative, political and economic institutions. This book examines the role of public administration in the accomplishments of the NICs and identifies potential areas of challenge for the dragons.
Download or read book Security in South East Asia and the South West Pacific Challenges of the 1990 s written by International Peace Academy and published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. This book was released on 1988-12 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Green Dragons written by Michael J. Green and published by CSIS. This book was released on 2010 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Government Politics in Southeast Asia written by John Funston and published by Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. This book was released on 2001 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this substantial and referenced study, nine leading scholars present from inside the history, society, geography, economy and governmental institutions of each of the 10 ASEAN countries (Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam).
