Informal

Informal Politics in East Asia

By - Lowell Dittmer, Haruhiro Fukui, Peter N.S. Lee[ED]
Floor - Floor 1
Published - Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
ISBN 10 - 0521645387
ISBN 13 - 9780521645386
Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.
Subject - Political culture--East Asia.
Shelf No - 14
Call Number - 306.2095 INF
Physical Description - ix, 330 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Notes - Includes bibliographical references and index.
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The authors of Informal Politics in East Asia, first published in 2000, argue that political interaction within the informal dimension (behind-the-scenes politics) is at least as common and influential, though not always as transparent or coherent, as formal politics, and that this understudied category of social interaction merits more serious and methodical attention from social scientists. This book is a pioneering effort to delineate the various forms of informal politics within different East Asian political cultures and to develop some common theoretical principles for understanding how they work. Featured here are contributions by political scientists specializing in the regions of China, Taiwan, Japan, the Korean peninsula, and Vietnam. The authors apply to this dynamic region the classic core questions of politics: who gets what, when, how, and at whose expense?

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