September 2014
The Nature of Asian Politics is a broad and thematic
treatment of the fundamental factors that characterize politics in the
fourteen key countries of Southeast and Northeast Asia. Bruce Gilley
begins with an overview of state-society relations, then moves on to the
fundamental questions of development and democracy, and finally shifts
to an exploration of governance and public policy in the region. This
book proposes an Asian governance model that is useful for understanding
politics from Japan to Indonesia. By reviving an earlier paradigm known
as oriental despotism and applying it to political theories on the
Asian region, this book is likely to attract wide debate among students
of Asian politics and among Western policy makers seeking to engage the
region.- Provides a comprehensive look at the politics of fourteen key countries in Northeast and Southeast Asia
- Structured thematically with chapters on state and society, development, democracy, governance, and public policy
- Provides context for the rise of China
Contents
Introduction
1. Profit and Honor
Reclaiming the Far
East
The Asian Governance
Model
2. State and Society
The State of Pardons
Refined Oriental
Despotism
Money, Colonialism,
War, and Water
The Legitimacy
Premium
Hegel and Asian
Values
Integrative
Nationalism
3. Development
The Spinning Kingdom
An Inputs Miracle
Growth Alliances and
Regimes
The Rational State
Contentious
Development Politics
Recovering from
Failures
4. Democracy
New Orders in Old
Bottles
Oriental Democracy
Markets and
Modernization
Responsive
Transitions
Consolidation without
Kings
The Rights of the
Majority
The House of
Aspirations
Rethinking the Lee
Hypothesis
The China Wave
5. Governance
Shepherds of the
People
Macho Meritocracy
CEO Government
The Tokyo Consensus
Judge Pao and the
Dual State
Harmonious Networks
6. Public Policy
Big, Fast Results
Productivist Welfare
The Giri
of Public Works
Knowledge for Nature
Toward Eastphalia?
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