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Author_John E. Endicott
Author_William R. Heaton
authoritarian regimes
Blue House Raid
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CCP
CCP Central Committee
CCP Congress
CCP Leadership
CCP Member
CCP Membership
Central Government
Chou En-lai
comparative government
Defense Production Committee
democratization processes
Diet Members
East Asian political systems comparison
East Asian politics
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Grand Bench
Ho Chi Minh
Japan's 1976 elections
JCP
Keizai Doyukai
Kim Il Sung
Lockheed Scandal
National People's Congress
National People’s Congress
Park Chung Hee
party bureaucracy dynamics
Petty Bench
PLA Unit
political culture analysis
political institutions East Asia
post-Mao period
quasi-dictatorial regime
radical ideologies
Soka Gakkai
Supreme People's Assembly
Supreme People’s Assembly
USS Pueblo
West Germany
Product details
- ISBN 9780367295103
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 148 x 237mm
- Publication Date: 28 Apr 2020
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This is the first undergraduate text on the politics of East Asia to be published since 1970. Looking at both domestic and international politics, the authors discuss the political systems of China, Japan, and Korea within the context of environmental factors, culture, society, the economy, geography, language, historical and political traditions, etc. The People’s Republic of China is presented as a country with strong traditions, committed to rapid development under frequently changing ideological auspices. Its two governmental apparatuses—the party and the bureaucracy—sometimes act in unison, sometimes are locked in fierce struggles, and often are motivated by differing ideologies and administrative dynamics. Japan is seen as a mature society and a developed economy with functioning democratic institutions and a strong party system, but, like the PRC, subject to powerful traditions and influenced by radical ideologies. Both North and South Korea are discussed, with a comparison and contrast of the authoritarian-democratic system in the South, where a basically democratic parliament finds itself in conflict with a quasi-dictatorial regime and an all-powerful president. The book is completely up to date. The section on China takes into account the major developments of the post-Mao period, including the accession of Hua Kuo-feng and the struggle against the Shanghai faction. The discussion of Japanese politics covers the 1976 elections, and the creation of the Shin Jiyu club in the developing thrust away from factional politics to an issue-oriented electorate.
"Lt. Col. John E. Endicott is a member of the Pentagon Air Staff. He received a Ph.D. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.
Capt. William R. Heaton holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. He is currently a research fellow at the National Defense University. Both authors were formerly professors of political science at the U.S. Air Force Academy."
