- Corruption by Design
- Melanie Manion
- This book contrasts experiences of mainland China and Hong Kong to explore the pressing question of how governments can transform a culture of widespread corruption to one of clean government. Manion examines Hong Kong as the best example of the possibility of reform. Within a few years it achieved a spectacularly successful conversion to clean government. Mainland China illustrates the difficulty of reform. Despite more than two decades of anticorruption reform, corruption in China continues to spread essentially unabated.
- Hardcover 2004
- Inklings of Democracy in China
- Suzanne Ogden
- Since 1979 China's leaders have introduced reforms that have lessened the state's hold over the lives of ordinary citizens. By examining the growth in individual rights, the public sphere, democratic processes, and pluralization, Ogden seeks to answer questions concerning the relevance of liberal democratic ideas for China and the relationship between a democratic political culture and a democratic political system.
- Paperback 2002 / Hardcover 2002
- The Origins of the Developmental State in Taiwan
- J. Megan Greene
- The rapid growth of Taiwan’s postwar “miracle” economy is most frequently credited to the leading role of the state in promoting economic development. Megan Greene challenges this standard interpretation in the first in-depth examination of the origins of Taiwan’s developmental state.
- Hardcover 2008
- Policymaking in Latin America
- Edited by Ernesto Stein
- Edited by Mariano Tommasi
- Edited by Carlos Scartascini
- Edited by Pablo Spiller
- What determines the capacity of countries to design, approve, and implement effective public policies? To address this issue, this book builds on the results of a comparative study of political institutions, policymaking processes, and policy outcomes in eight Latin American countries. The volume benefits from both micro detail on the intricacies of policymaking in individual countries and a broad cross-country interdisciplinary analysis of the process in the region.
- Paperback 2008
- Racism, Xenophobia, and Distribution
- John E. Roemer
- Woojin Lee
- Karine Van der Straeten
- From the Republican Party's "Southern Strategy" in the U.S. to the rise of Le Pen's National Front in France, conservative politicians in the last thirty years have capitalized on voters' resentment of ethnic minorities to win votes and undermine government aid to the poor. Combining historical analysis and empirical rigor with major theoretical advances, the authors of this book construct a theoretical model to calculate the effect of voters' attitudes about race and immigration on political parties' stances on income distribution.
- Hardcover 2007
- Rethinking the 1898 Reform Period
- Rebecca E. Karl, Editor
- Peter Zarrow, Editor
- The nine essays in this volume reexamine the "hundred days" in 1898 and focus particularly on the aftermath of this reform movement. Their collective goal is to rethink the reforms not as a failed attempt at modernizing China but as a period in which many of the institutions that have since structured China began.
- Hardcover 2002