Legitimacy : ambiguities of political success or failure in East and Southeast Asia / edited by Lynn White.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

White, Lynn T., III, 1941-

Series:

Series on contemporary China ; v. 1.

Series on contemporary China ; vol. 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Legitimacy of governments--East Asia.

Legitimacy of governments.

Legitimacy of governments--Southeast Asia.

Legitimacy of governments--China.

Legitimacy of governments--Japan.

Legitimacy of governments--Korea (South).

Legitimacy of governments--Malaysia.

China--Politics and government--2002-.

China.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (329 p.)

Place of Publication:

New Jersey ; Hong Kong : World Scientific, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book documents the bases for a new view of legitimacy in general and in various parts of Asia, including China, Malaysia, South Korea, Taiwan and Japan. The authors see legitimacy anywhere as always partial, rather than total, and somewhat measurable.

Contents:

Contents; List of Contributors; Introduction - Dimensions of Legitimacy Lynn White; 1) Political Legitimacy in Malaysia: Regime Performance in the Asian Context Bruce Gilley; 2) The Basis of Political Legitimacy in Late-Authoritarian Taiwan David Dahua Yang; 3) Political Trust in China: Forms and Causes Zhengxu Wang; 4) Nationalism and the Problem of Political Legitimacy in China Jungmin Seo; 5) Political Legitimacy in Reform China: Between Economic Performance and Democratization Yongnian Zheng and Liang Fook Lye

6) Legitimating Rhetorics and Factual Economies in a South Korean Development Dispute Robert Oppenheim7) Policy Legitimacy as a Determinant of Policy Outputs: Japan's Case Takayuki Sakamoto; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786611881016

9781281881014

1281881015

9789812569349

9812569340

OCLC:

475976106