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  • Crisis Governance in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia

    The Study of Floods in 2014

    by Nicolas Hayoz, Jens Herlth, Julia Richers ...
    Series Book 17 - Interdisciplinary Studies on Central and Eastern Europe
    This comparative study at hand has been the result of a two-year research project on floods in 2014 in the Western Balkans engaging eight research teams from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Croatia. Representing quite different disciplines, the authors of this volume have analysed diverse aspects of the crisis governance and its ramifications. This publication’s goals are twofold. Firstly, it ... Read more

    $92.99 USD

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  • China's Gilded Age

    The Paradox of Economic Boom and Vast Corruption

    by Yuen Yuen Ang ...
    Why has China grown so fast for so long despite vast corruption? In China's Gilded Age, Yuen Yuen Ang maintains that all corruption is harmful, but not all types of corruption hurt growth. Ang unbundles corruption into four varieties: petty theft, grand theft, speed money, and access money. While the first three types impede growth, access money - elite exchanges of power and profit - cuts both ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Fractured China

    How State Transformation Is Shaping China's Rise

    by Lee Jones, Shahar Hameiri ...
    Is China's rise a threat to international order? Fractured China shows that it depends on what one means by 'China', for China is not the monolithic, unitary actor that many assume. Forty years of state transformation – the fragmentation, decentralisation and internationalisation of party-state apparatuses – have profoundly changed how its foreign policy is made and implemented. Today, Chinese ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Policing in Taiwan

    From authoritarianism to democracy

    by Liqun Cao, Lanying Huang, Ivan Y. Sun ...
    Series series Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice
    The police in Taiwan played a critical role in the largely peaceful transition from an authoritarian regime to a democracy. While the temptation to intervene in domestic politics was great, the top-down pressure to maintain a neutral standing facilitated an orderly regime change. This is the first monograph to examine the role of the police as a linkage between the state and civil society during ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Empowered Educators in China

    How High-Performing Systems Shape Teaching Quality

    by Mistilina Sato ...
    BEST PRACTICES FROM CHINA'S HIGH-PERFORMING SCHOOL SYSTEMEmpowered Educators in China is one volume in a series that explores how high-performing educational systems from around the world achieve strong results. The anchor book, Empowered Educators: How High-Performing Systems Shape Teaching Quality Around the World, is written by Linda Darling-Hammond and colleagues, with contributions from the ... Read more

    $26.00 USD

  • China's Economic Zones: Design, Implementation and Impact

    by Tao Yitao, Lu Zhiguo ...
    A thorough examination of the establishment and development of Chinas Special Economic Zones (SEZ). These eight SEZs marked a major milestone in China's gradual market-oriented reform process, and the developmental fluctuations of these zones offers an in-depth understanding of the complexities and difficulties of reform. They also provide critical insight into Chinas thirty years of economic and ... Read more

    $74.19 USD

  • Media and Protest Logics in the Digital Era

    The Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong

    by Francis L.F. Lee, Joseph M. Chan ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Digital Politics
    Digital and social media are increasingly integrated into the dynamics of protest movements around the world. They strengthen the mobilization power of movements, extend movement networks, facilitate new modes of protest participation, and give rise to new protest formations. Meanwhile, conventional media remains an important arena where protesters and their targets contest for public support. ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • The Emergence of a New Urban China

    Insiders' Perspectives

    Edited by Zai Liang, Steven Messner, Cheng Chen, Youqin Huang ...
    This book provides first-hand, insiders’ perspectives on urban issues in China, aiming to provide a theoretically informed and empirically rich discussion of the new social landscape of urban China in the 21st century. The research reported encompasses both quantitative and qualitative methodologies, with the latter based on extensive and in-depth fieldwork. The authors, most of them being native ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

  • Assessing the Presidency of Ma Ying-jiu in Taiwan

    Hopeful Beginning, Hopeless End?

    Edited by André Beckershoff, Gunter Schubert ...
    Series series Routledge Research on Taiwan Series
    The years of the Ma Ying-jiu presidency in Taiwan were controversial from the beginning. When he came to power in 2008, Ma was considered the strongest and most popular KMT presidential candidate since Lee Teng-hui. However, his rapprochement towards China met with increasing resistance and by the time he stepped down in 2016, he enjoyed the lowest support rates of any incumbent president. What ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Higher Education in Korea

    Tradition and Adaptation

    by Namgi Park, John Weidman ...
    Series series RoutledgeFalmer Studies in Higher Education
    This definitive collection takes an in-depth look at the higher education system in Korea. The editors and contributors present a fundamentally Korean view of the important issues for the Korean higher education system. In systematic, well written essays, they construct theoretical perspectives to analyze the development of the higher education system in Korea's competitive society, a project ... Read more

    $225.00 USD

  • Democratic Governance in Taiwan

    Edited by John Fuh-sheng Hsieh, Robert Cox ...
    Series series Routledge Studies on Comparative Asian Politics
    This book employs a policy-based approach to examine the emerging governance structure in Taiwan, one of several countries in East Asia where democratic consolidation is firmly established.Each chapter provides a detailed investigation of reforms that have helped to strengthen Taiwan’s democracy in such areas as elections, civil service recruitment, economic policy, social policy, environmental ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Immigrant Incorporation in East Asian Democracies

    by Erin Aeran Chung ...
    Despite labour shortages and rapidly shrinking working-age populations, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan shared restrictive immigration policies and exclusionary practices toward immigrants until the early 2000s. While Taiwan maintained this trajectory, Japan took incremental steps to expand immigrant services at the grassroots level, and South Korea enacted sweeping immigration reforms. How did ... Read more

    $38.59 USD