| Knowledge-Net for a Better World |
August 2020 |
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| [JEAS] Volume 20, Issue 2
Stephan Haggard, Editor
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| "The Second Issue of 2020 Has Been Released!" |
The current issue of the Journal of East Asian Studies leads with an outstanding book symposium that addresses the core issue in international politics at the moment: how to theorize China’s rise. [View article]
The rest of the volume provides our usual mix of international relations scholarship and work in comparative politics, much of it particularly topical. Paul Kenny and Ronald Holmes dissect democratic backsliding in the Philippines, using the case as an example of what they call the new “penal populism”. [View article]
Mathew Wong takes us to Hong Kong. Recent conflicts in the city have naturally focused attention on the cleavage between supporters of the mainland and those favoring a more democratic Hong Kong under the one-country, two-systems formula. [View article]
Tao Li makes a contribution by generating new data as well, estimating the vote counts of the secret elections held by the National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party from 1945 to 2017. The results confirm that a new political era has in fact dawned: both the number of dissenting votes and the voter preference diversity index plummeted by 2017. [View article]
Steve Pickering, Seiki Tanaka and Kyohei Yamada offer a methodologically interesting paper that uses remote sensing data to assess the impact of municipal mergers in Japan. They demonstrate that when rural and sparsely populated municipalities merge with more urban and densely populated municipalities, patterns of spending shift, and in some cases quite dramatically. Electoral boundaries have important effects on the provision of public goods. [View article]
Byunghwan Son looks at the conditions under which publics trust unions drawing on data from the Korean case. Those who are in general less trusting are more likely to view unions as rent-seeking organizations advancing their interests at the expense of the rest of society. The faith in unions among those who are more trusting, however, depends on whether unions are already represented by government; where they are, the Korean public tends to view them with greater suspicion. [View article]
Finally, Taisuke Fujita and Hiroki Kusano offer a nuanced qualitative design for explaining the timing of Japanese leaders visits to the controversial Yasukuni Shrine. Taking a necessary-conditions approach, they demonstrate the circumstances when such visits are more likely: under a conservative ruling party, and when that government is popular, but also when the government perceives a significant Chinese threat. [View article] |
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[JEAS Editor’s Pick] August 2020
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