The Political Systems of East Asia

An Introduction
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-3-658-42950-8
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 500 Seiten, Format (B × H): 168 mm x 240 mm

This textbook presents a comprehensive overview of the political systems of East Asia in its expanded and updated 4th edition. Readers will find chapters on the People's Republic of China, Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, Japan, and South and North Korea. The introduction focuses on institutional and societal change in the individual systems, drawing on social science theories and also undertaking a comparative analysis. The book is thus an indispensable volume for an in-depth understanding of the processes of change in a dynamic world region.

Zielgruppe

Upper undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Derichs, Claudia

Heberer, Thomas

Schubert, Gunter

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Fundamentals of comparative social science in regional studies (area studies).- The political system of the PRC.- The political system of Hong Kong.- The political system of Macau.- The political system of Taiwan.- The political system of Japan.- The political system of South Korea .- The political system of North Korea.- The political systems of East Asia compared.

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. Claudia Derichs is Professor of Transregional Southeast Asian Studies at the Institute of Asian and African Studies at Humboldt University in Berlin.

Dr. Thomas Heberer is Senior Professor of Politics and Society of China at the Institute of East Asian Studies at the University of Duisburg-Essen. 

Dr. Gunter Schubert is Professor of Greater China Studies at the Asia-Orient Institute, Department of Sinology, Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen.