ix, 330 pages : 24 cm

"This book is a pioneering effort to delineate the various forms of informal politics within different East Asian political cultures and to develop some common theoretical principles for understanding how they work. Featured here are contributions by political scientists specializing in the regions of China, Taiwan, Japan, the Korean peninsula, and Vietnam. The common thread across these political cultures is a Confucian legacy that emphasizes personal relationships and reciprocity. The authors apply to this dynamic region the classic core questions of politics: Who gets what, when, how, and at whose expense?"--Jacket

Includes bibliographical references and index

The informal politics of Japanese diet elections: cases and interpretations / Haruhiro Fukui and Shigenko N. Fukai -- Informal politics in Taiwan / T.J. Cheng and T.C. Chou -- The election process and informal politics in South Korea / Soohyun Chon -- Psychocultural foundations of informal groups: the issues of loyalty, sincerity, and trust / Chung-Fang Yang -- Informal politics among the Chinese Communist Party elite / Lowell Dittmer -- Formal structures, informal politics, and political change in China / Joseph Fewsmith -- The informal politics of leadership succession in Post-Mao China / Peter Nan-Shong Lee -- Organizational involution and sociopolitical reform in China: an analysis of the work unit / Lowell Dittmer and Lu Xiabo -- Clientage in the PRC's national defense research and development sector / Benjamin C. Ostrov -- North Korean informal politics / Samuel S. Kim -- Informal politics in Vietnam / Douglas Pike

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