Party System Institutionalization in Asia: Democracies, Autocracies, and the Shadows of the Past

376 Pages·2014·3.583 MB·English

by  Allen Hicken and Erik Martinez Kuhonta

PartySystemInstitutionalizationinAsia
Thisbookprovidesacomprehensiveempiricalandtheoreticalanalysis
of the development of parties and party systems in Asia. The studies
includedadvanceauniqueperspectiveintheliteraturebyfocusingonthe
concept of institutionalization and by analyzing parties in democratic
settingsaswellasinauthoritariansettings.Thecountriescoveredinthe
bookrangefromNortheastAsiatoSoutheastAsiatoSouthAsia.
Allen Hicken is Associate Professor of Political Science, Research
Associate Professor at the Center for Political Studies, and Faculty
AssociateattheCenterforSoutheastAsianStudiesattheUniversityof
Michigan. He is the author of Building Party Systems in Developing
Democracies(2009)andtheeditorofPoliticsofModernSoutheastAsia:
CriticalIssuesinModernPolitics(2010).Hisarticleshaveappearedin
the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics,
ComparativePoliticalStudies,theJournalofEastAsianStudies,Asian
Survey,andElectoralStudies.
Erik Martinez Kuhonta is Associate Professor of Political Science and
MemberoftheInstitute fortheStudyofInternationalDevelopmentat
McGillUniversity.HeistheauthorofTheInstitutionalImperative:The
PoliticsofEquitableDevelopmentinSoutheastAsia(2011),whichwas
short-listedforthe2012CanadianPoliticalScienceAssociationPrizein
ComparativePolitics.HeisalsocoeditorofSoutheastAsiainPolitical
Science: Theory, Region, and Qualitative Analysis (2008). His articles
have appeared in Comparative Political Studies, Contemporary
SoutheastAsia,AsianSurvey,andPacificReview.

Party System Institutionalization in Asia
Democracies, Autocracies, and the Shadows
of the Past
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ERIK MARTINEZ KUHONTA
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Contents
Listoffigures pageix
Listoftables x
Listofcontributors xiii
Acknowledgments xvii
1. Introduction:RethinkingPartySystemInstitutionalization
inAsia 1
AllenHickenandErikMartinezKuhonta
2. TheAntidemocraticPotentialofPartySystem
Institutionalization:MalaysiaasMoralityTale? 25
MeredithL.Weiss
3. InstitutionalizedSuccessionandHegemonicPartyCohesion
inSingapore 49
NetinaTan
4. PartySystemInstitutionalizationinJapan 74
KennethMoriMcElwain
5. LongintheMaking:Taiwan’sInstitutionalizedPartySystem 108
Tun-jenChengandYung-mingHsu
6. TheMakingandUnmakingoftheCommunistParty
andSingle-PartySystemofVietnam 136
TuongVu
7. TheInstitutionalizationoftheCommunistPartyandtheParty
SysteminChina 162
YongnianZheng
8. PartySystemInstitutionalizationinIndia 189
CsabaNikolenyi
vii
viii Contents
9. PartyandPartySystemInstitutionalizationinCambodia 212
SorpongPeou
10. ExplainingPartySystemInstitutionalizationinIndonesia 236
PaigeJohnsonTan
11. SouthKorea’sWeaklyInstitutionalizedPartySystem 260
JosephWong
12. Thailand’sFecklessPartiesandPartySystem:APath-Dependent
Analysis 280
ErikMartinezKuhonta
13. PartyandPartySystemInstitutionalizationinthePhilippines 307
AllenHicken
14. PartySystemInstitutionalization:ReflectionsBased
ontheAsianCases 328
ScottMainwaring
Index 349