This handbook showcases the rich varieties of legislatures that exist in Asia and explains how political power is constituted in 17 jurisdictions in East, Southeast and South Asia.
Legislatures in Asia come in all stripes. Liberal democracies co-exist cheek by jowl with autocracies; semi-democratic and competitive authoritarian systems abound. While all legislatures exist to make law and confer legitimacy on the political leadership, how representative they are of the people they govern differs dramatically across the continent, such that it is impossible to identify a common Asian prototype. Divided into thematic and country-by-country sections, this handbook is a one-stop reference that surveys the range of political systems operating in Asia. Each jurisdiction chapter examines the structure and composition of its legislature, the powers of the legislature, the legislative process, thereby providing a clear picture of how each legislature operates both in theory and in practice. The book also thematically analyses the following political systems operating in Asia: communist regimes, liberal democracies, dominant party democracies, turbulent democracies, presidential democracies, military regimes and protean authoritarian rule.
This handbook is a vital and comprehensive resource for scholars of constitutional law and politics in Asia.
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Sprache
Verlagsort
Verlagsgruppe
Zielgruppe
Für höhere Schule und Studium
Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced
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3 s/w Zeichnungen, 22 s/w Tabellen, 3 s/w Abbildungen
22 Tables, black and white; 3 Line drawings, black and white; 3 Illustrations, black and white
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Höhe: 246 mm
Breite: 174 mm
Dicke: 23 mm
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ISBN-13
978-0-367-62428-6 (9780367624286)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Po Jen Yap is a Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Hong Kong, where he specialises in Constitutional and Administrative Law.
Rehan Abeyratne is an Associate Professor of Law at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, where he specialises in constitutional law and comparative constitutionalism.
Herausgeber*in
University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Contributors
1 Parliaments in Asia: Introduction
Po Jen Yap and Rehan Abeyratne
PART I
Thematic Chapters
2 Communist regimes
Po Jen Yap and Chen Yu-Jie
3 Liberal democracies
Chien-Chih Lin
4 Dominant party democracies
Po Jen Yap and Marcus Teo
5 Turbulent democracies
Rehan Abeyratne
6 Presidential democracies
Bjoern Dressel and Fakhridho Susilo
PART II
Jurisdiction Chapters
7 The Parliament ( Jatiya Sangsad) of Bangladesh
M Jashim Ali Chowdhury
8 The National Assembly and Senate of the Kingdom of Cambodia
Benjamin Lawrence
9 The National People's Congress in China
Sun Ying
10 The Legislative Council of Hong Kong
Eric Chan
11 The Parliament and State Legislatures of India
M Mohsin Alam Bhat
12 The Legislatures of Indonesia
Simon Butt and Tim Lindsey
13 The Japanese Diet
Shigenori Matsui
14 The Parliament of Malaysia
Wong Chin Huat
15 The Legislature (Pyidaungsu Hluttaw) of Myanmar
Richard Roewer and Han Htoo Khant Paing
16 The Parliament of Pakistan
Mariam Mufti
17 The Congress of the Philippines
Bryan Dennis G Tiojanco and Ronald Ray K San Juan
18 The Parliament of Singapore
Eugene KB Tan
19 The National Assembly of the Republic of Korea
Sang-Un Park
20 The Parliament of Sri Lanka
Dinesha Samararatne
21 The Legislative Yuan of Taiwan
Yen-Tu Su
22 The Legislative Assembly of Thailand
Khemthong Tonsakulrungruang and Aua-aree Engchanil
23 The National Assembly of Vietnam
Ngoc Son Bui
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