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Perceived Political Polarization and its Differential Impact on Political Participation: Evidence from Japan (2005–2019) Journal of East Asian Studies (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-30 Yue Yin
Political polarization has been a growing concern in Japan, particularly in recent years with the upsurge of nationalism and populism. However, little research has examined how it relates to the political behavior of the Japanese people. Using data from the 2005–2019 Japanese Electoral Studies (JES), this study shows that political polarization manifests itself in different ways depending on the specific
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Between Appeasement and Accommodation: Kōmeitō's Policy Influence under Second Abe Administration Journal of East Asian Studies (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-28 Sukeui Sohn
This study examines the Kōmeitō's strategies for policy influence within the coalition framework with its coalition partner, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) during the period of Second Abe Administration (2012–2020). As a junior coalition partner, Kōmeitō faces unity–distinctiveness dilemma, where it must accommodate policy demands of the senior partner while appeasing its core support base, Sōka
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Confucian Culture and Democratic Values: An Empirical Comparative Study in East Asia Journal of East Asian Studies (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Minxuan Huang
Many studies have been conducted on the link between Confucianism and democratic values in East Asia, but they have failed to account for the complex character of Confucianism and the possible impact of political systems. This study re-measures Confucian values into four dimensions—authoritarianism, familialism, collectivism, and harmoniousness—based on data from the fourth wave of the Asian Barometer
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Thailand's Movement Party: The Evolution of the Move Forward Party Journal of East Asian Studies (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Thareerat Laohabut, Duncan McCargo
The existing literature on the relationship between political parties and social movements draws mainly from European cases, and has rarely captured the kinds of relationships that may exist in other parts of the world. This article addresses the gap by shedding light on the dynamics of party–movement relationships in Thailand. We examine the connections between two Thai political parties and a variety
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Economic Considerations and Public Support for Environment Policy in East and Southeast Asia Journal of East Asian Studies (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Mi Jeong Shin, Jia Chen
The “environment–economy trade-off” is a key question in research on public opinion on environmental policies. While evidence from Western economies suggests that individuals are more supportive of environmental initiatives when the macroeconomic situation is favorable, little is known about how environmental policy preferences are shaped by economic factors in East and Southeast Asian countries. Using
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The Falling-Out of Nuclear Suppliers: US–France–Canada Negotiations and Debates on the ROK Nuclear Program Journal of East Asian Studies (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Lyong Choi, Jooyoung Lee
This article traces ROK–US negotiations for the termination of the ROK's nuclear weapons program. It was not solely an issue of ROK–US relations; France and Canada, other allies of the United States, were also involved in the ROK's nuclear weapons development. When an ally (ROK) attempted to develop nuclear weapons and another ally (France) pursued commercial interests by exporting nuclear technology
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Exploring East Asia's Successful Early-Stage Covid-19 Response: An Empirical Investigation Journal of East Asian Studies (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Kee Hoon Chung, Haeil Jung, Miyeun Jung
This study examines whether a degree of autocracy and high quality of bureaucracy—two mechanisms often discussed in the context of Covid-19 responses—provide a meaningful explanation for East Asia's relative success compared to the rest of the world at the beginning of the Covid pandemic. Our multiple regression analysis for 111 countries supports our expectation, as East Asia as a region is significantly
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Resentment and Polarization in Indonesia Journal of East Asian Studies (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-10-20 Seth Soderborg, Burhanuddin Muhtadi
Is political polarization in Indonesia here to stay? For years, scholarly consensus on partisanship in Indonesia viewed weak partisan identity, collusive party behavior, and the predominance of personality as features of a system that would prevent the emergence of deep polarization. In the wake of religious and ethnic mobilizations during three contentious elections, the question of whether polarization
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When Authoritarian Legacies Matter: Constructive and Blind National Pride and Voter Turnout in New Democracies Journal of East Asian Studies (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-10-16 Gidong Kim, Jae Mook Lee
In new democracies, what is the role of nationalism in terms of democratic behavior such as voter turnout? Previous studies have found that, in Western democracies, constructive national pride increases voter turnout, while blind national pride decreases it. However, little scholarly attention has been paid to new democracies. Given different political contexts, we argue that blind national pride can
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Pretending to Support? Duterte's Popularity and Democratic Backsliding in the Philippines Journal of East Asian Studies (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-09-11 Yuko Kasuya, Hirofumi Miwa
The incumbent-led subversion of democracy represents the most prevalent form of democratic backsliding in recent decades. A central puzzle in this mode of backsliding is why these incumbents enjoy popular support despite their actions against democracy. We address this puzzle using the case of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. Although some Philippine analysts have speculated that his popularity
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Social Conflict and Outgroup Sentiment in South Korea: Evidence from the Yemeni Anti-Refugee Campaign Journal of East Asian Studies (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-06-19 Harris Hyun-soo Kim
Research on attitudes toward immigrants and refugees largely focuses on intergroup conflict and related threats imposed by outgroup members. This study shifts the analytic focus to intragroup conflict: a domestic struggle among natives over how to handle recently arrived refugees and on their perception of foreign workers in general and Muslims in particular. By exploiting an exogenous variation in
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Authoritarian Legacies and Partisan Bias in Corruption Voting Journal of East Asian Studies (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-27 Sanghoon Kim-Leffingwell
What explains the lack of electoral consequences for corrupt politicians? Building on studies of motivated reasoning and asymmetric partisan bias, this article highlights the importance of partisan differences in how voters interpret corruption convictions and make voting decisions. I contend that in post-authoritarian democracies, supporters of authoritarian legacy parties (ALPs) are less likely to
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Misleading Ballot Positions and Invalid Votes Journal of East Asian Studies (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-03 Ha Na Lee, B. K. Song
In this paper, we study how a combination of random ballot ordering and concurrent elections can increase invalid votes in the context of South Korea. In South Korea, elections for the nonpartisan superintendent of education are held concurrently with other partisan races. Whereas the ballot order for candidates in the nonpartisan superintendent of education elections is randomized and rotated, this
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Circling the Wagons: How Perceived Injustice Increases Female Bureaucrats’ Support for Female Political Leaders Journal of East Asian Studies (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-02-24 Don S. Lee, Paul Schuler, Soonae Park
Does female bureaucratic support for female political leaders change over time? Existing research focuses on factors that vary across countries. Little work examines how contingent events within a context impact gender-based solidarity. Drawing on collective identity theory, we argue that high-profile incidents of perceived gender-based injustice against a female president could increase female bureaucrats’
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Authoritarian Successor Parties, Supporters, and Protest: Lessons from Asian Democracies Journal of East Asian Studies (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-02-17 Myunghee Lee
Are authoritarian successor party (ASP) supporters more likely to protest? I propose that ASP supporters are less likely to protest in general. The post-democratization mobilization environment is shaped upon the pre-democratization mobilization basis. During the pre-democratization period, protest was organized around the democracy movement. Thus, protest tactics and networks were accumulated through
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External Threats and Public Opinion: The East Asian Security Environment and Japanese Views on the Nuclear Option Journal of East Asian Studies (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-02-14 Naoko Matsumura, Atsushi Tago, Joseph M. Grieco
The Japanese public has been assumed to possess a deeply ingrained aversion toward the acquisition of nuclear weapons. We employ a survey experiment to ascertain whether this aversion is unconditional or may erode in the face of hypothetical deterioration in Japan's security situation, and in particular a hypothetical withdrawal of the US security-nuclear umbrella, increased North Korean nuclear weapons
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Korean NGOs and Reconciliation with Japan Journal of East Asian Studies (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-02-10 Leif-Eric Easley
Strained South Korea–Japan ties are frequently attributed to the use and abuse of history by national leaders. This article considers a more bottom-up explanation by examining how Korean civil society is taking three different pathways to exert influence on bilateral relations. First, non-governmental organizations are expanding domestic and international awareness of grievances regarding Japan's 1910–1945
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The Persistence of Ethnopopulist Support: The Case of Rodrigo Duterte's Philippines Journal of East Asian Studies (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-01-27 Dean Dulay, Allen Hicken, Ronald Holmes
The past few years have seen an emergence of populist leaders around the world, who have not only accrued but also maintained support despite rampant criticism, governance failures, and the ongoing COVID pandemic. The Philippines’ Rodrigo Duterte is the best illustration of this trend, with approval ratings rarely dipping below 80 percent. What explains his high levels of robust public support? We
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Bureaucrats and Budgets in South Korea: Evidence for Hometown Favoritism Journal of East Asian Studies (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-01-19 Hoyong Jung
This article presents evidence that high-ranking public officials in the Ministry of Strategy and Finance in South Korea affect local budget allocation. Applying a regression model on a uniquely constructed panel dataset, I found that the growth rate of the per-capita National Subsidy, which is a subcomponent of the national budget susceptible to discretionary behaviors, increases approximately 7 percent
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Only Right Makes Might? Center-Right Policy Competition Among Major Japanese Parties After Electoral Reform Journal of East Asian Studies (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-12-29 Christian G. Winkler, Naoko Taniguchi
The effects of the 1990s reforms to the electoral system of Japan's House of Representatives have been among the most frequently discussed topics in political science research on the country. These reforms saw the replacement of a hitherto single nontransferable vote (SNTV) system by a mixed-member majoritarian (MMM) system with a strong Single Member District (SMD) and a weaker Proportional Representation
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State Mobilization in Authoritarian Regimes: Youth Politics and Regime Legitimation in Cambodia Journal of East Asian Studies (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-10-24 Mun Vong
This article explains the political significance of the Union of Youth Federations of Cambodia, the quasi-youth wing of the ruling Cambodian People's Party in Cambodia. I argue that pro-regime events organized by the youth wing are a form of state mobilization designed to help the ruling party pre-empt the threat posed by the country's growing youth population. In doing so, the youth wing draws upon
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Politically Speaking: Ethnic Language and Audience Opinion in Southeast Asia Journal of East Asian Studies (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-10-17 Jacob I. Ricks
Language is one of the quintessential markers of ethnicity. It allows co-ethnics to easily identify one another and underscores in-group and out-group boundaries. Recognizing this, politicians frequently employ ethnic tongues to enhance their political appeal. To what extent does this shape the opinions of their audiences? Utilizing a survey experiment, I test the impact of an ethnic tongue against
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The Tax Models in Japan and Korea: Concepts and Evidence from a Comparative Perspective Journal of East Asian Studies (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-08-11 Sung Ho Park
Existing studies have relied on the notion of developmentalism to explain key aspects of the tax policies in Japan and Korea. However, limited efforts have been made to explore these cases from a comparative perspective based on relevant evidence. Far fewer studies have been conducted for examining the contemporary evolution of the tax policies following major reforms since the 1990s. This article
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Land-Use Change Conflicts and Anti-Corporate Activism in Indonesia: A Review Essay Journal of East Asian Studies (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-07-21 Afrizal, Ward Berenschot
While processes of land-use change have triggered conflicts across Asia, our knowledge of the responses of affected communities is largely based on case-studies. This review essay addresses this challenge by reviewing and synthesizing 49 studies of conflicts between rural communities and companies in order to identify salient characteristics of anti-corporate activism in Indonesia. We find that, in
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Who Should Call for Advocacies? The Influence of Rights Advocates on the Public's Attitude Toward Immigrants’ Voting Rights in Japan Journal of East Asian Studies (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-06-20 Akira Igarashi, Yoshikuni Ono
Native allies are critical to the success of immigrants’ social movements in East Asian countries because of their relatively small number. However, it remains unclear whether advocacy messages from natives or from immigrants are more effective in changing natives’ attitudes toward supporting immigrant-oriented policies. We hypothesize, from the perspective of social identity theory, that the persuasiveness
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Presidential Electoral Cycles and Corruption Charges Journal of East Asian Studies (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-06-01 Joe Amick, Mlada Bukovansky, Amy H. Liu
Anti-corruption efforts are inherently political. Corruption charges can be levied against political opponents as an instrument of repression; they can also be used against troublesome allies in the same party coalition to further consolidate power. In this paper, we focus on Indonesia and ask: Do major corruption charges follow a presidential electoral cycle—and if so, how? We contend charges against
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Myanmar's 2020 Election: Explaining the Strong Performance of the NLD and Some Ethnic Parties Journal of East Asian Studies (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-05-30 Kai-Ping Huang
Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) won another landslide victory in the 2020 general election. Although there was widespread dissatisfaction with the government's poor management of the economy and ethnic conflicts, as well as with the pre-electoral coordination of ethnic parties in several states, opposition and ethnic-based parties had failed to gain more seats. Previous explanations
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Fear and Loathing or Strategic Priming? Unveiling the Audience in Duterte's Crime Rhetoric Journal of East Asian Studies (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-02-22 Rogelio Alicor L. Panao, Ronald A. Pernia
This paper examines speechmaking on a contentious policy by arguably one of the most controversial figures to have assumed the Philippine presidency. Drawing on quantitative textual approaches on a corpus of 845 presidential speeches delivered between June 2016 and July 2020, we provide evidence that Rodrigo Duterte's evocative utterances against drug lords and criminals are not just deliberate illocutionary
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Partisanship, Fiscal Transfers, and Social Spending in Korea: The Politics of Partial Decentralization Journal of East Asian Studies (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-01-31 Eunyoung Ha, Dong Wook Lee
In the last three decades, many Asian democracies have decentralized their political systems to promote the democratic, equal, and efficient distribution of national resources across regions. Nonetheless, most of these countries, including South Korea, are still in a stage of “partial fiscal decentralization,” in which locally elected officials have spending authority, while a significant portion of
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Elite Polarization in South Korea: Evidence from a Natural Language Processing Model Journal of East Asian Studies (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-01-27 Seungwoo Han
This study analyzes political polarization among the South Korean elite by examining 17 years’ worth of subcommittee meeting minutes from the South Korean National Assembly's standing committees. Its analysis applies various natural language processing techniques and the bidirectional encoder representations from the transformers model to measure and analyze polarization in the language used during
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The Rise and Fall of Anti-Corruption in North Korea Journal of East Asian Studies (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-01-27 Christopher Carothers
North Korea is widely seen as having among the most corrupt governments in the world. However, the Kim family regime has not always been so accepting of government wrongdoing. Drawing on archival evidence, this study shows that Kim Il-sung saw corruption as a threat to economic development and launched campaigns to curb it throughout the 1950s. I find that these campaigns were at least somewhat successful
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Law Production in Multiparty Presidentialism: Veto Player Theory and its Application to Korea Journal of East Asian Studies (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-01-20 Woojin Moon
In this article, I offer a theory of lawmaking in multiparty presidential systems with different legislative institutions. I present a model that combines Krehbiel's pivotal politics theory with Tsebelis's veto players theory. This model simplifies various institutional veto players into the de facto veto players. I analyze the model to explain how the government type (unified versus divided governments)
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THE EFFECTS OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY ON PUBLIC ATTITUDES: EVIDENCE FROM THE CHINESE-SPEAKING WORLD – CORRIGENDUM Journal of East Asian Studies (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2021-11-18 Yue Hu,Amy H. Liu
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IS JAPAN BACK? MEASURING NATIONALISM AND MILITARY ASSERTIVENESS IN ASIA'S OTHER GREAT POWER Journal of East Asian Studies (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2021-11-02 Jennifer Lind, Chikako Kawakatsu Ueki
Observers of East Asia frequently claim that Japanese nationalism is on the rise, and that Tokyo is abandoning its longtime military restraint. To determine whether these trends are indeed occurring, we define and measure Japan's nationalism and military assertiveness; we measure whether they are rising relative to Japan in the past, and relative to seven other countries.Drawing from social identity
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PRESIDENTS AND THE CONDITIONAL CORE-SWING TARGETING OF THE NATIONAL SUBSIDY IN SOUTH KOREA, 1989–2018 Journal of East Asian Studies (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2021-10-23 Wooseok Kim
In this article, I present a theory of conditional core-swing targeting that focuses on the competition for majority control in legislative elections to explain how presidents use their strong budgetary powers to manipulate the distribution of the national subsidy in South Korea. Presidents whose parties already possess a legislative majority are expected to favor core municipalities to strengthen
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STUCK IN PLACE? NORMALIZATION AND THE CHANGING VOTER PROFILE OF INDONESIA'S ISLAMIST PROSPEROUS JUSTICE PARTY Journal of East Asian Studies (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2021-10-23 Jung Hoon Park
Using the case of the Indonesian Prosperous Justice Party (PKS), I seek to measure the actual impact of Islamist parties’ moderation on their electoral performances and voter bases. Statistical analyses find that although PKS has experienced an influx of diverse voters since the early 2000s, the influx was offset by a gradual withdrawal of educated Islamist voters, who had been loyal to the party since
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Immigrant Incorporation in East Asian Democracies. By Erin Aeran Chung. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. 270 pp. $40 (paper). Journal of East Asian Studies (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2021-07-01 Miles Schaffrick
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IS CLASS VOTING EMERGENT IN KOREA? – ADDENDUM Journal of East Asian Studies (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2021-06-15 Yoonkyung Lee,Jong-sung You
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WHY DIVIDE MIGRANTS BY THEIR TYPES?: CONTACTS AND PERCEPTIONS OF MIGRANTS IN JAPAN Journal of East Asian Studies (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2021-06-07 Yujin Woo
This article compares the public perceptions of various types of migrants in Japan and examines whether Japanese view them equally. Using an original survey, which presented six types of migrants that Japanese people most commonly face in their daily lives, I show several interesting results. First, respondents express the most negative views toward labor migrants. Second, respondents who have migrant
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CORRUPTION AND PERCEIVED FAIRNESS: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM EAST ASIAN COUNTRIES Journal of East Asian Studies (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2021-05-05 Wen-Chun Chang
Corruption can erode political trust and a well-functioning democratic system, but it is unclear whether perceptions of corruption are significantly associated with citizens’ perceptions about the fairness of income distribution. This study thus examines the role of political trust in shaping the relationship between perceptions of corruption and perceived fairness of income distribution for East Asian
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ETHNIC AND RELIGIOUS SENTIMENTS IN INDONESIAN POLITICS: EVIDENCE FROM THE 2017 JAKARTA GUBERNATORIAL ELECTION Journal of East Asian Studies (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2021-04-13 Nathanael Gratias Sumaktoyo
Studies have documented how ethnic and religious sentiments shape the voting behavior of Indonesian Muslims. However, to date no studies have carefully measured the relative influence of these sentiments. I fill this gap in the literature by taking advantage of the candidacy of a Christian, ethnic Chinese candidate in the 2017 Jakarta gubernatorial election in Basuki Tjahaja Purnama (Ahok). Employing
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LEVIATHAN FOR SALE: MARITIME POLICE PRIVATIZATION, BUREAUCRATIC CORRUPTION, AND THE SEWOL DISASTER Journal of East Asian Studies (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2021-03-02 Kyong Jun Choi, Jonson N. Porteux
We argue that the 2014 Sewol ferry disaster in South Korea, in which 304 passengers perished, was a result of the mode and process of privatization of South Korea's maritime police and rescue services. Through the development of a nuanced theory of privatization and use of a novel conceptualization of corruption, coupled with empirical analysis, our study shows that the outcome was symptomatic of a
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Shanghai Sacred: The Religious Landscape of a Global City. By Benoît Vermander, Liz Hingley, and Liang Zhang. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2018. 255 pp. $30.00 Journal of East Asian Studies (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2021-03-01 Jonathan Brasnett
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THE LONG-TERM IMPACT OF SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND REPRESSION ON DEMOCRATIC ATTITUDES Journal of East Asian Studies (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2021-02-02 Scott Desposato, Gang Wang
Democracy movements in authoritarian regimes usually fail and are repressed, but they may still affect attitudes and norms of participants and bystanders. We exploit several features of a student movement to test for enduring effects of social movements on democratic attitudes. College students were the core of the movement and had wide exposure to the ideas and activities of the movement, as well
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DE-THAKSINIZING THAILAND: THE LIMITS OF INSTITUTIONAL DESIGN Journal of East Asian Studies (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2021-02-02 Teri L. Caraway
Almost two decades after the initial victory of Thai Rak Thai, scholars still debate the forces behind Thaksin's rise to power. I revisit these debates and argue for a more explicit analysis of dynamics over time. I distinguish analytically between the founding moment of TRT's first victory and the subsequent reproduction of its dominance. I argue that TRT's financial muscle was a sufficient condition
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BUSINESS AND LOCAL TAXATION IN THE PHILIPPINES Journal of East Asian Studies (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2020-11-10 Ryan Tans
This article argues that weak local governments increase levels of taxation by “borrowing” institutional capacity from certain types of businesses. While many businesses lobby against taxation, businesses that are locally owned, nationally connected, and logistically complex build robust associations that support taxation. These types of businesses benefit from improvements in public infrastructure
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ROUNDTABLE ON TERI L. CARAWAY'S “DE-THAKSINIZING THAILAND: THE LIMITS OF INSTITUTIONAL DESIGN” – JOEL SAWAT SELWAY Journal of East Asian Studies (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2020-11-01 Joel Sawat Selway
institutions worked just as we would expect. Finally, note that the 2019 election results reinforce the argument for the role of institutions. The changes to the electoral system in the 2017 constitution, namely the shift to a much more proportional system, did have the intended effect of helping to re-fragment the party system in the 2019 election (Hicken and Selway 2019). In conclusion, I commend
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ROUNDTABLE ON TERI L. CARAWAY'S “DE-THAKSINIZING THAILAND: THE LIMITS OF INSTITUTIONAL DESIGN” – ALLEN HICKEN Journal of East Asian Studies (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2020-11-01 Allen Hicken
1. By contrast, within Southeast Asian Studies, the literature on Philippine politics is notable for significant research that takes temporality very seriously. See, for e,g., Anderson 1996; Sidel 1999; Hutchcroft 2000. For a review of the relationship between comparative-historical analysis and Southeast Asian Studies, see Kuhonta 2014. 2. 800,000 individuals were laid off during the financial crisis
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ROUNDTABLE ON TERI L. CARAWAY'S “DE-THAKSINIZING THAILAND: THE LIMITS OF INSTITUTIONAL DESIGN” – ERIK MARTINEZ KUHONTA Journal of East Asian Studies (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2020-11-01 Erik Martinez Kuhonta
Teri Caraway's very insightful paper asks us to re-think the extent to which institutions played a significant role in the electoral victories of Thaksin Shinawatra and his Thai Rak Thai Party (and their subsequent incarnations). Arguing against the so-called “institutionalists,”Caraway argues that constitutional and electoral rules did not matter in generating TRT's victory, but rather had temporal
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Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap? By Graham Allison. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017. 384 pp. $25 (cloth). Journal of East Asian Studies (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2020-11-01 Natacha Moorooven
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STRONG FANS, WEAK CAMPAIGNS: SOCIAL MEDIA AND DUTERTE IN THE 2016 PHILIPPINE ELECTION Journal of East Asian Studies (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2020-07-27 Aim Sinpeng, Dimitar Gueorguiev, Aries A. Arugay
The 2016 presidential contest is widely considered as the first “social media election” in the Philippines. At the same time, it remains unclear if or how social media helped Rodrigo Duterte mobilize voters to gain victory. There are three main social media campaigning models: broadcast, grassroots, and self-actualizing. Analysis of twenty million activities and 39,942 randomly sampled comments across
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BEYOND THEORETICAL DETERMINISM: EXPLORING THE COMPLEXITY OF POWER TRANSITIONS Journal of East Asian Studies (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2020-07-01 Robert Ross
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THE AUTHORS RESPOND – KORI SCHAKE Journal of East Asian Studies (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2020-07-01 Kori Schake
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THE AUTHORS RESPOND – STACIE GODDARD Journal of East Asian Studies (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2020-07-01 Stacie Goddard
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THE AUTHORS RESPOND – JOSHUA SHIFRINSON Journal of East Asian Studies (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2020-07-01 Joshua Shifrinson
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THE AUTHORS RESPOND – PAUL MACDONALD AND JOSEPH PARENT Journal of East Asian Studies (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2020-07-01 Paul MacDonald,Joseph Parent
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A NEW PENAL POPULISM? RODRIGO DUTERTE, PUBLIC OPINION, AND THE WAR ON DRUGS IN THE PHILIPPINES Journal of East Asian Studies (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2020-06-10 Paul D. Kenny, Ronald Holmes
Drawing on evidence from the Philippines, this paper investigates the so-called penal populism thesis. Penal populism refers to an understanding of justice in which criminal and anti-social activity should be harshly punished. The paper tests whether support for harsh penal policies, including the use of extrajudicial killings, is associated with underlying populist attitudes and preferences for charismatic
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INTERPERSONAL TRUST AND CONFIDENCE IN LABOR UNIONS: THE CASE OF SOUTH KOREA Journal of East Asian Studies (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2020-04-15 Byunghwan Son
How do ordinary citizens view labor unions? The importance of public opinion about unions has rarely been highlighted in the contemporary literature on labor politics. Using five waves of the World Value Surveys on South Korea, this article suggests that public confidence in labor unions is significantly affected by individuals’ interpersonal trust, conditional on their perception of the political
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THE IMPACT OF MUNICIPAL MERGERS ON LOCAL PUBLIC SPENDING: EVIDENCE FROM REMOTE-SENSING DATA Journal of East Asian Studies (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2020-04-03 Steve Pickering, Seiki Tanaka, Kyohei Yamada
How are resources distributed when administrative units merge? We take advantage of recent, large-scale municipal mergers in Japan to systematically study the impact of municipal mergers within merged municipalities and, in particular, what politicians do when their districts and constituencies suddenly change. We argue that when rural and sparsely populated municipalities merge with more urban and
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SOCIAL NETWORKS AS A POLITICAL RESOURCE: REVISITING THE KOREAN DEMOCRATIC TRANSITION Journal of East Asian Studies (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2020-03-03 Joon Nak Choi, Ji Yeon Hong
In this paper, we study how political parties react to democratic transitions. We find that the structure of legislators’ social networks plays a critical role in shaping their political interactions during the transition period, and consequently, the post-transition party systems that emerge. We focus on the Korean case, where the incumbent authoritarian party merged with one of its pro-democracy