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| List of Illustrative Material | |
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| List of Abbreviations and Acronyms | |
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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| What are Pacific Asian politics? | |
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| Pattern and dynamics of Pacific Asian Politics | |
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| Pacific Asian politics in a comparative context | |
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| The field of study | |
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| How to use this text | |
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| The historical context | |
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| Early state formation | |
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| The centralized state model | |
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| The fragmented state model | |
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| The court-village structure | |
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| Models of European colonia rule and 'colonial modernity' | |
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| Nationalism in the early twentieth century | |
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| Pluralist politics in early post-war Pacific Asia, and why it failed | |
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| Leninist party-states, military | |
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| regimes and single-party dominant states | |
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| Transformation of the Cold War regimes | |
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| 'All roads lead to Rome'? | |
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| States and the political executive | |
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| The institutional and cultural foundations of state dominance | |
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| Types of states in Pacific Asia | |
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| Constitutions and the problem of legitimacy | |
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| Organization of the executive branch | |
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| Federal states without federalism | |
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| Faces of unitary states | |
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| The vertical administrative control model | |
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| Decentralization and devolution | |
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| Government, legislatures and judiciaries | |
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| Forms of government | |
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| Presidential systems | |
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| Parlimentary systems | |
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| Parliaments, congresses and people's congresses | |
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| Semi-presidential systems | |
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| Other forms of government | |
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| Parliaments, congresses and people's congresses | |
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| The making of law | |
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| Membership in the legislature | |
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| Rule of law and rule by law | |
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| Legislative powers over the executive | |
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| Supreme courts and constitutional courts | |
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| Judicial review and judicial activism | |
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| One state or three branches? | |
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| Grand political alliances: the fourth branch of government? | |
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| Limits of executive dominance | |
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| The politics of bureaucracy | |
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| From emprerors' servants to public servants | |
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| The best and the brightest: bureaucracy as a social class | |
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| Bureaucracy and the political executive | |
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| Authority delegation and bureaucratic insulation: bureaucracy as an organizational weapon of the state | |
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| The Weberian ideal and Pacific Asian practices: patrimonialism and corruption | |
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| How political liberalization reduces the power of the bureautcracy | |
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| Pressures for reform | |
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| How Pacific Asia Measures up in good governance | |
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| Public sector reforms: 'paradigm shifts or business as usual?' | |
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| The state and the economy | |
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| The developmental state | |
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| Economic activism | |
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| Across the boundaries | |
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| How governments govern the market | |
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| Industrial policy | |
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| Growth alliance and 'Japan, Inc.' | |
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| Rent deployment and rent seeking | |
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| Constraints on state power | |
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| Does law matter for economic development? | |
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| An Asian model of economic development? | |
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| Growing out of the model | |
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| Parties and elections | |
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| Party systems in Pacific Asia | |
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| Catch-all parties and corporatist parties | |
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| Party structures | |
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| Candidate selection procedures | |
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| Membership, recruitment and grassroots organization | |
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| Factionalism and regionalism | |
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| Party funding and money politics | |
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| Party system reforms | |
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| Electoral systems in Pacific Asia | |
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| The model for LDP dominance | |
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| Electoral rules in non-pluralist states | |
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| Elections and mass integration | |
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| Electoral reforms: trends and debates | |
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| Electoral rules, party politics and political order | |
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| Participation and power | |
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| State and society | |
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| Being a politically active citizen in Pacific Asian countries | |
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| Methods of political participation and action | |
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| 'People power' revolutions | |
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| Becoming a politician | |
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| How a politician generates and sustains political support | |
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| Who are the elites? | |
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| How elites influence politics and government | |
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| State co-option and accommodation of elites | |
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| Civil society in Pacific Asia | |
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| The civil society debate | |
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| Types of civil society and the roles of each | |
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| The ambiguity of the middle class | |
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| Labour unions, labour subordination and the labour movement | |
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| Ideologies, identities and political communication | |
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| Political ideologies and political action in Pacific Asia | |
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| Communism, socialism and Asian societies | |
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| Capitalism, the market economy and global expansion | |
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| Democracy and the politics of democratization | |
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| Identity and identity politics | |
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| Gender and social inequality | |
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| Ethnicity and the nation-state | |
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| The Malaysian model | |
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| The Singaporean model | |
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| The Chinese state and ethinic minorities | |
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| Chinese civilization and the cultural identities of 'Confucian' societies | |
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| National identity and states | |
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| Korea and Taiwan: nation and state | |
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| The role of the media in Pacific Asian politics | |
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| Politics of the internet | |
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| The international media | |
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| Modernization and democracy: is there an Asian way? | |
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| Modern state building in Pacific Asia | |
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| 'Nation, religion and king' | |
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| The role of religion in Pacific Asian politics | |
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| Confucianism and a moral political order | |
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| The family as a model of governance | |
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| The military as the guardians of the state | |
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| When democracy becomes' Asian' | |
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| Democratic institutions and political structure | |
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| Development and democracy | |
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| The problem of illiberal democracy | |
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| The politics of human rights | |
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| Is there an Asian way of governance? | |
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| The Asian values debate | |
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| Theories of multiple modernities | |
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| Globalization, regionalism and the myth of the Asian century | |
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| External forces and domestic politics | |
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| The principle and practices of sovereignty in Pacific Asia | |
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| The regional interstate system before the Second World War | |
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| Asian states and international society | |
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| Post-war bipolar structure and the 'flying geese' pattern | |
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| Why is there no Asian Union? | |
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| Effects of the international structure | |
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| Globalization and Asian politics | |
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| Asian states in the international system | |
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| The myth of an Asian century | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |