TY - BOOK ID - 28231278 TI - Informal politics in East Asia AU - Dittmer, Lowell AU - Fukui, Haruhiro AU - Lee, Peter N. S. PY - 2000 SN - 0521645387 0521642329 0511629494 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - S02/0100 KW - S02/0200 KW - S06/0260 KW - China: General works--China (and Asia) general surveys: before 1949 KW - China: General works--Civilization and culture KW - China: Politics and government--The Chinese model KW - Political culture KW - Culture KW - Political science KW - East Asia KW - Politics and government. KW - Culture politique KW - Extrême-Orient KW - Politique et gouvernement KW - Social Sciences KW - Political Science UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:28231278 AB - The authors of Informal Politics in East Asia, first published in 2000, argue that political interaction within the informal dimension (behind-the-scenes politics) is at least as common and influential, though not always as transparent or coherent, as formal politics, and that this understudied category of social interaction merits more serious and methodical attention from social scientists. 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 authors apply to this dynamic region the classic core questions of politics: who gets what, when, how, and at whose expense? ER -