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Anti-terrorism courts’ convictions in trials of sectarian-terrorism crimes: A case study of the Punjab province of Pakistan 反恐法庭对宗派主义犯罪的定罪:以巴基斯坦旁遮普省为例

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Asian Journal of Comparative Politics Pub Date : 2022-06-15 DOI: 10.1177/20578911221103441

Muhammad Umar, N. Khan

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Anti-authoritarian attitudes after democratic movements: Evidence from the June Struggle of 1987 in South Korea 民主运动后的反独裁态度：来自1987年韩国六月斗争的证据

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Asian Journal of Comparative Politics Pub Date : 2022-06-06 DOI: 10.1177/20578911221103641

H. Jung

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Rethinking regional politics: Beyond the 2021 West Bengal elections 重新思考地区政治：2021年西孟加拉邦选举之后

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Asian Journal of Comparative Politics Pub Date : 2022-05-06 DOI: 10.1177/20578911221099076

Vipin Kumar Chirakkara

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Explaining party fragmentation at district-level Indonesia 解释印尼地区政党分裂的原因

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Asian Journal of Comparative Politics Pub Date : 2022-04-18 DOI: 10.1177/20578911221094090

Noory Okthariza

{"title":"Explaining party fragmentation at district-level Indonesia","authors":"Noory Okthariza","doi":"10.1177/20578911221094090","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20578911221094090","url":null,"abstract":"While predominant views within party fragmentation literature suggest the importance of the sociological and institutional hypothesis, the Indonesian case provides a new perspective on the issue at hand. Using district-level elections, this article recognizes the weight of existing perspectives, but posits the need to empirically assess the effect of certain seat apportionment methods in the proportional representation system—a much under-explored argument within the literature. This article shows that Indonesia’s methods for allocating seats, the Hare and Sainte-Laguë methods, have been relatively benign in creating party fragmentation. Yet the latter method has been more favorable for small parties due to its deeper bent toward the disproportionality of votes. Additionally, given that major parties often perform unevenly across district elections, the nature of party competition at local politics has greatly diverged from that of the national arena. This article argues that this diversity has been driven partly by the strong influence of ethnic and geographical dispersion, making it hard for major parties to preside over local politics. Thus the concept of party nationalization hardly exists, and party fragmentation could be the default of the party system at local politics in Indonesia for years to come.","PeriodicalId":43694,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Comparative Politics","volume":"7 1","pages":"1008 - 1024"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49108233","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Fragile civility and the seeds of conflict among youth in contemporary Indonesia 脆弱的文明与当代印尼青年冲突的种子

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Asian Journal of Comparative Politics Pub Date : 2022-04-12 DOI: 10.1177/20578911221091327

Mun’im Sirry, Bagong Suyanto, R. Sugihartati, Medhy Hidayat, Koko Srimulyo

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The analytical framework for the policymaking process of Thai political parties under the CESE model CESE模式下泰国政党决策过程的分析框架

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Asian Journal of Comparative Politics Pub Date : 2022-04-05 DOI: 10.1177/20578911221090289

Thanapan Laiprakobsup

{"title":"The analytical framework for the policymaking process of Thai political parties under the CESE model","authors":"Thanapan Laiprakobsup","doi":"10.1177/20578911221090289","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20578911221090289","url":null,"abstract":"This research aims to establish an analytical framework for the policymaking process of Thai political parties from the 2001 general election to the present. Having reviewed theories on political parties and empirical research on finding the relation between the political and economic contexts, the political parties, and their organizations, the article finds that the policymaking process of political parties consists of: 1) centralization, 2) emphasis on solving everyday life’s economy, 3) being consistent with state policy and plan, and 4) similarities with the policies of political parties with success in elections. According to analysis of political parties’ policy structures and interviews with academicians and the informants from political parties, the article finds that the executive committee of political parties plays an enormous role in the policymaking process and concentrates on solving the problems of everyday life’s economy for low-income people. Moreover, political parties are likely to make policies in accordance with the state plan and the Thai-Rak-Thai Party’s policies. The implication is that the policymaking process of Thai political parties is vertically structured and rarely open to the rank-and-file to participate in. The participatory policymaking process becomes key to improving the quality of Thai democracy in the long run.","PeriodicalId":43694,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Comparative Politics","volume":"7 1","pages":"1247 - 1267"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45163802","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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How a non-democratic regime maintains its legitimacy over time: A study of changes in Chinese Communist Party legitimacy after 1949 一个非民主政权如何维持其合法性:1949年后中国共产党合法性变化的研究

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Asian Journal of Comparative Politics Pub Date : 2022-02-18 DOI: 10.1177/20578911221078030

Guan Huang, R. Pang

{"title":"How a non-democratic regime maintains its legitimacy over time: A study of changes in Chinese Communist Party legitimacy after 1949","authors":"Guan Huang, R. Pang","doi":"10.1177/20578911221078030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20578911221078030","url":null,"abstract":"By exploring the operation of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) since its rise to power in 1949, this article demonstrates how a non-democratic regime maintains its legitimacy. While previous studies have shed light on the CCP’s sources of legitimacy, few abundantly and comparatively discuss the different forms of legitimacy and how legitimacy changes over time in a non-democratic state. This study addresses these gaps by analyzing how the CCP’s operational principles change over time, including changes in sources and forms of legitimacy. This study uses different frameworks of legitimacy to facilitate the comparison of changes in legitimacy of different leadership generations, and also demonstrates the specification of legitimacy of the CCP from different perspectives. By comparing the sources and forms of legitimacy of different generations of regime leaders, this study demonstrates that after the death of Mao Zedong in 1976, the CCP regime lacked substantial legitimacy based on political participation, and thus emphasized instrumental legitimacy based on economic development instead. Using process tracing to analyze policy changes, this study argues that different CCP leadership generations employed different sources and forms of legitimacy to maintain regime support.","PeriodicalId":43694,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Comparative Politics","volume":"7 1","pages":"971 - 987"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47617553","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Comrades or contenders: A corpus-based study of China's Belt and Road in US diplomatic discourse 同志还是竞争者:基于语料库的中国“一带一路”在美国外交话语中的应用研究

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Asian Journal of Comparative Politics Pub Date : 2022-01-31 DOI: 10.1177/20578911211069709

M. Afzaal, Chenxia Zhang, M. I. Chishti

{"title":"Comrades or contenders: A corpus-based study of China's Belt and Road in US diplomatic discourse","authors":"M. Afzaal, Chenxia Zhang, M. I. Chishti","doi":"10.1177/20578911211069709","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20578911211069709","url":null,"abstract":"China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has received both praise and criticism within global settings. American stance, however, has been interesting sounding diplomatically more intricate. BRI’s opponents view it being hampered by impediments rather than facilitated with opportunities, while its advocates see opportunities instead of challenges because of its being in global limelight. While all parties have valid justifications for their express or tacit positions, they emphasize on the legitimacy of the status quo. To investigate these significant researchable inquiries, the study exclusively aims at examining the inherent ideologies and inconsistencies witnessed in the presentation and re-presentation of China's Belt and Road Initiative in US public diplomacy media outlets. Our findings reveal that China's image has been constructed differently at US diplomacy public media outlets hence establishing it as a major dimension worth inquiry. The study also shows that media attention and direct responses to the BRI in the United States view it through a lens of politically engineered problems. However, the diplomatic logic of the United States differs from the entire philosophy behind the BRI project as the BRI image has observed a drastic change from positive in re-presentation to being neutral rather somewhat negatively perceived.","PeriodicalId":43694,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Comparative Politics","volume":"7 1","pages":"684 - 702"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45637632","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The power of an elector in the Spanish parliament: A study compared with power indices 西班牙议会中选民的权力:一项与权力指数比较的研究

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Asian Journal of Comparative Politics Pub Date : 2022-01-28 DOI: 10.1177/20578911221076342

Julio R Fernández, I. Gallego, A. Jiménez-Losada

{"title":"The power of an elector in the Spanish parliament: A study compared with power indices","authors":"Julio R Fernández, I. Gallego, A. Jiménez-Losada","doi":"10.1177/20578911221076342","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20578911221076342","url":null,"abstract":"The main goal of this article is to study, from a game theory perspective, the composition of the Spanish Parliament according to Article 68 of the Spanish Constitution, although the proposed model is applicable to the reduction of other representation chambers. It even allows for the sporadic design of the chamber in periods of crisis such as those we are currently experiencing. We use power indices to analyse feasible allocations of seats among the circumscriptions, modifying the size of the Parliament and considering different minimum initial numbers of seats per province. We propose two modifications of the composition following the cubic root rule of the de jure population. Finally, we compare the results of the general elections of December 2015 and June 2016 for the election of the members of the Congress of Deputies (Spanish Parliament) with the current system, which distributes a total number of 350 deputies among the provinces, with an initial minimum of two deputies (system 350/2), with another distribution system that distributed 360 deputies with an initial minimum of one deputy per province (system 360/1).","PeriodicalId":43694,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Comparative Politics","volume":"7 1","pages":"1210 - 1231"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47204155","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Difficult decisions: Coercion in asymmetric security cooperation 艰难的决定：不对称安全合作中的胁迫

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Asian Journal of Comparative Politics Pub Date : 2022-01-27 DOI: 10.1177/20578911221076222

S. Munir

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