Asian Politics & Policy最新文献

{"title":"Local private actors in transnational policy networks: A relational approach to studying policy transfers in Asia","authors":"Kidjie Saguin,&nbsp;Kritika Sha","doi":"10.1111/aspp.12704","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/aspp.12704","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Many documented cases of policy transfer in Asia involve small and medium enterprises as well as public enterprises but little is known about how and why these local private actors participate in transnational policy transfer networks. We propose a relational view of policy transfer to examine how agency is exercised in these kinds of transfer networks. We develop a typology of the engagement of these private actors—solutionist and entrepreneur—based on their relational position in the policy transfer process and illustrate its usefulness using two cases of policy transfer between: (1) Yokohama (Japan) and Cebu (Philippines) and (2) Singapore and New Clark City (Philippines). A common theme in these networks is the diffused nature of agency where local private actors are pulled in to provide epistemic resources.</p>","PeriodicalId":44747,"journal":{"name":"Asian Politics & Policy","volume":"15 3","pages":"369-389"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/aspp.12704","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50137370","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Policy transfer as a driver of paradigm change? Lessons from a partnership for “eco-city” development in urban China","authors":"Giulia C. Romano","doi":"10.1111/aspp.12710","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/aspp.12710","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article analyses the impacts of an international cooperation project in the field of “eco-city” development in China, using a policy transfer perspective. It explores the relationship between policy transfers and paradigm shifts and discussing the thesis of a “Chinese art” of policy transfers, according to which Chinese policymakers operate a form of cherry-picking that prefers technical recommendations over policy or procedural recommendations and is dictated by “national self-interest.” Based on a longitudinal study of the transfer of a renewal paradigm to a Chinese city, Yangzhou, the study shows that the transfer resulted in significant policy change, going beyond technical aspects. Therefore, the thesis of “Chinese art” is not confirmed. However, a full-fledged paradigm shift was not observable as elements of the old paradigm are still present. Policy transfers can thus result in paradigm shifts, but their institutionalization is likely to be slow and gradual.</p>","PeriodicalId":44747,"journal":{"name":"Asian Politics & Policy","volume":"15 3","pages":"390-407"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/aspp.12710","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50137369","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Another path to electoral reform: Cohort replacement and electoral issues for rule changes in Japan","authors":"Yong Jae Kim,&nbsp;Dennis Patterson","doi":"10.1111/aspp.12702","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/aspp.12702","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The literature of electoral reform explains politicians' preferences and social forces such as working-class power or expansions of the suffrage are the major factors that bring about a change in electoral rules. However, we argue that generational replacement and electoral issue effects lead politicians to introduce a new electoral system for their electoral survival in future. By examining Japan's surveys for pre- and postreform elections, we show that the entrance of new generation and salient issue concerns dissolve electoral bases of political parties and finally give rise to a change in the rules of the game for the greater electoral stability that political elites desire.</p>","PeriodicalId":44747,"journal":{"name":"Asian Politics & Policy","volume":"15 3","pages":"475-495"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50120830","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}

{"title":"Japan and the New Silk Road: Diplomacy, Development, and Connectivity By Nikolay Murashkin, Routledge. 2020. pp. 242. £27.74. (B/W Illustrations). ISBN: 9780429024184. EBook Published February 7. 6.","authors":"Eriks Varpahovskis","doi":"10.1111/aspp.12711","DOIUrl":"10.1111/aspp.12711","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44747,"journal":{"name":"Asian Politics & Policy","volume":"16 1","pages":"130-132"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129816230","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}

{"title":"A proposal to strengthen Indonesian democracy","authors":"John G. O'Reilly","doi":"10.1111/aspp.12705","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/aspp.12705","url":null,"abstract":"<p>For centuries, Java-based rulers employed economic, political, and military measures to control the myriad islands lying in the eastern reaches of the Indonesian archipelago. Following Indonesia's transformation into a presidential democracy, the country's leaders modified this strategy and sought to maintain regional control by implementing economic and political decentralization measures on a massive scale. These measures also gave the eastern populations an appreciable influence on presidential elections. However, population projections and recent election data indicate that inhabitants of eastern Indonesia may become electorally marginalized because the region's population growth is being far outpaced by that of Java and Sumatra. Such marginalization could lead to social unrest, separatist movements, and other malevolent behaviors that threaten the country's democracy. To address this scenario, this article suggests that implementing a presidential voting framework based on the US Electoral College could strengthen Indonesia's democracy by significantly empowering voters in the country's eastern provinces.</p>","PeriodicalId":44747,"journal":{"name":"Asian Politics & Policy","volume":"15 3","pages":"520-547"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50119224","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}

{"title":"Media analysis of the abrogation of Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir","authors":"Aditi Dubey,&nbsp;Satyanshu Sharma,&nbsp;Kartikey Shukla","doi":"10.1111/aspp.12701","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/aspp.12701","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44747,"journal":{"name":"Asian Politics & Policy","volume":"15 3","pages":"548-551"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50119225","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}

{"title":"Media coverage of Indonesia's new criminal law","authors":"Stency Mariya Mark","doi":"10.1111/aspp.12707","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/aspp.12707","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44747,"journal":{"name":"Asian Politics & Policy","volume":"15 3","pages":"552-555"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50147983","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}

{"title":"Beyond essentialism: Knowledge production in Southeast Asian social science","authors":"Sarah Shair-Rosenfield,&nbsp;Aries A. Arugay","doi":"10.1111/aspp.12695","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/aspp.12695","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;How do disciplines such as political science, public policy, and international relations understand, adapt to, and potentially reform gendered processes of knowledge production and dissemination? And within Asia, are there special or specific aspects of this question that merit closer consideration and concern? We wanted to confront and engage with these questions regarding a particular aspect of how scholarly practices are gendered: the ways in which gender-based differences lead to biases in academic publishing and subsequent long-term career success. With a generous grant from the British Academy (grant number WW21100175), we convened a series of writing workshops for early career researchers (ECRs) in the social sciences from and based in Southeast Asia from 2021 to 2022.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Titled “Beyond Essentialism,” the writing workshops took as a motivating objective to encourage, help develop, and eventually showcase scholarly works of female ECRs from Southeast Asia in the social sciences &lt;i&gt;regardless of whether the works themselves touched on or engaged with issues of gender&lt;/i&gt;. We wanted to move beyond long-standing assumptions, in the social sciences and within Asia, that female scholars study issues related to women and gender, traditionally come from disciplinary backgrounds such as sociology and history, and orient themselves to particular methodological approaches and fieldwork environments.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The primary goal of these workshops was to help our ECRs learn about the academic publishing process from editors and established scholars from, working in, and/or with expertise on the region. A complementary goal was to help expand their understanding of related processes such as grant-writing, seeking tenure and promotion, developing regional partnerships, balancing different work commitments, and achieving their desired work–life balance. The first two workshops, held virtually due to ongoing restrictions from the COVID-19 pandemic in June 2021 and February 2022, consisted exclusively of female ECRs alongside both female and male editors and established scholars. The third and final workshop, held in person in Manila, the Philippines in September 2022, consisted of a mixed-gender group of ECRs alongside both female and male editors and established scholars.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Our primary and complementary goals were not based on exclusively gendered considerations. The idea was not to provide women ECRs confidential information that male ECRs could not also benefit from, although there are certainly some common gender-based differences facing ECRs that we addressed, such as managing academic career demands alongside the social expectations associated with caregiving and raising a family. Instead, the design of all workshop spaces was intended to achieve gender inclusivity &lt;i&gt;in recognition of the fact that female ECRs often incur significant disadvantages that may be easier to rectify in spaces largely or nearly entirely comprised of women&lt;/i&gt;. In shor","PeriodicalId":44747,"journal":{"name":"Asian Politics & Policy","volume":"15 2","pages":"161-163"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/aspp.12695","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50137562","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Asserting civic space of micro religious minorities: Evidence from Indonesia","authors":"Hurriyah","doi":"10.1111/aspp.12685","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/aspp.12685","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Studies on religious discrimination have focused on the nature, causes, and dynamics of repression, asserting that perceived threats and cross-cutting influences of religious ideology and rational calculation are predictors for governmental discrimination against religious minorities. Yet, research on how the dynamic interplay of repression and pushback shapes the contestation between governments and minorities is lacking. This article explores this issue with a case study of a small indigenous religion group in culturally heterogenous Indonesia. Building on civic space theory, this article argues for the importance of coping strategies in resisting state-led discrimination and asserting civic space. This article carefully examined complex micro dynamics while also offering new insights to better understand the interplay between repression and pushback in the context of religious freedom.</p>","PeriodicalId":44747,"journal":{"name":"Asian Politics & Policy","volume":"15 2","pages":"185-204"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50150242","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}

{"title":"Introducing the Philippine Electoral Violence (PEV) data set: Uncovering trends, targets, and perpetrators of election-related violence during the 2013–2019 elections","authors":"Imelda Deinla,&nbsp;Kier Jesse Ballar,&nbsp;Renner Paul Refani,&nbsp;Jurel Yap","doi":"10.1111/aspp.12690","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/aspp.12690","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Election-related violence (ERV) is a recurring concern in the Philippines—considered to be one of the most violent countries in Asia. National and midterm elections which happen every 3 years are the most violent. As such, a thorough analysis on the nature of ERVs in the country is necessary to address the causes facilitating electoral violence. While there have been several ERV studies in the Philippines after the post-1986 democratization period, this article is the first that looks at electoral violence data at both the individual and aggregate levels. This study examines incidences of ERV in the Philippines from 2013 to 2019 by creating a novel incident-level data set, the Philippine Electoral Violence data set, constructed from online media reports. A total of 394 incidents were found over the three election periods covered in the data set, which includes at least one incident in 65 out of the 81 provinces in the country.</p>","PeriodicalId":44747,"journal":{"name":"Asian Politics & Policy","volume":"15 2","pages":"249-273"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50129522","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}