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Strong Institutions in Weak Polities

State Building in Republican China, 1927-1940

By: Julia C. Strauss

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Strong Institutions in Weak Polities

State Building in Republican China, 1927-1940

By: Julia C. Strauss

This work explores state building and the processes by which supporting state bureaucratic organizations aided the state building effort in Republican China between 1927 and 1940. It suggests that in hostile environments profoundly non-congenial to state building efforts, it is the state organizations that stand the best chance of becoming well institutionalized. This book details the administrative histories and institution-building strategies of three organizations in Republican China dealing with the national civil service, taxation, and foreign affairs.

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Oxford University Press

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0198233426

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9780198233428

Staging Politics

Power and Performance in Asia and Africa

By: Julia C. Strauss,Donal B.Cruise O'Brien

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Staging Politics

Power and Performance in Asia and Africa

By: Julia C. Strauss,Donal B.Cruise O'Brien

This fresh and original study analyses how power presents itself in dramatic performance in these two increasingly economically and politically important continents. Emotion and politics play a hugely important role in the politics of Asia and Africa but, as this book sets out, too much of western political research into the subject concentrates on apparent deficiencies - on the weakness of institutions, defects in the bureaucracy or markets, poor management of elections, absent judicial autonomy. Viewing political performance through Western eyes in this way - where politics is primarily about the naked pursuit of power and interests - can lead to a misunderstanding of how politics actually works in Africa and Asia, where process plays a far more important role. Thus performance, drama and emotion are far more integral to political outcome there than in the West. By concentrating on this new perspective the authors, each a recognised specialist in one or more states in Asia and Africa, avoid this trap and offer a coherent picture of the impact political performance has on the culture and politics of these societies and how they function.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0857717022

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9780857717023

State Formation in China and Taiwan

Bureaucracy, Campaign, and Performance

By: Julia C. Strauss

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State Formation in China and Taiwan

Bureaucracy, Campaign, and Performance

By: Julia C. Strauss

An ambitious comparative study of regime consolidation in the 'revolutionary' People's Republic of China and 'conservative' Taiwan in the early 1950s.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108476864

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9781108476867

State Formation in China and Taiwan

Bureaucracy, Campaign, and Performance

By: Julia C. Strauss

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State Formation in China and Taiwan

Bureaucracy, Campaign, and Performance

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An ambitious comparative study of regime consolidation in the 'revolutionary' People's Republic of China and 'conservative' Taiwan in the early 1950s.

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A Portrait of Julia Strachey

By: Julia Strachey,Frances Partridge

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A Portrait of Julia Strachey

By: Julia Strachey,Frances Partridge

Following Julia Strachey's death, her life-long friend Frances Partridge was presented with an extraordinary assortment of her papers. Combining material from this source and extracts from the correspondence between the two friends, this book presents an account of the life of a remarkable woman.

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0753810972

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Strong Institutions in Weak Polities

Strong Institutions in Weak Polities

Staging Politics

Staging Politics

State Formation in China and Taiwan

State Formation in China and Taiwan

State Formation in China and Taiwan

State Formation in China and Taiwan

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