The President's Dilemma in Asia

Prof Don S. Lee (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2024
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-287018-6 (ISBN)

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The President's Dilemma in Asia provides one of the first comprehensive and comparative theory of presidential government formation. In the authoritarian era, presidents had greater control over key institutional actors in the process, such as the legislature, the ruling party, and the bureaucracy. However, after democratic transition, they have to navigate competing pressures from these political institutions. This book highlights the major trade-off that presidents of new democracies face in their relationship with the different political institutions, the so-called “president's dilemma,” and their strategy in dealing with the dilemma.

Existing studies of presidential government formation in new democracies have largely overlooked the entirety of the structure of the political institutions surrounding the president and its impact on the president's government formation strategy. This book offers a view that government formation is a window to understanding how presidents weigh the benefits of appointing ministers representing different political institutions under a variety of given institutional circumstances. The question of which institution presidents attempt to accommodate through government formation is a high stakes one, and addressing it is important, because particular patterns of personnel distribution can influence the kind of policies political leaders adopt and the level of accountability and responsiveness to constituents these policies represent.

Comparative Politics is a series for researchers, teachers, and students of political science that deals with contemporary government and politics. Global in scope, books in the series are characterized by a stress on comparative analysis and strong methodological rigour. The series is published in association with the European Consortium for Political Research. For more information visit: www.ecprnet.eu.

The series is edited by Nicole Bolleyer, Chair of Comparative Political Science, Geschwister Scholl Institut, LMU Munich and Jonathan Slapin, Professor of Political Institutions and European Politics, Department of Political Science, University of Zurich.

Don S. Lee is Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Governance and the Department of Public Administration at Sungkyunkwan University. Formerly, he was Leverhulme Trust Fellow and Assistant Professor in the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Nottingham. He received a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, San Diego. His research interests lie at the intersection of the political economy of institutions and public administration and policy

1: Introduction: The President's Dilemma and Government Formation
2: A Theory of Presidential Government Formation in New Democracies
3: Case Studies: Presidential Government Formation in Asia Compared
4: Legislative Challenges and Presidential Cabinet Choices
5: Intraparty Tension and Presidential Cabinet Selection
6: Interparty Competition and Presidential Cabinet Making
7: Bureaucratic Resistance and Presidential Cabinet Formation
8: Institutional Constraints across Dimensions and Presidential Cabinet Choices
9: Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum	05.06.2024
Reihe/Serie	Comparative Politics
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 240 mm
Gewicht	512 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	0-19-287018-1 / 0192870181
ISBN-13	978-0-19-287018-6 / 9780192870186
Zustand	Neuware