Presidents, Assemblies and Policy-Making in Asia - Hardcover

Which Asian presidents are 'stronger' in terms of their constitutional and partisan authorities? How do they use these authorities to advance their policy agendas? This book answers these questions and is one of the first and most comprehensive analyses of Asia's presidential and semi-presidential democracies. To develop a baseline, it measures the 'strength' of the Asian presidents with regards to their constitutional and partisan powers. Using this two-dimensional strength measure as a common framework, country study chapters on Afghanistan, Indonesia, the Philippines, South Korea, Sri Lanka, and Taiwan analyze how their constitutional and partisan powers are used in actual policy-making processes.

YUKO KASUYA is Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science at Keio University in Tokyo, Japan and Assistant Professor at Yamaguchi Prefectural University in Yamaguchi, Japan. She has published articles in Keio Journal of Politics, Party Politics and Electoral Studies.