Most Recent Articles from Journal of East Asian Studies

• Labor rights in East Asia: progress or regress? 

  This article examines the impact of recent economic and political change on collective and individual labor rights in East Asia. Deploying a new...

  05/01/09 by Teri L. Caraway · More from publication

• Patterns of civilian control of the military in East Asia's new democracies 

  Successful institutionalization of civilian control of the military is a necessary condition for the consolidation of democracy. This is...

  05/01/09 by Aurel Croissant; David Kuehn · More from publication

• The disbursement pattern of Japanese foreign aid: a reappraisal 

  Three perspectives on the determinants of Japan's official development assistance (ODA) program are often represented as distinct, valid...

  05/01/09 by John P. Tuman; Jonathan R. Strand; Craig F. Emmert · More from publication

• Out of the gray: the impact of provincial institutions on business formalization in Vietnam 

  Scholars have long argued that institutional context significantly influences business strategy and economic performance. Research on the...

  05/01/09 by Edmund Malesky; Markus Taussig · More from publication

• Institutional incentives to innovate: an explanation for Singapore's innovation gap 

  Despite having the fifth highest per capita GDP in the world (according to IMF PPP statistics for 2007), and despite numerous government efforts to...

  05/01/09 by Richard W. Carney; Loh Yi Zheng · More from publication

• Wildlife Conservation in China: Preserving the Habitat of China's Wild West 

  Wildlife Conservation in China: Preserving the Habitat of China's Wild West. By Richard B. Harris. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2007. 341 pp. $74.95...

  05/01/09 by Jack Patrick Hayes · More from publication

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