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"This book compares contemporary civil service systems across East and Southeast Asia, a dynamic region of greater diversity in local administrative tradition, imported models of modern administration, and the character of prevailing political institutions. Featuring chapters on Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, and the Philippines, this book provides a detailed analysis of key aspects of the civil service system, including centralization, recruitment, classification, openness of positions, performance assessment, promotion, training, and senior civil service. It distinguishes four modes of public employment, namely, bureaucratization, professionalization, politicization, and marketization, to develop a conceptual framework for comparing the civil service system at the operational level. The region's contemporary civil service systems appear to be hybrid systems that combine, at varying degree, these modes of public employment, responding to administrative reform pressures. The patterns of public employment across East and Southeast Asia reflect local administrative traditions, imported Western models of administration, and the relative timing of democratization and bureaucratization. With contributions from leading local experts across the region, this book will be invaluable to students, scholars, and practitioners interested in Asian public administration, especially civil service systems"--

This is the first volume ever published to examine the objective and subjective qualities of Korean life from both comparative and dynamic perspectives. It presents non-Western policy alternatives to enhancing the quality of citizens' lives, distinguishing Korea as an Asian model of economic prosperity and political democracy. The book is intended for academics, policy makers and the general public interested in recent developments in Korea

Abstract: From Bangkok to Manila, Taipei, Seoul, and Ulaanbaatar, East Asia's third-wave democracies are in distress. Data from the first and second Asian Barometer Surveys can help us systematically to assess the extent of normative commitment to democracy that citizens feel in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Mongolia, the Philippines, and Thailand. Compared to levels of popular support for democracy, strength of authoritarian detachment, and satisfaction with the performance of democracy observed in other regions, our six East Asian democracies appear on a par with similarly situated societies elsewhere in the world. The lesson is that this form of government must win citizens' support through better performance.

Chang Y. ; Chu Y. ; Park C.: Authoritarian nostalgia in Asia. - S. 66-80 Seligson, M. A.: The rise of populism and the left in Latin America. - S. 81-95 Bratton, M.: Formal versus informal institutions in Africa Rose, R.: Learning to support new regimes in Europe. - S. 111-125

In the current wave of global democratization, South Korea (Korea hereinafter) is widely regarded as one of the most successful examples. Unlike new democracies in Latin America & other regions, Korea has fully restored civilian rule by extricating the military from the political process. A remaining question is whether it has also fully oriented & reoriented ordinary citizens toward democratic politics & away from authoritarianism. This paper addresses this question in an attempt to ascertain the cultural dimension of democratic consolidation. Analyses of data culled from a recent survey of the Korean electorate reveal that more than a decade of democratic rule has made the mass citizenry highly capable of recognizing democracy as a normative & empirical phenomenon. Nonetheless, it has failed to create a citizenry that is fully detached from authoritarianism & fully attached to democracy. On the basis of this finding, we conclude that the consolidation of democratic rule in Korea is likely to be an intergenerational phenomenon. 1 Table, 6 Figures, 32 References. Adapted from the source document.