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Opposing Power argues that perceptions of regime vulnerability and mutual dependency by opposition elites shape the building of opposition alliances. When electoral autocracies are consistently dominant, opposition parties eschew fully fledged alliances. At best, they allocate only one candidate to contest against the incumbent in each subnational electoral district to avoid splitting the opposition vote. However, when multiple regime-debilitating events strike within a short period of time, thus pushing an incumbent to the precipice of power, opposition elites expect victory, accepting costly compromises to build alliances and seize power. Opposing Power shows how oppositions build these alliances through case study comparisons in East and Southeast Asia—between the Philippines and South Korea in the late 1980s, and between Malaysia and Singapore from 1965 to 2020.

Intro -- Welcome to Fostering - A Guide to Becoming and Being a Foster Carer, Edited by Andy Elvin and Martin Barrow -- Foreword - Lorraine Pascale -- Unorthodox Beginnings - Solomon OB -- Introduction - Andy Elvin -- 1. So You Want to be a Foster Carer? - Bev Pickering -- 2. Becoming a Foster Carer - Andy Elvin -- 3. How Do Children Become Fostered? - Andy Elvin and Louise Cox -- 4. Through the Eyes of the Foster Child - Andy Elvin and numerous foster children -- 5. Your First Placement - Martin Barrow -- 6. Training and Behaviour Management - Martin Clarke -- 7. Allegations - How to Handle Them and What to Expect - Andy Elvin -- 8. Managing Contact - Martin Barrow and Andy Elvin -- 9. The Birth Parents' Perspective - A safeguarding survivor -- 10. Working with the Professional Network - Yvonne Smith, Jon Fayle and Andy Elvin -- 11. Special Guardianship Orders - Andy Elvin and John Simmonds OBE -- 12. Well-Being - Andy Elvin -- 13. Endings - Martin Barrow -- 14. 'Heroes of the State' - The Difference Fostering Can Make - Andy Elvin and Martin Barrow -- Appendix - The Foster Carers' Charter -- Contributors.

This is the first environmental history of China during the three thousand years for which there are written records. It is also a treasure trove of literary, political, aesthetic, scientific, and religious sources, which allow the reader direct access to the views and feelings of the Chinese people toward their environment and their landscape.Elvin chronicles the spread of the Chinese style of farming that eliminated the habitat of the elephants that populated the country alongside much of its original wildlife; the destruction of most of the forests; the impact of war on the environmental transformation of the landscape; and the re-engineering of the countryside through water-control systems, some of gigantic size. He documents the histories of three contrasting localities within China to show how ecological dynamics defined the lives of the inhabitants. And he shows that China in the eighteenth century, on the eve of the modern era, was probably more environmentally degraded than northwestern Europe around this time.Indispensable for its new perspective on long-term Chinese history and its explanation of the roots of China's present-day environmental crisis, this book opens a door into the Chinese past