Elections in Asia and the Pacific: A Data Handbook: Volume 2: South East Asia, East Asia, and the Pacific - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0199249598 ISBN 13: 9780199249596

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2002

Synopsis

Elections in Asia, written by experts in the field, presents the first-ever compendium of electoral data for all the 62 states in Asia, Australia, and Oceania from their independence to the present. Exhaustive statistics on national elections and referendum are given in each chapter. The two volumes provides the definative resource for historical and cross-national comparisons of elections and electoral system worldwide.

About this title

About the Author

Dieter Nohlen is a Professor of Political Science, University of Heidelberg. Florian Grotz is an Assistant Professor, European Centre of Comparative Government and Public Policy, Berlin. Christof Hartmann is a Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Development Research and Development Policy,
Ruhr University of Bochum.

Review

`Dieter Nohlen is one of the most distinguished scholars in the study of electoral systems and electoral law. He and his collaborators also have done more than anyone else in collecting electoral data - a far from easy task - and this new collection for Asia and the Pacific will be an
indispensable source book for scholars.'
Juan Linz

`These election volumes are a precious, indispensable source of information for cross-national political research, on Asia-Pacific and world-wide. There is no comparable work on the subject.'
Giovanni Satori

`'Elections in Asia and the Pacific represents a major work of reference and analysis that will be invaluable for specialist and generalist alike. Those with expertise in specific regions will be impressed with the way in which each chapter explains the historical, political and legal contexts
within which elections take place and at the range of data provided. In particular the country studies offer not just a simple break down of national election results, but a regional analysis which, even in those countries where elections are constrained, can offer a good indication of differential
levels of support for the regime. For those who wish to take their studies further the bibliographies provide exceptionally good guidance to both official primary sources and to secondary analyses of the subject. A book no student of elections can afford to be without.'
Dr John Anderson, Department of International Relations, University of St Andrews, Scotland

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0199249598
• ISBN 13: 9780199249596
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 876
• Editor: Nohlen Dieter, Grotz Florian, Hartmann Christof