Product Description: The proliferation of regional institutions and initiatives in Asia over the past decade is unmatched in any other region of the world. The authors in this collection explore the distinctive features of these institutions by comparing them for the first time to the experience of other regions; from the elaborate institution-building of Europe to the more modest regional projects of the Americas...read more

Product Description: Conventional wisdom holds that "institutions matter." Here, Andrew MacIntyre reveals exactly how they matter in the developing world. Combining an eye for current concerns in international politics with a deep knowledge of Southeast Asia, MacIntyre explores the impact of institutions on effective governance...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Contributes to the task of specifying the ways in which political arrangements or, more broadly, institutions constrain policy and thus performance, by focusing on the interaction between business and government in a range of industrialized and industrializing countries in Northeast and Southeast Asia...read more

Product Description: "Business and Politics in Indonesia" focuses on the ways in which sections of business attempt to organize themselves to secure a voice in the policy-making process and it throws light upon key elements of the political system. It puts forward an argument which challenges the prevailing view that the government is able to control the political system tightly...read more