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...Eiko Maruko Siniawer The Age of Visions and Arguments: Parliamentarianism and the National Public Sphere in Early Meiji Japan . By Kyu Hyun Kim . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center , 2007 . xviii , 520 pp. $49.50 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian...

..., are needed to investigate this period. Rossabi exhibits great but perhaps misplaced loyalty to certain Mongol informants throughout the book. His heroes and heroines are the parliamentarian Ms. S. Oyun (sister of slain democratic leader Zorig), her relative T. Erdenebileg, journalist L. Nomin, and former...

.... Parliamentarians provided various reasons for their focus on Hindu law. First, many of them felt that as the executive and legislature were largely drawn from Hindus, it would be best for them to change Hindu law and leave changes in the other family laws to the initiative of the concerned groups. Second, others...

... the parliamentarians persistently refused to be- behavior. Nathan postulates fifteen structural have in a statesmanlike manner, the main re- and behavioral characteristics of the factional sponsibility of its failure may lie elsewhere. In system, and proceeds to arrange the historical his account of the political...

... beautifully What beautiful trees Fair Washington's cherries bloom I Fair Washington's cherries are! Two score years they've grown. Think of them always. This poem was inspired by the notice in April 1950 that Mr. Yukio Ozaki, a liberal parliamentarian, now 91, who as Mayor of Tokyo forty years ago sent...

... facilitated the growth and subsequent success of regional political parties. These include political and fiscal decentralization, horizontal decentralization, parliamentarianism, low electoral thresholds, single-member districts, and no cross-regional contestation laws. In turn, he scrupulously explores how...

... a parliamentarian and more an estate manager, a consequence of how grassroots politics has been structured. Meredith Weiss provides a timely analysis of regime durability in Singapore and Malaysia. While the longevity of authoritarian regimes has long been a topic of study in comparative politics, Weiss manages...

... the "healthy" conditions under which such innovations might work and grow. It is a case of "too much and too soon." To students of government, the running debate between rival schools on the relative merits of the cabinet and presidential forms of government, with the parliamentarians championing the former...

..., the bureaucracy, relations between ministers and civil servants, the party system, coalition government, political finance, political inquiries, political corruption, and center-state relations. Some of the chapters are tantalizingly brief and general, and a few especially the chapter on "The Parliamentarian...

... that Idenburg nonetheless suppressed the report even from fellow parliamentarians. He also thought the issue too "dangerous." And this was the period in which Van den Doel finds "the prudent democratising of native society . . ." (p. 302). If this is an example of his aforementioned historical method...

... the chapter on "The Parliamentarian" are based on data gathered several years ago. Some of his observations and predictions need to be modified, or at least reexamined, in the light of recent events in India, especially since Mrs. ...

... as a sectional group, specifically by going a little easier on imperialism, then they would have been happy to be counted as citizens of the nation and members of the Nationalist party. Because it was not, they left the party in droves (Fitzgerald 1989a). Party parliamentarians and journalists also questioned...

... in East Asia. 1 A related tendency has been the call by “political Confucianists” (Bell 2010 ; Fan 2012 ; Jiang 2013 ) to replace Western-style parliamentarianism with an elitist system of representation based more on merit than popular participation. That there is interest in Communist Party...

... the alternate hypothesis, which might follow from Noriko Tamada's work on the same man {Papers on China, v. 21), that it was precisely because Sung's version of parliamentarianism and self-government served gentry aspiration well that his party produced a great electoral victory. The social meaning of Sung's...

... Tamada's work on the same man {Papers on China, v. 21), that it was precisely because Sung's version of parliamentarianism and self-government served gentry aspiration well that his party produced a great electoral victory. The social meaning of Sung's policies (democracy for whom ?) merits greater...

..., which was a Pact membership and, in the West, through rare phenomenon in any event, was puerile membership in the Central Treaty Organiza- and reflected the abysmal ignorance of the tion (Baghdad Pact). The critical role of the parliamentarians. Brohi has referred to most United States in providing...

... membership in the Central Treaty Organiza- and reflected the abysmal ignorance of the tion (Baghdad Pact). The critical role of the parliamentarians. Brohi has referred to most United States in providing military and eco- of them as "uninformed ignoramuses," and the nomic assistance to Pakistan, and other...

... on the acceptability of the Malaysia scheme for Sabah (which curiously occurred in the course of a conference of parliamentarians in Singapore), his running battle with Dato Mustapha in Sabah, his ofifon courtship of the Malayan Alliance, and his remarkable "retirement" from politics that signalled his return...

... the parliamentarians charged with considering this amendment. Some of their remarks, however, were not confined to the text of the constitution. In fact, recalling some of the views initially articulated by Pakistani Hindus during Pakistan's first CA, Mirza Nasir Ahmad (a grandson of Ghulam Ahmad), couched his defense...

... and understand the contents of the odes for graceful and meaningful allusions much as the old-style English parliamentarian had need for a classical education and a knowledge of Latin. The Chinese gentleman of Han Ying's time, however, had to be adept at a kind of modish jiggery-pokery with the words of the odes...