Abstract
Abstract
This chapter provides key background on the four presidential democracies in Asia, namely South Korea, Taiwan, the Philippines, and Indonesia, concerning the president’s relationship with the four political institutions—the legislature, the ruling party, the party system, and the bureaucracy—and the dynamics of presidential government formation surrounding this relationship. The chapter uses unique information from in-depth interviews with more than forty key members of top political elites, including vice presidents, prime ministers, and ministers from important policy areas, such as foreign affairs, defense, and finance, as well as from archival research undertaken during year-long fieldwork in these countries. This chapter also introduces original data on three decades of presidential government formation and more than 1500 ministerial appointments from the four cases, between their respective years of democratization and 2018, that will be statistically analyzed in the subsequent chapters.
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Oxford University PressOxford
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