Regime type and beyond : the transformation of police in Asia /

Policing is legitimized in different ways in authoritarian and democratic states. In East and Southeast Asia, different regime types to a greater or lesser extent determine the power of the police and their complex relationship with the rule of law. This volume examines the evolution of the police a...

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Other Authors: Chen, Weizeng, 1972- (Editor), Fu, Hualing (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023.
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Table of Contents:
  • Mapping the authoritarian and democratic divide : the transformation of policing in East Asia / Hualing Fu and Weitseng Chen
  • Discipline or democracy : the endogeneity of police accountability / Jedidiah Kroncke
  • High policing and human rights lawyering in China / Hualing Fu
  • Transformation in policing minor offending in China / Sarah Biddulph
  • From revolutions to COVID-19 : policing narratives in Vietnam / Trang (Mae) Nguyen
  • Unrestrained but limited : policing vagrancy in authoritarian Seoul / Erik Mobrand
  • Public order, social drama, and legitimate force : policing popular uprisings in Hong Kong and Taiwan, 2014 / Jeffrey T. Martin
  • Adaptive authoritarian policing : a journey from China and Japan to Taiwan / Weitseng Chen
  • Organizational legacies of authoritarian police in post-war Japan / Koichi Nakano
  • Authoritarian policing and democratization : the case of Thailand / Eugénie Mérieau
  • Democratic policing in an authoritarian state? : a historical look at Singapore / Kevin YL Tan
  • Empires collaborate : geopolitics of colonial policing in Hong Kong (1880s-1970s) / Michael Ng
  • The end of soft-style protest policing in a hybrid regime : evidence from Hong Kong / Peng Wang, Paul Joosse and Lok Lee Cho
  • Authoritarian police and policing East Asia : scope, patterns, and paradoxes / Jacques deLisle.