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Aspalter asserts that the belief that the development of high standard welfare states is primarily based on the ideology that pro-welfare, mostly leftwing, parties dominate welfare state literature and common thought in the Western world. Instead, in this examination of the welfare states of East Asia, Aspalter and his contributors show that they grew as naturally as they did in most Western countries, but that the reasons for this are other than pro-welfare ideologies. The five welfare states-Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore-are residual welfare states with low levels of w

The individual in international law — Aliens — Expulsion of — Procedure — Whether expulsion amounts to disguised extradition — Handing over to border police of State which had originally sought extradition and subsequently withdrawn request — The law of the Netherlands

Today state-building processes go on in many parts of the world. In this article I look at Russia's political development through the prism of state-building, with a focus on Putin's state-building strategy and the factors that have made its realization possible. I argue that throughout the duration of his reign Putin distinguished himself as a vigorous and effective state-builder with a clearly defined state-building strategy. The paper examines his three-staged strategy: the weakening of Yeltsin's "ruling coalition" and the accumulation of resources; administrative reforms and policy changes; nation-building.

AbstractTroubled by actions of the Donald Trump administration, some academics have defended the administrative state. This may be a mistake. The scholarly definition of the administrative state has shifted over decades, and today scholarly usage of the term often diverges substantially from popular usage. When academics invoke the concept, they may unwittingly trigger negative associations in the minds of nonacademics and defeat their own cause. This mistake is easily avoided, because academics often do not need to talk about the administrative state at all. Research would be improved by using different terms to describe three distinct ideas: the state, administrative systems within the state, and the administrative state, which is best understood as a type of state that emerged at a specific moment in American history. If academics want to defend the public service in the realm of politics, it would be better to do so in those terms, rather than using a phrase that often triggers fears about big and irresponsible government.

Islam and the secular state in Indonesia -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- 1. Islamic Ideology and Utopias -- 2. Muslim Responses to Political Change -- 3. Model 1: Islamic Democratic State -- 4. Model 2: Religious Democratic State -- 5. Model 3: Liberal Democratic State -- 6. Continuity and Discontinuity of the Models -- 7. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.

In October 1987 Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad launched "Operation Lallang", a police crackdown closing three newspapers and detaining over one hundred politicians, opposition leaders, social activists, environmentalists and academics. Unlike previous detentions, the repression in 1987 was without precedent. After briefly discussing state authoritarianism theory, the author examines the foundations for the authoritarian state in Malaysia, the crisis of state monopoly capitalism and the structure of state authoritarianism. (DÜI-Sen)

The Rwandan genocide of 1994 has been partly attributed by some commentators to state weakness or collapse, and the weakness or collapse has in turn been partly attributed to the policies of the World Bank and the IMF. Neither argument is valid, and to advance them is to misunderstand the extent to which state power is a persistent and potent force in Africa and elsewhere, and also the extent to which the World Bank and IMF buttress that power (despite their own rhetoric of 'rolling back' the state). The first section of this article outlines the centrality of state power to an analysis of Rwanda in general and of the preparations for genocide in particular, while the following section demonstrates how the World Bank lent material and discursive support to a repressive and ultimately genocidal state apparatus. The concluding section offers some explanation of why the World Bank adopts such policies.

Philip Roeder's Where Nation-states Come From: Institutional Change in the Age of Nationalism identifies a causal relationship between the creation of segment states within a country's borders and the heightened likelihood of both nation-state crises and state disintegration. This paper provides a summary of the key aspects of Roeder's theoretical argument. It also introduces the four country case studies that appear later in this volume, considering how they may serve as a means to evaluate the degree to which Roeder's theory provides an accurate depiction of the political dynamics within countries that contain segment states. Adapted from the source document.

The idea of the State as embodying moral virtue has a long, mostly inwardly focussed history. In international relations thought, sporadic Liberal explorations of the state as a 'good international citizen' have been vulnerable to Realist scepticism or dismissal. The Cold War's end saw a revival of Liberal enthusiasm for the Good State, but the translation of this into the foreign policies of key Western states generated new lines of critique focussing on the underlying universalism. Drawing upon aspects of much less-discussed Scandinavian internationalist discourse, the possibility of a more modest, open and thus sustainable understanding of the Good State is explored. Adapted from the source document.