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, Weitseng 1972- (Editor), Fu, Hualing 1962- (Editor)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, United Kingdom Cambridge University Press 2023
Subjects:	Police / Political aspects / Asia Law enforcement / Political aspects / Asia Criminal justice, Administration of / Asia
Online Access:	BSB01 UBG01 Volltext
Summary:	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 as a key political institution from a historical perspective and offers comparative insights into the potential of democratic policing and conversely the resilience of authoritarian policing in Asia. The case studies focus on eight jurisdictions: Singapore, Thailand, Hong Kong, Vietnam, China, Taiwan, Japan and South Korea. The theoretical chapters analyse and explain the links between policing and society, the politics of policing and recent police reforms. This volume fills a gap in the literature by exploring the nature of authoritarian policing and how it has transformed and developed the rule of law throughout East and Southeast Asia
Item Description:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 May 2023) 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
Physical Description:	1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 394 Seiten)
ISBN:	9781009042154
DOI:	10.1017/9781009042154