Constitutionalism in Asia in the Early Twenty-First Century
adopted in November 2013. The chapter shows, for example, that despite the maintenance of one-party rule in contemporary Vietnam ...
military and civilian rule, with recurring cycles of constitution-making, general election, formation of and rule by a constitut ...
Union of Myanmar – the drafting of which actually started in 1993 – was enacted and approved by a referendum, allowing multipart ...
constitutionalism’. 85 When Malaya became independent in 1957 , Singapore was still a British colony. As in Malaya, elections ha ...
the Pacific War. In 1946 , they acquired independence with an American-style political system based on the 1935 constitution, wh ...
As pointed out by Hosen in his chapter in this volume, in the New Order regime only three political parties were allowed to part ...
two-thirds majority of each of its two houses) to amend constitutional provisions that pertain to the ‘basic structure’ of the c ...
failed to stabilise because one of the political parties, the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), began an armed rebellion agains ...
HC is a broad concept which may be applied to most of the other countries covered by this book at various points in time. HC was ...
2 East Asian constitutionalism in comparative perspective Tom Ginsburg* Is there a distinctively East Asian constitutionalism? T ...
to ideas about the state and human rights. 1 We would expect, if “Asian Values” proponents are to be believed, fewer rights in A ...
complex attempts to reconcile the forms of constitutionalism with one-party Leninist states. The hybrid documents also reflect c ...
parliamentary sovereignty. To state the point in an extreme way, Asia is the region of formal parliamentary power, not executive ...
late 1940 s, even though each has in fact undergone substantial amendment. Third, each system has what Yeh and Chang characteriz ...
however, these countries seem to fit in Chen’s model of classical constitutionalism, at least to some degree. Cases that are mor ...
1975 constitution was overwhelmingly ideological in character, extolling Marxism–Leninism–Mao Zedong thought as well as proletar ...
In addition, in keeping with the tradition of each Chinese leader leaving his mark on the Constitution, Chairman Jiang Zemin’s t ...
socialist rule-of-law state. Political observers have focused on the expanding role of the National Assembly, as it has taken ov ...
two others, drawn from the imperial Censorate (which became the Control Yuan) and the examination bureaucracy (which became the ...
Table 1 Regional differences.Rights indices Powers indices Specificity Region n Mean age Overall Political Economic Criminal ...
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