HeyJaredAREA Ruhr Book Talk Series
In this podcast series, experts from the Alliance for Research on East Asia (AREA) Ruhr meet up with authors of newly released academic books that deal with East Asia from a wide variety of disciplinary perspectives.
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#8 Kim Vender: »China and Climate Leadership: A Role Theory Analysis« (English) (opens the original)
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In her book “China and Climate Leadership”, Kim Vender explores China’s leadership role in the United Nations climate change negotiations over two decades. Her analysis of international and domestic expectations for climate leadership and China’s role uncovers why there has been a persistent narrative of China’s big transformation from a “climate zero” in Copenhagen to a “climate hero” in Paris. The book thereby provides a more nuanced perspective on the often dichotomous categorisation of China
#7 Amy Catalinac: »Dominance Through Division: Group-Based Clientelism in Japan« (English) (opens the original)
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The governance of Japan presents a puzzle: it is a democracy yet is dominated by a single party that wins almost all elections. Stanger still, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and its policies are not particularly popular with voters. How has this situation arisen, and how is it sustained? Amy Catalinac argues that when politicians compete in electoral districts with discernible voter groups, they can make allocations of central government resources contingent on how those groups vote. Using a
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