New Book Edited by Po Jen Yap & Rehan Abeyratne : Routledge Handbook of Asian Parliaments (Routledge)

Routledge Handbook of Asian Parliaments
Edited By
Po Jen Yap & Rehan Abeyratne

Routledge

Published in March 2023

408 pp.

Book Description: This Handbook showcases the rich varieties of legislatures that exist in Asia and explains how political power is constituted in seventeen jurisdictions in East, Southeast and South Asia.

     Legislatures in Asia come in all stripes. Liberal democracies co-exist cheek by jowl with autocracies; semi-democratic and competitive authoritarian systems abound. While all legislatures exist to make law and confer legitimacy on the political leadership, how representative they are of the people they govern differs dramatically across the continent, such that it is impossible to identify a common Asian prototype. Divided into thematic and country-by-country sections, this handbook is a one-stop reference that surveys the range of political systems operating in Asia. Each jurisdiction chapter examines the structure and composition of its legislature, the powers of the legislature, the legislative process, thereby providing a clear picture of how each legislature operates both in theory and in practice. The book also thematically analyses the following political systems operating in Asia: communist regimes, liberal democracies, dominant party democracies, turbulent democracies, presidential democracies, military regimes, and protean authoritarian rule.

     This handbook is a vital and comprehensive resource for scholars of constitutional law and politics in Asia.

New Book: The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Administrative Law (co-edited by Eric Ip)

The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Administrative Law

Edited by Peter Cane, Herwig C H Hofmann, Eric C Ip, and Peter L Lindseth

Oxford University Press

Published in December 2020

1,168 pp.

Abstract: The comparative study of administrative law has a long history dating back more than 200 years. It has enjoyed a renaissance in the past 15 years or so and now sits alongside fields such as comparative constitutional law and global administrative law as a well-established area of scholarly research. This book is the first to provide a broad and systematic view of the subject both in terms of the topics covered and the legal traditions surveyed. In its various parts it surveys the historical beginnings of comparative administrative law scholarship, discusses important methodological issues, examines the relationship between administrative law and regime type, analyses basic concepts such as 'administrative power' and 'accountability', and deals with the creation, functions, and control of administrative power, and values of administration. The final part looks to the future of this young sub-discipline.
     In this volume, distinguished experts and leaders in the field discuss a wide range of issues in administrative law from a comparative perspective. Administrative law is concerned with the conferral, nature, exercise, and legal control of administrative (or 'executive') governmental power. It has close links with other areas of 'public law', notably constitutional law and international law. It is of great interest and importance not only to lawyers but also to students of politics, government, and public policy. Studying public law comparatively helps to identify both similarities and differences between the way government power and its control is managed in different countries and legal traditions.

    HKU Law colleagues contributed to three chapters of this important work co-edited by Eric Ip: Ch 4 "A Chinese Tradition" by Albert Chen, Ch 14 "Parliamentary Regimes" by Eric Ip, and Ch 17 "Authoritarian Regimes" by Po Jen Yap.