"This book represents an initial attempt to compare China, Japan, and South Korea, three close geographical and cultural neighbors whose developmental trajectories, though divergent in the past, have been moving more recently toward convergence"--

Intro -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Notes on contributors -- Introduction -- 1. Crisis of Politics in Korea. A Comparative View on the Status of Democracy after Democratization (Sunil Kim) -- 2. The Politics of Local Development Strategies in Contemporary Korea and Japan (Jung Hwan...