Authoritarian policing could be resilient and coexist with various types of polity including democracy. This essay aims to discuss how authoritarian policing in Taiwan, with its origins in China and Japan, operated and evolved in various periods of post-WWII Taiwan, including the period of...

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Introduction -- 1. The Processes of Cross-Societal Emulation -- 2. The Police -- 3. The Postal System -- 4. The Newspaper -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index

Using data from Germany, Japan, UK, and the U.S., we explore possible threshold cointegration in nominal short- and long-run interest rates with corresponding inflation rates. Traditional cointegration implies perfect mean reversion in real rates and hence confirms the Fisher hypothesis....