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

This study explores a new modelling approach that bridges the gap between multilateral country-level data and the bilateral-model based, goods-market specific purchasing power parity (PPP) hypothesis. Under this approach, PPP is embedded in latent common factors, extractable from a large set of...

The first part of this paper outlines the concept of democratic accountability of central banks, and compares the legal accountability of the ECB with some other central banks (Bank of Canada, Bank of Japan, Bank of England and the Federal Reserve System). In the second part, we present a theory...