Informal politics in East Asia / edited by Lowell Dittmer, Haruhiro Fukui, Peter N.S. Lee.

The informal politics of Japanese diet elections: cases and interpretations / Haruhiro Fukui and Shigenko N. Fukai -- Informal politics in Taiwan / T.J.Cheng and T.C. Chou -- The election process and informal politics in South Korea / Soohyun Chon -- Psychocultural foundations of informal groups: the issues ofloyalty, sincerity, and trust / Chung-Fang Yang -- Informal politics among the Chinese Communist Party elite / Lowell Dittmer -- Formal structures, informal politics, and political change in China / Joseph Fewsmith -- The informal politicsof leadership succession in Post-Mao China / Peter Nan-Shong Lee -- Organizational involution and sociopolitical reform in China: an analysis of the work unit / Lowell Dittmer and Lu Xiabo -- Clientage in the PRC's national defense research and development sector / Benjamin C. Ostrov -- North Korean informal politics / Samuel S. Kim -- Informal politics in Vietnam / Douglas Pike.