In nations where the executive has budgetary control, how are spending decisions and allocations affected? Is intra-party conflict relevant? This paper sets out to show that institutional rules and leadership roles affect budgetary outcomes. It makes the following argument: If intra-party...

When do militaries in the newly industrialized countries of East and Southeast Asia (hereafter abbreviated as AICs) support their governments, when do they support citizens' challenge of government, and when do they launch coups to seize political control? The extant focus on the military's coup...

Does the lack of competitive elections in the less democratic newly industrialized or industrializing countries (NICs) mean that their governments are unconstrained by their citizens' preferences for economic performance? In this article, I show how non-electoral mechanisms in the less...

How does economic performance and partisanship affect government approval and democratic support in democratizing Asia? Much of extant examination has skirted Asia. This paper extends the study of the effects of economic performance to Asia's democratizing nations of Taiwan, Thailand, South...