Central-local relations in Asian constitutional systems / [edited by] Andrew Harding and Mark Sidel.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Analysing central-local relations in Asian constitutional systems : decentralising power in 21st-century Asia / Andrew Harding and Mark Sidel -- Legalising central-local relations in China / Zhang Qianfan -- Evolving central-local relations in a contested constitutional democracy : the case of Taiwan / Jiunn-rong Yeh -- Central-local relations and the constitutional discourse on political decentralisation in 21st-century Vietnam / Bui Ngoc Son -- Central-local relations in Indonesia : reforming the integralist state / Simon Butt -- Ethnic rights and constitutional change : the recognition of ethnic nationalities in Myanmar/Burma / Melissa Crouch -- The role of the central government and local government in times of crisis : Japan's experience after the Great East Japan Earthquake disaster / Shigenori Matsui -- Local democracy in a multi-layered constitutional system : Malaysian local government reconsidered / Andrew Harding.