...Yoon Ah Oh In 2022, Ferdinand Marcos Jr., the son and namesake of the late dictator, won a landslide victory in the presidential election after campaigning largely on nostalgia for the Philippines’ authoritarian past and perceived former greatness. The country was finally able to reopen from COVID...

...Hyun-Chool Lee; Alexandre Repkine We use spatial econometrics on a unique data set covering 229 Korean regions to analyze the outcome of Korea’s 2017 presidential election. We see strong statistical evidence of spatial correlation, suggesting that neighboring regions vote similarly, which...

... enterprise. There were signs that Mongolia was becoming less active in engaging its third neighbors. © 2018 by The Regents of the University of California 2018 presidential election Erdenet corruption mining IMF bailout promissory politics ambassadors foreign policy URADYN E. BULAG Mongolia...

...Piyadasa Edirisuriya Mahinda Rajapaksa became the president of Sri Lanka in 2005 and ruled the country until his unexpected defeat in the presidential election of 2015. He crushed the militant and very powerful Tamil separatist group, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, by military force in 2009...

...Dennis V. Hickey; Emerson M. S. Niou The opposition Democratic Progressive Party won decisive victories in the Legislative Yuan and presidential elections. Despite these victories, 2016 proved to be a difficult year for Taiwan’s new ruling party. As 2016 drew to a close, polls showed that most...

... relations, however, the island was plagued by partisan gridlock, a stagnating economy, and political unrest. Most anticipated a Democratic Progressive Party victory over the ruling Kuomintang in the January 2016 presidential election. But few could predict what kind of fallout the election might generate...

...Jeonghun Min This article examines the impact of the “BBK” scandal on the 2007 Korean presidential election. Voters continue to support the “corrupt” candidate after the scandal, treating it as just one of the determinants for vote choice. The findings show that the implicit trading thesis applies...

.... Emails: < [email protected] >, < [email protected] >. © 2013 by The Regents of the University of California 2013 presidential election rebalancing reform Ahn syndrome middle-power diplomacy YUL SOHN AND WON-TAEK KANG South Korea in 2012 An Election Year under Rebalancing...

...Ming-Tong Chen Developments in Taiwan's politics, economy, society, and external relations in 2011 were closely tied to the presidential election contest. In the months leading up to the election, incumbent President Ma Ying-jeou held a slight lead in the polls over DPP Chairwoman Tsai Ing-wen...

... in their neighbor's development, Mongolia may soon need to review its landlocked status to redefine itself as a land-linked country. © 2010 By the Regents of the University of California H1N1 outbreak Oyu Tolgoi presidential election railways uranium URADYN E. BULAG Mongolia in 2009 From Landlocked...