Regime Type and Beyond

Hualing Fu is Professor of Law and holder of the Warren Chan Professorship in Human Rights and Responsibilities at the University of Hong Kong, and currently serves as the Dean of the Faculty of Law. Weitseng Chen is Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law and Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin.

• Part I. Framework: 1. Mapping the authoritarian and democratic divide: the transformation of policing in East Asia Hualing Fu and Weitseng Chen; 2. Discipline or democracy: the endogeneity of police accountability Jedidiah Kroncke; Part II. Authoritarian Policing: Past and Present: 3. High policing and human rights lawyering in China Hualing Fu; 4. Transformation in policing minor offending in China Sarah Biddulph; 5. From revolutions to COVID-19: policing narratives in Vietnam Trang (Mae) Nguyen; 6. Unrestrained but limited: Policing vagrancy in authoritarian Seoul Erik Mobrand; Part III. Democratic Transition and Authoritarian Resilience: 7. Public order, social drama, and legitimate force: policing popular uprisings in Hong Kong and Taiwan, 2014 Jeffrey T. Martin; 8. Adaptive authoritarian policing: a journey from China and Japan to Taiwan Weitseng Chen; 9. Organizational legacies of authoritarian police in post-war Japan Koichi Nakano; 10. Authoritarian policing and democratization: the case of Thailand Eugénie Mérieau; Part IV. The Singapore and Hong Kong Exceptions: 11. Democratic policing in an authoritarian state?: a historical look at Singapore Kevin YL Tan; 12. Empires collaborate: geopolitics of colonial policing in Hong Kong (1880s–1970s) Michael Ng; 13. The end of soft-style protest policing in a hybrid regime: evidence from Hong Kong Peng Wang, Paul Joosse and Lok Lee Cho; Part V. Conclusion: 14. Authoritarian police and policing East Asia: scope, patterns, and paradoxes Jacques deLisle; Index.

'A comprehensive, in-depth and insightful study of policing and its political context in East and Southeast Asia, including the relationship between authoritarian and democratic policing and democratization.' Albert Chen, Cheng Chan Lan Yue Professor and Chair of Constitutional Law, The University of Hong Kong