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The President's Dilemma in Asia provides one of the first comprehensive and comparative theory of presidential government formation. In the authoritarian era, presidents had greater control over key institutional actors in the process, such as the legislature, the ruling party, and the bureaucracy. However, after democratic transition, they have to navigate competing pressures from these political institutions. This book highlights the major trade-off that presidents of new democracies face in their relationship with the different political institutions, the so-called

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Don S. Lee is Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Governance and the Department of Public Administration at Sungkyunkwan University. Formerly, he was Leverhulme Trust Fellow and Assistant Professor in the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Nottingham. He received a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, San Diego. His research interests lie at the intersection of the political economy of institutions and public administration and policy

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