East Asian Democratization

Author : Tun-jen Cheng,Yun-han Chu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317559252

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Routledge Handbook of Democratization in East Asia by Tun-jen Cheng,Yun-han Chu Pdf

This handbook provides a comprehensive analysis of the dynamics and prospects of democratization in East Asia. A team of leading experts in the field offers discussion at both the country and regional level, including analysis of democratic attitudes and movements in China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. Evaluating all the key components of regime evolution, from citizen politics to democratic institutions, the sections covered include: • Regional Trends and Country Overviews • Institutions, Elections, and Political Parties • Democratic Citizenship • Democratic Governance • The Political Economy of Democratization Examining the challenges that East Asian emerging democracies still face today, as well as the prospects of the region's authoritarian regimes, the Routledge Handbook of Democratization in East Asia will be useful for students and scholars of East Asian Politics, Comparative Politics, and Asian Studies.

Author : Yun-han Chu,Larry Diamond,Andrew J. Nathan,Doh Chull Shin
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2008-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780231517836

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How East Asians View Democracy by Yun-han Chu,Larry Diamond,Andrew J. Nathan,Doh Chull Shin Pdf

East Asian democracies are in trouble, their legitimacy threatened by poor policy performance and undermined by nostalgia for the progrowth, soft-authoritarian regimes of the past. Yet citizens throughout the region value freedom, reject authoritarian alternatives, and believe in democracy. This book is the first to report the results of a large-scale survey-research project, the East Asian Barometer, in which eight research teams conducted national-sample surveys in five new democracies (Korea, Taiwan, the Philippines, Thailand, and Mongolia), one established democracy (Japan), and two nondemocracies (China and Hong Kong) in order to assess the prospects for democratic consolidation. The findings present a definitive account of the way in which East Asians understand their governments and their roles as citizens. Contributors use their expert local knowledge to analyze responses from a set of core questions, revealing both common patterns and national characteristics in citizens' views of democracy. They explore sources of divergence and convergence in attitudes within and across nations. The findings are sobering. Japanese citizens are disillusioned. The region's new democracies have yet to prove themselves, and citizens in authoritarian China assess their regime's democratic performance relatively favorably. The contributors to this volume contradict the claim that democratic governance is incompatible with East Asian cultures but counsel against complacency toward the fate of democracy in the region. While many forces affect democratic consolidation, popular attitudes are a crucial factor. This book shows how and why skepticism and frustration are the ruling sentiments among today's East Asians.

Author : Larry Diamond,Marc F. Plattner,Yun-han Chu
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781421409696

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Democracy in East Asia by Larry Diamond,Marc F. Plattner,Yun-han Chu Pdf

Democratization scholars believe that the next regional wave of transitions to democracy may unfold in East and Southeast Asia. In their introduction to the 1998 edition of Democracy in East Asia, Larry Diamond and Marc F. Plattner predicted that East Asia, with its remarkable diversity of political regimes, economies, and religions, would likely be the most critical arena in the global struggle for democracy, a prediction that has proven prescient. Although the recent political upheavals in the Middle East have understandably grabbed the world’s attention, there is reason to doubt whether the overthrow of some authoritarian regimes there will lead to the establishment of stable democracies any time soon. On the other hand, East Asia, the world’s most populous and economically dynamic region, already boasts several consolidated democracies and provides a fascinating laboratory for studies of both authoritarian resilience and the prospects for democratization. This updated volume, which features contributions by distinguished scholars in East Asian studies, will be welcomed by instructors and students in the field, particularly as U.S. foreign policy is in the process of undertaking a “pivot” toward Asia. Democracy in East Asia offers a comprehensive treatment of the political landscape in both Northeast and Southeast Asia, including discussions of China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, and Burma (Myanmar). Contributors: Larry Diamond, Marc F. Plattner, Francis Fukuyama, Minxin Pei, Yun-han Chu, Hyug Baeg Im, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Dan Slater, Martin Gainsborough, Don Emmerson, Edward Aspinall, Mark Thompson, Benjamin Reilly, Joseph Wong, Chong-Min Park, Yu-tzung Chang

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Cambria Press
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781621969426

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Democratization in Confucian East Asia: Citizen Politics in China, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, and Vietnam by Anonim Pdf

Author : Edward Friedman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000304688

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The Politics Of Democratization by Edward Friedman Pdf

This collection explores democratic transitions in East Asia, arguing against the standard wisdom that European or Christian value systems and socioeconomic forces are essential for democracy to succeed. Instead the contributors convincingly illustrate that political institutions, which can be built anywhere by skilled coalitions, have the most profound and lasting influence on a stable democratic system. Indeed the East Asian experience reveals truths about Western democratization that are obscured by popular Western mythologies. This partnership of U.S. and Asian scholars has given us the first systematic effort to bring East Asia into the democratization debate in a way that compels one to rethink "the politics of democratization" everywhere. The book therefore is a crucial contribution for all those interested in the broader issues of transition.

Author : Sungmoon Kim
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107049031

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Confucian Democracy in East Asia by Sungmoon Kim Pdf

Confucian Democracy in East Asia explores the unique Confucian reasoning that still exists in much of East Asian culture.

Author : Yun-han Chu
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231145350

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How East Asians View Democracy by Yun-han Chu Pdf

Reporting the results of the 'East Asian Barometer' - a large-scale research project that conducted national-sample surveys in five new democracies, one established democracy and two non-democracies across Asia - this book examines the state of democracy in East Asia.

Author : Aurel Croissant,Olli Hellmann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-21
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108495745

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Stateness and Democracy in East Asia by Aurel Croissant,Olli Hellmann Pdf

Comparative analysis of case studies across East Asia provides new insights into the relationship between state building, stateness, and democracy.

Author : Gilbert Rozman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000360165

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Democratization, National Identity and Foreign Policy in Asia by Gilbert Rozman Pdf

How can democratization move forward in an era of populist-nationalist backlash? Many countries in Asia, and elsewhere, face the challenge of navigating between China and the United States in a period of intensifying polarization in their policies tied to democracy. East Asia has shown the way to democratization in Asia—with Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan linking national identity to democratization. In other parts of Asia, especially Southeast Asia, nationalist governments have tended to move away from democratization, as happened in Hong Kong at China’s insistence. This book investigates how national identity can both help and hinder democratization, illustrated by a series of examples from across Asia. A valuable guide for students and scholars both of democratization and of Asian politics.

Author : Robert W. Compton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2000-09-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780313002915

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East Asian Democratization by Robert W. Compton Pdf

It may be tempting to view political development and democratization in East Asia from a global view and conclude that the contours of democracy will converge throughout the world. However, a close examination of the cultural and economic development of Asian societies suggests a contrary picture. The story of Asia is one of political and economic survival, in which political elites sought to legitimate their authority through the use of both traditional and modern symbols. Traditional communitarian values and the modern symbols of economic growth and materialism coexist in Asian political systems. The stability and legitimacy of Asian governments depend on the ability of political elites to balance these symbols. As globalization proceeds, the standard traditional and modern symbols have waned in their effectiveness. Therefore, democracy as a symbol and practice can provide new sources of legitimacy to these political systems. Compton's Asian political development model is tested with quantitative indicators and through a series of case studies. The three case studies—Japan, South Korea, and Thailand—build on each other through a rigorous historical comparison. While the case studies themselves are interesting, he makes connections to the model and tests the congruence of these cases to the model, and concludes that the model's validity is predicated on the internal environment, including culture and economy. Of particular interest to scholars, students, and researchers involved with comparative and Asian politics, political development, and political culture.

Author : Anek Laothamatas
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789813055575

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Democratization in Southeast and East Asia by Anek Laothamatas Pdf

How has economic development affected the process of democratization in Southeast and East Asia? the contributions in this volume represent one of the first efforts to answer this question from the vantage of the region.In this book, scholars of Southeast and East Asian politics discuss the rise and fall, or stabilization and modification, of democracy amidst socio-economic changes and class transformations in Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Myanmar, Taiwan and South Korea. The approach taken by the contributors gives a fine balance between democratization as a consequence of socio-economic development and as a political-ideological process.

Author : Kate Xiao Zhou,Shelley Rigger,Lynn T. White III
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134512072

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Democratization in China, Korea and Southeast Asia? by Kate Xiao Zhou,Shelley Rigger,Lynn T. White III Pdf

Rapid economic pluralization in East Asia has empowered local and medial groups, and with this change comes the need to rethink usual notions regarding ways in which "democracies" emerge or "citizens" gain more power. Careful examination of current developments in China, Korea, and Southeast Asia show a need for expansion of our understandings of democracy and democratization. This book challenges traditional ways in which political regimes in local as well as national polities are conceived and labeled. It shows from Asian experiences that democracy and its precursors come in more forms than most liberals have yet imagined. In reviewing recent experiences of countries across East Asia, these chapters show that actual democracies and ostensible democratizations there are less like those in the West than the surprisingly consensual and standard political science of democratization suggests. This book first examines the extreme variation of democracy’s meaning in many Asian states that hold contested elections (South Korea, Taiwan, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Thailand). Then it focuses on China. It analyzes a range of grassroots forces driving political change in the People’s Republic, and it finds both accelerators and brakes in China’s political reform process. The contributors show that models for China’s political future exist both within and outside the PRC, including in other East Asian states, in localities and sectors that already are pushing the limits of the powerful, but no longer all-powerful, Chinese party-state. With contributions from leading academics in the field, Democratization in China, Korea, and Southeast Asia? will be of interest to students and scholars of Asian politics, comparative politics, and democratization more broadly.

Author : Samantha F. Ravich
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2000-01-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 052166165X

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Marketization and Democracy by Samantha F. Ravich Pdf

This work, first published in 2000, analyzes the experiences of China, Taiwan, Indonesia, and Korea in moving toward marketization and democracy.

Author : To-chʻŏl Sin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107017337

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Confucianism and Democratization in East Asia by To-chʻŏl Sin Pdf

"This book examines how Confucianism affects the development of democratic citizenship in East Asia. To what extent do East Asians remain attached to the particular way of life and system of government that Confucius and Mencius advocated to bring about a community of grand harmony? How does such attachment to Confucian civic norms affect their engagement in civic affairs? How does attachment to Confucian paternalistic meritocracy affect their commitment to democracy? The book addresses these question in the context of public opinion surveys conducted in East Asia and other regions"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Edward Friedman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 081331805X

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The Politics of Democratization by Edward Friedman Pdf

Highlighting the centrality of political crafting and institution building, this timely collection explores democratic transitions in East Asia, arguing against the conventional wisdom that Western value systems and middle class economies are essential for democracy to succeed.