Political Cultures In Asia And Europe

Author : Jean Blondel,Takashi Inoguchi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2006-09-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134138845

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Political Cultures in Asia and Europe by Jean Blondel,Takashi Inoguchi Pdf

This book is a study of the attitudes to political and social life among the citizens of eighteen countries in Western Europe, East and Southeast Asia. Drawing on data from the largest cross-national survey on political culture for the last half a century, this book assesses how political culture differs across the two regions and whether this can be drawn back to a profound difference in basic societal values, or ‘Asian values’. Examining geographical, religious and socio-economic factors, the authors discuss whether there genuinely is a common political value in the two regions or a profound difference as these countries move towards modernity. This original and comprehensive study of the values, norms and beliefs held by citizens of the East and West will appeal to students and scholars of political culture and comparative politics, as well as Asian and European politics.

Author : Russell J. Dalton,Doh Chull Shin,To-chʻŏl Sin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2006-11-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0199297258

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Citizens, Democracy, and Markets Around the Pacific Rim by Russell J. Dalton,Doh Chull Shin,To-chʻŏl Sin Pdf

East Asia is one of the most dynamic areas of political change in the world today-what role do citizens play in these processes of change? Drawing upon a unique set of coordinated public opinion surveys conducted by the World Values Survey, this book provides a dramatically new image of the political cultures of East Asia. Most East Asian citizens have strong democratic aspirations, even in still autocratic nations. Most East Asians support liberal market reforms, even in nationswhere state socialism has been dominant. The books findings thus provide a new perspective on the political values of Asian publics. We demonstrate that the dramatic socioeconomic changes of the past several decades have transformed public opinion, altering many of the social norms traditionallyidentified with Asian values, and creating public support for further political and economic modernization of the region. Political culture in East Asia is not an impediment to change, but creates the potential for even greater democratization and marketization.Comparative Politics is a series for students and teachers of political science that deals with contemporary government and politics. The General Editors are Max Kaase, Professor of Political Science, Vice President and Dean, School of Humanities and Social Science, International University Bremen, Germany; and Kenneth Newton, Professor of Comparative Politics, University of Southampton. The series is produced in association with the European Consortium for Political Research.

Author : Oleg Pakhomov
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 981190779X

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The Political Culture of East Asia by Oleg Pakhomov Pdf

This book explores the phenomenon of total power in East Asia, with particular attention to China, Korea, and Japan. It shows how total power enables an examination of regional experience as a part of global context in order to demarcate the connections with other countries and regions that have similar political cultures, such as those in Central Asia, the Middle East, and East Africa. Moreover, it elucidates that the phenomenon of total power unpacks the interrelations not only between different countries, but also between political, economic, religious, or cultural aspects of the region as a whole, and of each country in particular. This book takes East Asia as a classic example of where total power has achieved the highest forms of development during traditional periods in the form of absolute economic dependence of society on the state, ideologically enshrined by a system of moral obligations toward supreme power that allowed for the establishment of a monopoly on forced labour, and the appropriation and distribution of social products. The author emphasizes the importance of exploring the tradition of total power with reference to the ongoing global crisis of European democracy. In doing so, the book shows that democratization has not brought qualitative changes to the political culture of East Asia. An essential interdisciplinary read for scholars studying political science, particularly East-West relations, this book situates East Asian political culture within a global context.

Author : Geir Helgesen,Søren Risbjerg Thomsen
Publisher : Nordic Institute of Asian Studies
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : UCSC:32106018891363

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Politics, Culture and Self by Geir Helgesen,Søren Risbjerg Thomsen Pdf

Globalization may be undermining Kipling's assertion that "East is East and West is West," but arguably this is more in the realms of technological advances and consumer behavior than political culture. In the latter area, much is still made of the contrasts between Eastern culture (characterized by collectivism and belief in authority) and Western culture (characterized by individualism and belief in democracy). Such comfortable assumptions will be shattered by readers of Politics, Culture and Self.This volume indeed confirms that differences between East Asia and northern Europe do exist. However, it also points to major similarities (e.g., regarding social harmony and the role of the family in society) as well as significant contrasts mirrored within the two regions(e.g. concerning interpersonal and institutional trust).

Author : P. W. Preston
Publisher : Springer
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137572219

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Political Cultural Developments in East Asia by P. W. Preston Pdf

This book offers an interpretive and critical comparative politics analysis of the post-1945 development trajectory of the broad East Asian region and its component countries. The discussion considers the region and its countries in terms of their historical legacies (colonialism, war and the preoccupation with development) and argues that each country has constructed their own way of ordering political life, each created its own political logic. Arguing that it is an error to judge these countries’ performance against the model of Europe or America, Preston discusses the era of expansionist colonialism, the episode of breakdown in highly destructive regional warfare in the early twentieth century and the subsequent diverse records of China (with its party-state turned towards a nominal state-socialism), Hong Kong (confronting the problems of living with distant masters), Singapore (with its elite directed national building) and Thailand (mired in elite-resistance to popular political reform).

Author : Michael D. Barr
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2003-08-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134472321

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Cultural Politics and Asian Values by Michael D. Barr Pdf

Cultural Politics and Asian Values looks at the political, cultural and religious background of East and Southeast Asian societies and those of 'the West', with a view to seeing how they are affecting contemporary national and international politics: democratization, the international human rights discourse, NGOs and globalisation. The book surveys the political history and pre-history of the 'Asian values' debate, taking it up to the era of Megawati Sukarnoputri, Chen Shui-bian and Kim Dae-jung. In chapters on Confucianism, Buddhism, Islam, Christianity and liberalism, Barr explores the histories and conceptual essences of the world religions involved in or affected by the debate.

Author : Stephanie Lawson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136497254

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Europe and the Asia-Pacific by Stephanie Lawson Pdf

The many points of contact and conflict about culture and identity that exist between Europe and the Asia Pacific are highlighted in this book. This work surveys a variety of issues relating to culture, identity and representation from an interdisciplinary perspective, with contributions from sociology, economics, history, politics, international relations, security studies, museum studies, translation studies and literary and cultural studies. Each brings a different perspective to bear on questions of culture and identity in the contemporary period, and how these relate to the politics of representation.

Author : Jean Blondel,Takashi Inoguchi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2006-09-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134138852

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Political Cultures in Asia and Europe by Jean Blondel,Takashi Inoguchi Pdf

This book is a study of the attitudes to political and social life among the citizens of eighteen countries in Western Europe, East and Southeast Asia. Drawing on data from the largest cross-national survey on political culture for the last half a century, this book assesses how political culture differs across the two regions and whether this can be drawn back to a profound difference in basic societal values, or ‘Asian values’. Examining geographical, religious and socio-economic factors, the authors discuss whether there genuinely is a common political value in the two regions or a profound difference as these countries move towards modernity. This original and comprehensive study of the values, norms and beliefs held by citizens of the East and West will appeal to students and scholars of political culture and comparative politics, as well as Asian and European politics.

Author : Oleg Pakhomov
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789811907784

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The Political Culture of East Asia by Oleg Pakhomov Pdf

This book explores the phenomenon of total power in East Asia, with particular attention to China, Korea, and Japan. It shows how total power enables an examination of regional experience as a part of global context in order to demarcate the connections with other countries and regions that have similar political cultures, such as those in Central Asia, the Middle East, and East Africa. Moreover, it elucidates that the phenomenon of total power unpacks the interrelations not only between different countries, but also between political, economic, religious, or cultural aspects of the region as a whole, and of each country in particular. This book takes East Asia as a classic example of where total power has achieved the highest forms of development during traditional periods in the form of absolute economic dependence of society on the state, ideologically enshrined by a system of moral obligations toward supreme power that allowed for the establishment of a monopoly on forced labour, and the appropriation and distribution of social products. The author emphasizes the importance of exploring the tradition of total power with reference to the ongoing global crisis of European democracy. In doing so, the book shows that democratization has not brought qualitative changes to the political culture of East Asia. An essential interdisciplinary read for scholars studying political science, particularly East-West relations, this book situates East Asian political culture within a global context.

Author : P W Preston
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1997-07-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781849206884

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Political/Cultural Identity by P W Preston Pdf

This interdisciplinary book overviews political and cultural identity in the context of changes across the political landscape. These changes - from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the recent Islamic revival - have profoundly altered the received ideas that define political cultures throughout the world. In this context the author draws together the diverse strands of literature to throw light on the impact on identity of a changing global environment. Peter Preston analyzes political, cultural and economic identities which lie at the centre of individual actions and social structure. This analysis is fleshed out by a detailed examination of specific regional cases, including: the realignment of Europe; the sharp rise of Pacific Asia; and the Americas after NAFTA.

Author : Lucian W. Pye,Mary W. Pye
Publisher : Belknap Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN : UCSD:31822003628955

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Asian Power and Politics by Lucian W. Pye,Mary W. Pye Pdf

Pye reconceptualizes Asian political development as a product of cultural attitudes about power and authority. He contrasts the great traditions of Confucian East Asia with the Southeast Asian cultures and the South Asian traditions of Hinduism and Islam, and explores the national differences within these larger civilizations.

Author : Takashi Inoguchi,Ian Marsh
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780415399883

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Globalisation, Public Opinion and the State by Takashi Inoguchi,Ian Marsh Pdf

This is first integrated book-length account of citizen responses to the new global order. Based on a comprehensive survey, administered at the end of 2000, in nine European and nine Asian countries, this book demonstrates the diverse responses to globalization, within, and between, two of the world's major – and most globally integrated – regions. Globalization, Public Opinion and the Stateis a pioneering empirical study, drawing on 18,000 interviews across these 18 European and Asian countries supported by the Japanese Ministry of Education. The Asian-Europe Survey is one of the largest of its kind ever conducted, and provides the book with a wealth of novel data on public opinion and social attitudes that identify the linkages between national/regional policy responses and the political and policy orientations of the publics affected. The book uses theoretical insights to situate these public responses and reactions to globalization; and it addresses one question in particular: do nation states matter in how citizens come to view regional and global engagement? Rather than offering another theory about globalization, this book presents much-needed empirical findings that help us decide between arguments about the public impact of globalization cross-nationally. This book breaks new ground as there no other comprehensive study in this field.

Author : Michael North
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 0754669378

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Artistic and Cultural Exchanges Between Europe and Asia, 1400-1900 by Michael North Pdf

Traditionally, relations between Europe and Asia have been studied in a hegemonic perspective, with Europe as the dominant political and economic centre. This book focuses on cultural exchange between different European and Asian civilizations, with the r

Author : Peter Wallace Preston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Group identity
ISBN : 1446279332

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Political-cultural Identity by Peter Wallace Preston Pdf

Preston is concerned with the extent to which fundamental changes in the political landscape have altered the received ideas that define political cultures around the world. Issues include the rise of Pacific Asia and the realignment of Europe.

Author : Bertrand Fort
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Asia
ISBN : 9810523645

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Second Year of Cultures and Civilisations Dialogue, 2004/2005 by Bertrand Fort Pdf