Democracy in East Asia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Democracy in East Asia write by Larry Diamond. This book was released on 2013-02-15. Democracy in East Asia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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
Stateness and Democracy in East Asia
Stateness and Democracy in East Asia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Stateness and Democracy in East Asia write by Aurel Croissant. This book was released on 2020-05-21. Stateness and Democracy in East Asia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Comparative analysis of case studies across East Asia provides new insights into the relationship between state building, stateness, and democracy.
Confucian Democracy in East Asia
Confucian Democracy in East Asia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Confucian Democracy in East Asia write by Sungmoon Kim. This book was released on 2014-02-28. Confucian Democracy in East Asia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Confucian Democracy in East Asia explores the unique Confucian reasoning that still exists in much of East Asian culture.
How East Asians View Democracy
How East Asians View Democracy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook How East Asians View Democracy write by Yun-han Chu. This book was released on 2008-09-01. How East Asians View Democracy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Political Liberalism, Confucianism, and the Future of Democracy in East Asia
Political Liberalism, Confucianism, and the Future of Democracy in East Asia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Political Liberalism, Confucianism, and the Future of Democracy in East Asia write by Zhuoyao Li. This book was released on 2020-04-17. Political Liberalism, Confucianism, and the Future of Democracy in East Asia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book contributes to both the internal debate in liberalism and the application of political liberalism to the process of democratization in East Asia. Beyond John Rawls’ original intention to limit the scope of political liberalism to only existing and well-ordered liberal democracies, political liberalism has the potential to inspire and contribute to democratic establishment and maintenance in East Asia. Specifically, the book has two main objectives. First, it will demonstrate that political liberalism offers the most promising vision for liberal democracy, and it can be defended against contemporary perfectionist objections. Second, it will show that perfectionist approaches to political Confucianism suffer from practical and theoretical difficulties. Instead, an alternative model of democracy inspired by political liberalism will be explored in order to achieve a multivariate structure for citizens to come to terms with democracy in their own ways, to support a neutral state that ensures the establishment and stability of democracy, and to maintain an active public role for Confucianism to prevent it from being banished to the private sphere. This model represents a more promising future for democracy in East Asia.
