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. Democratization and state building are fundamental political processes, yet scholars cannot agree on which process should be prioritized in order to put countries on a positive path of institutional development. Where much of the existing literature on the state-democracy nexus focuses on quantitative cross-national data, this volume offers a theoretically grounded regional analysis built around in-depth qualitative case studies. The chapters examine cases of successful democratic consolidation (South Korea, Taiwan), defective democracy (Philippines, Indonesia, East Timor), and autocratic reversal (Cambodia, Thailand). The book's evidence challenges the dominant 'state first, democracy later' argument, demonstrating instead that stateness is neither a sufficient nor a necessary condition for democratic consolidation. The authors not only show that democratization can become trapped in path-dependent processes, but also that the system-level organization of informal networks plays a key role in shaping the outcome of democratic transitions.
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 2010. How East Asians View Democracy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Civil Society and the State in Democratic East Asia
Civil Society and the State in Democratic 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 Civil Society and the State in Democratic East Asia write by David Chiavacci. This book was released on 2020-05-15. Civil Society and the State in Democratic East Asia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume focuses on the new and diversifying interactions between civil society and the state in contemporary East Asia by including cases of entanglement and contention in the three fully consolidated democracies in the area: Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. The book argues that all three countries have reached a new era of post high-growth and mature democracy, leading to new social anxieties and increasing normative diversity, which have direct repercussions on the relationship between the state and civil society. It introduces a comparative perspective in identifying and discussing similarities and differences in East Asia based on in-depth case studies in the fields of environmental issues, national identities as well as neoliberalism and social inclusion that go beyond the classic dichotomy of state vs "liberal" civil society.
Democracy in Eastern Asia
Democracy in Eastern 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 Eastern Asia write by Edmund S. K. Fung. This book was released on 2013-11-20. Democracy in Eastern Asia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With the ‘Asian Century’ now upon us, bringing with it many profound economic and political changes to the world order, it is very timely to assess the state of democracy in the Asian region. Focusing on Eastern Asia, this book provides such a review, highlighting lines of connections between the states and peoples of this complex and dynamic region. Featuring chapters on China, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, the Philippines, Cambodia, and Myanmar, this book provides a detailed analysis of the state of democracy in each country or territory, and shows how each is different and distinctive, whilst simultaneously drawing out important similarities. Further, it provides up to date analysis of political changes in the region relating to the processes of democratization, and, in some cases, to the ongoing quest for democracy. Critically examining the current state of political development in the region, the chapters explore the issues and problems that challenge the region’s governments in terms of democratic transition, democratic consolidation, democratic improvement and good governance. With contributions from leading international scholars, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars interested in Asian politics, and politics and democratization studies more broadly.
Democratization in China, Korea and Southeast Asia?
Democratization in China, Korea and Southeast 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 Democratization in China, Korea and Southeast Asia? write by Kate Xiao Zhou. This book was released on 2014-01-21. Democratization in China, Korea and Southeast Asia? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
