East Asia's New Democracies (eBook, ePUB)

Deepening, Reversal, Non-liberal Alternatives
Redaktion: Chu, Yin-Wah; Wong, Siu-Lun

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Reflects on the contemporary situations in the new democracies of East Asia, and debates on the prospect of introducing liberal democracy to this area. The chapters cover a wide range of cases, including in-depth examination of China, Korea, Taiwan, the Philippines, Thailand, and broad comparisons of other countries.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. April 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136991097
• Artikelnr.: 42983375

Autorenporträt

Yin-wah Chu is Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology, Hong Kong Baptist University. Siu-lun Wong is Professor and Director of the Centre of Asian Studies, University of Hong Kong.

Inhaltsangabe

1. East Asia's New Democracies: An Introduction Yin-wah Chu and Siu-lun
Wong Part 1: Transition, Consolidation, Reversal: Actors Then and Now 2.
Social and Political Developments in China: Challenges for Democratization
Jude Howell 3. Civil Society and Democracy-Making in Taiwan: Reexamining
the Link Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao and Ming-sho Ho 4. The Bottom-Up Nature
of Korean Democratization: Civil Society, Anti-Americanism and Popular
Protest Bruce Cumings 5. Modernization Theory's Last Redoubt:
Democratization in East and Southeast Asia Mark R. Thompson 6. Development
and Change in Korean Democracy since the Democratic Transition in 1987: The
Three Kims' Politics and After Hyug-Baeg Im 7. Thailand's Conservative
Democratization Kevin Hewison Part 2: Democracy in East Asia? Achievements
and Enduring Challenges 8. Democracy and Disorder: Will Democratization
Bring Greater Regional Instability to East Asia? Amitav Acharya 9.
Democracy's Double Edge: Financing Social Policy in Industrial East Asia
Joseph Wong 10. Devolution and Democracy: A Fragile Connection Ledivina V.
Cariño 11. Rule of Law and Democracy: Lessons for China from Asian
Experiences Randall Peerenboom 12. Group Rights and Democracy in Southeast
Asia Beng Huat Chua 13. Diagnosing the Micro Foundation of Democracy in
Asia: Evidence from the AsiaBarometer Survey: 2003-2008 Satoru Mikami and
Takashi Inoguchi