Doh Chull Shin

Confucianism and Democratization in East Asia

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examines core Confucian legacies and their impacts on civic and political orientations in six Confucian countries: China, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan and Vietnam.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 378
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 547g
• ISBN-13: 9781107631786
• ISBN-10: 1107631785
• Artikelnr.: 34229691

Autorenporträt

Doh Chull Shin is Jack W. Peltason Scholar in Residence at the Center for the Study of Democracy at the University of California, Irvine. He is the founder of the Korea Democracy Barometer and a co-founder of the Asian Barometer. His recent books include The Quality of Life in Confucian Asia (2010), How East Asians View Democracy (2008), Citizens, Democracy, and Markets around the Pacific Rim (2006) and Mass Politics and Culture in Democratizing Korea (Cambridge, 2000).

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Confucianism and Confucian East Asia: 1. The evolution of Confucian East Asia and its cultural legacies
2. The Confucian Asian values thesis
Part II. Upholding Confucian Values: 3. Confucianism as a hierarchical way of life
4. Confucianism as a government of paternalistic meritocracy
Part III. Engaging in Civic Life: 5. Communitarianism and civic activism
6. Familism and civic orientations
Part IV. Embracing Democracy: 7. Conceptions of democracy
8. Support for democracy
Part V. Final Thoughts: 9. Reassessing the Confucian Asian values debate.