Political Participation In Asia: Typologies Of Political Behavior Across Democratizing States PDF Download

Author: Ginger L Denton
Publisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9814651753
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 238

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This book examines types of political participation in ten Asian countries. The inquiry begins by building on past theories of types of political behavior and who participates in each type. Then six dimensions of political participation are constructed and tested using a survey dataset from the Asian Barometer Survey. The findings from this empirical analysis indicate that Asians also fall into six political behavior types.The analysis continues with an examination of social characteristics (such as age, gender, income, etc.) that help determine with which type of participation one will be involved. After examining participation in the region as a whole, the scope of this book turns to a quantitative investigation of individual countries in Asia.

Author: Ginger L. Denton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political participation
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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Scholars have long studied political behavior in the United States and Western democracies. However, less in known about political participation patterns in the developing world and, more specifically, in Asia. This dissertation examines types of political participation in ten Asian countries. Previous political behavior scholarship in Asia has focused on voter turnout and aggregate level data instead of all types of participation and individual level analysis. The inquiry begins by constructing and testing six dimensions of political participation in a survey dataset from the second wave of the Asian Barometer Survey. A confirmatory factor analysis is utilized to determine exact dimensions of political behavior types that exist in the region. The findings from this analysis indicate that, much like the Western world, Asians also fall into the following political participation types: political interest, voter, communalist, parochial participant, campaigner, and complete activist. The analysis continues with an examination of social characteristics that help deteunine with which type of participation one will be involved. Weighted least squares regression analysis supports theories developed for Western democracies. After examining participation in the region as a whole, the scope of this dissertation turns to an investigation of individual countries in Asia. The same six political participation dimensions are found independently in Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Mongolia, the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, and Thailand. Models are constructed to further test theories related to individual characteristics and their impact on political participation modes. Theories of participation that have been tested for decades in the developed and stable democracies prove to have explanatory power in the emerging democracies of Asia. The implications of the findings are apparent in that this dissertation sheds light on "who participates" not only in voting, but in all forms of participation in Asia. While voting may not necessarily topple a regime, actively participating in protests, demonstrations, and other unconventional methods have helped countries such as Mongolia and the Philippines move towards democratization. Distinguishing between who is involved in such activities can help explain the nature of the political system and whether these actions will encourage democratic consolidation in the region.

Author: Eva Hansson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351622463
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 249

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A combination of economic transformation, political transitions and changes in media have substantially, if incrementally, altered the terrain for political participation globally, particularly in Asia, home to several of the most dramatic such shifts over the past two decades. This book explores political participation in Asia and how democracy and authoritarianism function under neoliberal economic relations. It examines changes that coincide seemingly perversely with a participation explosion: with mass street protests and ‘occupations’, energetic online contention, movements of students and workers, mobilization for and against democracy and more. Organized thematically in three parts – political participation in a ‘post-democratic’ context, changes in the scope and character of political space and the policing of that space – this book analyzes economic, regime and media shifts and how they function in tandem and both within and across states. Closely integrated, comparative and theoretically driven, this book will be of interest to scholars and practitioners in the fields of civil society, contentious politics or social movements, democratization, political economy/development, media and communications, political geography, sociology, comparative politics and Asian politics.

Author: Garry Rodan
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501720120
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 196

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Over the past quarter century new ideologies of participation and representation have proliferated across democratic and non-democratic regimes. In Participation without Democracy, Garry Rodan breaks new conceptual ground in examining the social forces that underpin the emergence of these innovations in Southeast Asia. Rodan explains that there is, however, a central paradox in this recalibration of politics: expanded political participation is serving to constrain contestation more than to enhance it. Participation without Democracy uses Rodan’s long-term fieldwork in Singapore, the Philippines, and Malaysia to develop a modes of participation (MOP) framework that has general application across different regime types among both early-developing and late-developing capitalist societies. His MOP framework is a sophisticated, original, and universally relevant way of analyzing this phenomenon. Rodan uses MOP and his case studies to highlight important differences among social and political forces over the roles and forms of collective organization in political representation. In addition, he identifies and distinguishes hitherto neglected non-democratic ideologies of representation and their influence within both democratic and authoritarian regimes. Participation without Democracy suggests that to address the new politics that both provokes these institutional experiments and is affected by them we need to know who can participate, how, and on what issues, and we need to take the non-democratic institutions and ideologies as seriously as the democratic ones.

Author: Richard Gunther
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191525227
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 436

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This book presents the results of systematic comparative analyses of electoral behavior and support for democracy in 13 countries on four continents. It is based on national election surveys held in "old" and "new" democracies in Europe (Germany, Britain, Spain, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Bulgaria), North and South America (the United States, Chile and Uruguay), and Asia (Hong Kong) between 1990 and 2004. It is methodologically innovative, notwithstanding the fact that its core concern with "political intermediation" (i.e., the flow of political information from parties and candidates to voters through the mass-communications media, membership in secondary associations, and direct, face-to-face contacts within interpersonal networks) was first introduced to the study of electoral behavior by Paul Lazarsfeld and his collaborators in the 1940s. In addition to reviving that long-neglected analytical framework, this book breaks new ground by systematically exploring the impact of socio-political values on electoral behavior. It also analyzes the role of political intermediation in forming basic attitudes towards democracy (which are crucial for the consolidation of new democracies), and, in turn, channeling those orientations into various forms of political behavior. Some of the findings presented in this volume are dramatic, and clearly reveal that these channels of information are among the most powerful factors influencing the development of political attitudes and partisan electoral behavior. So, too, are socio-political values in some countries (particularly the United States). This volume is the first book-length product of the now 18-country Comparative National Elections Project.

Author: Janelle S. Wong
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
ISBN: 1610447557
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 389

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Asian Americans are a small percentage of the U.S. population, but their numbers are steadily rising—from less than a million in 1960 to more than 15 million today. They are also a remarkably diverse population—representing several ethnicities, religions, and languages—and they enjoy higher levels of education and income than any other U.S. racial group. Historically, socioeconomic status has been a reliable predictor of political behavior. So why has this fast-growing American population, which is doing so well economically, been so little engaged in the U.S. political system? Asian American Political Participation is the most comprehensive study to date of Asian American political behavior, including such key measures as voting, political donations, community organizing, and political protests. The book examines why some groups participate while others do not, why certain civic activities are deemed preferable to others, and why Asian socioeconomic advantage has so far not led to increased political clout. Asian American Political Participation is based on data from the authors’ groundbreaking 2008 National Asian American Survey of more than 5,000 Chinese, Indian, Vietnamese, Korean, Filipino, and Japanese Americans. The book shows that the motivations for and impediments to political participation are as diverse as the Asian American population. For example, native-born Asians have higher rates of political participation than their immigrant counterparts, particularly recent adult arrivals who were socialized outside of the United States. Protest activity is the exception, which tends to be higher among immigrants who maintain connections abroad and who engaged in such activity in their country of origin. Surprisingly, factors such as living in a new immigrant destination or in a city with an Asian American elected official do not seem to motivate political behavior—neither does ethnic group solidarity. Instead, hate crimes and racial victimization are the factors that most motivate Asian Americans to participate politically. Involvement in non-political activities such as civic and religious groups also bolsters political participation. Even among Asian groups, socioeconomic advantage does not necessarily translate into high levels of political participation. Chinese Americans, for example, have significantly higher levels of educational attainment than Japanese Americans, but Japanese Americans are far more likely to vote and make political contributions. And Vietnamese Americans, with the lowest levels of education and income, vote and engage in protest politics more than any other group. Lawmakers tend to favor the interests of groups who actively engage the political system, and groups who do not participate at high levels are likely to suffer political consequences in the future. Asian American Political Participation demonstrates that understanding Asian political behavior today can have significant repercussions for Asian American political influence tomorrow.

Author: Russell J. Dalton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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Assessing the trajectory of democratization in East Asia, this volume offers a systematic and tightly integrated analysis of party-system development in countries across the region. The authors utilize unprecedented cross-national survey data to examine the institutional structure of party systems, the range of choices these systems represent, and their connection to voting preferences. They also investigate the consequences of partisanship for citizen support of the democratic process. While revealing that party development in the region is still incomplete, the book highlights areas of progress as it explores the potential for enhanced representation.

Author: Chong-Min Park
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781138328495
Category : Democracy
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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PART I: Inequality and political institutions -- Inequality, democracy, and the welfare states in East Asia : toward a new theoretical proposal to analyse the politics of redistribution / Cheol-Sung Lee -- Trust, corruption, and inequality / Eric M. Uslaner -- The political economy of inequality and capture in South Korea / Jong-sung You -- PART II: Inequality and political dupport -- Assessing the inequality-femocracy linkage at the individual-level : evidence from East Asia / Chong-Min Park -- Equality of opportunity and satisfaction with the political system : the mediating role of regime type / Yun-han Chu and Chin-en Wu -- Economic inequality and authoritarian legitimacy : the case of China / Shuai Jin and Yingnan Joseph Zhou -- PART III: Inequality and political behaviour -- Redistribution preferences and ideological orientations across countries / Willy Jou and Sejin Koo -- Economic inequality and political participation in East Asia : evidence from East Asian vountries / Inyoung Cho -- Economic inequality, ethnic mobilisation, and electoral competition / Eric C.C. Chang and Chunho Park.

Author: Kate Xiao Zhou
Publisher: Politics in Asia
ISBN: 9780415705363
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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This book demonstrates how careful examinations of current developments in East Asia indicate a need for major expansion of our understandings of democracy and democratization, and challenges the traditional way in which political regimes are conceived and labelled. It shows from Asian experiences that democracy and its precursors come in more forms than most liberals have yet imagined. In reviewing the experiences of states across East Asia, this book shows that actual democracies and ostensible democratizations in Asia are less like those in the West than the surprisingly consensual standard political science of democratization suggests.

Author: Russell J. Dalton
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199270120
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1010

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The Oxford Handbooks of Political Science is a ten-volume set of reference books offering authoritative and engaging critical overviews of the state of political science. Each volume focuses on a particular part of the discipline, with volumes on Public Policy, Political Theory, Political Economy, Contextual Political Analysis, Comparative Politics, International Relations, Law and Politics, Political Behavior, Political Institutions, and Political Methodology. The project as a whole is under the General Editorship of Robert E. Goodin, with each volume being edited by a distinguished international group of specialists in their respective fields. The books set out not just to report on the discipline, but to shape it. The series will be an indispensable point of reference for anyone working in political science and adjacent disciplines. What does democracy expect of its citizens, and how do the citizenry match these expectations? This Oxford Handbook examines the role of the citizen in contemporary politics, based on essays from the world's leading scholars of political behavior research. The recent expansion of democracy has both given new rights and created new responsibilities for the citizenry. These political changes are paralleled by tremendous advances in our empirical knowledge of citizens and their behaviors through the institutionalization of systematic, comparative study of contemporary publics--ranging from the advanced industrial democracies to the emerging democracies of Central and Eastern Europe, to new survey research on the developing world. These essays describe how citizens think about politics, how their values shape their behavior, the patterns of participation, the sources of vote choice, and how public opinion impacts on governing and public policy. This is the most comprehensive review of the cross-national literature of citizen behavior and the relationship between citizens and their governments. It will become the first point of reference for scholars and students interested in these key issues.