Author: Larry Diamond
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421409682
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Predicts that East Asia, with its remarkable diversity of political regimes, economies, and religions, would likely be the critical arena in the global struggle for democracy, a prediction that has proven prescient. This title offers a treatment of the political landscape in both Northeast and Southeast Asia.
Democracy in East Asia
Author: Larry Diamond
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421409682
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Predicts that East Asia, with its remarkable diversity of political regimes, economies, and religions, would likely be the critical arena in the global struggle for democracy, a prediction that has proven prescient. This title offers a treatment of the political landscape in both Northeast and Southeast Asia.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421409682
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Predicts that East Asia, with its remarkable diversity of political regimes, economies, and religions, would likely be the critical arena in the global struggle for democracy, a prediction that has proven prescient. This title offers a treatment of the political landscape in both Northeast and Southeast Asia.
How East Asians View Democracy
Author: Yun-han Chu
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231517831
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231517831
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
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.
Stateness and Democracy in East Asia
Author: Aurel Croissant
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108495745
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
Comparative analysis of case studies across East Asia provides new insights into the relationship between state building, stateness, and democracy.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108495745
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
Comparative analysis of case studies across East Asia provides new insights into the relationship between state building, stateness, and democracy.
Emerging Market Democracies
Author: Laurence Whitehead
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801872198
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Over the 1980s Latin America made great strides in democratization, while East Asia led the world in economic growth. Are the two converging toward a model that combines economic and political liberalization? This text examines increased scope for mutual support among aspiring democratic forces.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801872198
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Over the 1980s Latin America made great strides in democratization, while East Asia led the world in economic growth. Are the two converging toward a model that combines economic and political liberalization? This text examines increased scope for mutual support among aspiring democratic forces.
Civil Society and the State in Democratic East Asia
Author: David Chiavacci
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789463723930
Category : Protest movements
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Civil Society and the State in Democratic East Asia: Between Entanglement and Contention in Post High Growth 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 contributions to this book argue 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.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789463723930
Category : Protest movements
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Civil Society and the State in Democratic East Asia: Between Entanglement and Contention in Post High Growth 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 contributions to this book argue 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.
Immigrant Incorporation in East Asian Democracies
Author: Erin Aeran Chung
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107042534
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
Comparing three Northeast Asian countries, this book examines how past struggles for democracy shape current movements for immigrant rights.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107042534
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
Comparing three Northeast Asian countries, this book examines how past struggles for democracy shape current movements for immigrant rights.
Development, Democracy, and Welfare States
Author: Stephan Haggard
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691135960
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Comparing the welfare states of Latin America, East Asia and Eastern Europe, the authors trace the origins of social policy in these regions to political changes in the mid-20th century, and show how the legacies of these early choices are influencing welfare reform following democratization and globalization.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691135960
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Comparing the welfare states of Latin America, East Asia and Eastern Europe, the authors trace the origins of social policy in these regions to political changes in the mid-20th century, and show how the legacies of these early choices are influencing welfare reform following democratization and globalization.
The East Asian Challenge for Democracy
Author: Daniel A. Bell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107470978
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
The rise of China, along with problems of governance in democratic countries, has reinvigorated the theory of political meritocracy. But what is the theory of political meritocracy and how can it set standards for evaluating political progress (and regress)? To help answer these questions, this volume gathers a series of commissioned research papers from an interdisciplinary group of leading philosophers, historians and social scientists. The result is the first book in decades to examine the rise (or revival) of political meritocracy and what it will mean for political developments in China and the rest of the world. Despite its limitations, meritocracy has contributed much to human flourishing in East Asia and beyond and will continue to do so in the future. This book is essential reading for those who wish to further the debate and perhaps even help to implement desirable forms of political change.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107470978
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
The rise of China, along with problems of governance in democratic countries, has reinvigorated the theory of political meritocracy. But what is the theory of political meritocracy and how can it set standards for evaluating political progress (and regress)? To help answer these questions, this volume gathers a series of commissioned research papers from an interdisciplinary group of leading philosophers, historians and social scientists. The result is the first book in decades to examine the rise (or revival) of political meritocracy and what it will mean for political developments in China and the rest of the world. Despite its limitations, meritocracy has contributed much to human flourishing in East Asia and beyond and will continue to do so in the future. This book is essential reading for those who wish to further the debate and perhaps even help to implement desirable forms of political change.
Confucian Democracy in East Asia
Author: Sungmoon Kim
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107049032
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Confucian Democracy in East Asia explores the unique Confucian reasoning that still exists in much of East Asian culture.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107049032
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Confucian Democracy in East Asia explores the unique Confucian reasoning that still exists in much of East Asian culture.
Democratization in Confucian East Asia: Citizen Politics in China, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, and Vietnam
Author:
Publisher: Cambria Press
ISBN: 1621969428
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 133
Book Description
Publisher: Cambria Press
ISBN: 1621969428
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 133
Book Description