East Asia's New Democracies : Deepening, Reversal, Non-Liberal Alternatives
ISBN: 9780415499316 | 0415499313
Edition: 1stFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Routledge
Pub. Date: 5/10/2010
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Two decades ago a number of countries in East and Southeast Asia made the difficult transition to democracy. The time has come not only to examine their achievements and looming problems, but also to juxtapose their experiences with theoretical discussion of the third wave of democratization and democracy in general.
This collection brings us up-to-date on the contemporary situations in the new democracies of East Asia, and debates on the prospect of introducing liberal democracy to this part of the world. The chap... MORE
This collection brings us up-to-date on the contemporary situations in the new democracies of East Asia, and debates on the prospect of introducing liberal democracy to this part of the world. The chap... MORE
| List of figures | p. xi |
| List of tables | p. xii |
| Notes on contributors | p. xiii |
| Acknowledgments | p. xvii |
| East Asia's new democracies: an introduction | p. 1 |
| Transition, consolidation, reversal: actors then and now | p. 23 |
| Social and political developments in China: challenges for democratization | p. 25 |
| Civil society and democracy-making in Taiwan: reexamining the link | ... MOREp. 43 |
| The bottom-up nature of Korean democratization: civil society, anti-Americanism and popular protest | p. 65 |
| Modernization theory's last redoubt: democratization in East and Southeast Asia | p. 85 |
| Development and change in Korean democracy since the democratic transition in 1987: the Three Kims' politics and after | p. 102 |
| Thailand's conservative democratization | p. 122 |
| Democracy in East Asia? Achievements and enduring challenges | p. 141 |
| Democracy and disorder: will democratization bring greater regional instability to East Asia? | p. 143 |
| Democracy's double edge: financing social policy in industrial East Asia | p. 167 |
| Devolution and democracy: a fragile connection | p. 185 |
| Rule of law and democracy: lessons for China from Asian experiences | p. 206 |
| Group rights and democracy in Southeast Asia | p. 227 |
| Diagnosing the micro foundation of democracy in Asia: evidence from the AsiaBarometer survey, 2003-2008 | p. 246 |
| Index | p. 293 |
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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.
Siu-lun Wong is Professor and Director of the Centre of Asian Studies, University of Hong Kong.
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