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Author: Larry Diamond
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2013-02-15
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 1421409682
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPredicts 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.
Author: Yun-han Chu
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2008-09-01
Total Pages: 329
ISBN-13: 0231517831
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEast 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.
Author: Erin Aeran Chung
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-10-08
Total Pages: 279
ISBN-13: 1107042534
DOWNLOAD EBOOKComparing three Northeast Asian countries, this book examines how past struggles for democracy shape current movements for immigrant rights.
Author: Tom Ginsburg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003-07-23
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9780521520393
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNew democracies around the world have adopted constitutional courts to oversee the operation of democratic politics. Where does judicial power come from, how does it develop in the early stages of democratic liberalization, and what political conditions support its expansion? This book answers these questions through an examination of three constitutional courts in Asia: Taiwan, Korea, and Mongolia. In a region that has traditionally viewed law as a tool of authoritarian rulers, constitutional courts in these three societies are becoming a real constraint on government. In contrast with conventional culturalist accounts, this book argues that the design and functioning of constitutional review are largely a function of politics and interests. Judicial review - the power of judges to rule an act of a legislature or national leader unconstitutional - is a solution to the problem of uncertainty in constitutional design. By providing insurance to prospective electoral losers, judicial review can facilitate democracy.
Author: Aurel Croissant
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-05-21
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 1108495745
DOWNLOAD EBOOKComparative analysis of case studies across East Asia provides new insights into the relationship between state building, stateness, and democracy.
Author: Alan T. Wood
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-04-29
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 1136361529
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTaking a comparative approach, Alan T. Wood traces the evolution of democracy from its origins in prehistoric times and describes democratic growth in thirteen Asian countries from Japan in East Asia to Pakistan in South Asia and examines key issues such as: * How does the democratic experience in Asia, in countries with unique and totalitarian political traditions, compare with democracies worldwide? * Is the aspiration to freedom universal or is it a product of western ideas and institutions?
Author: Sungmoon Kim
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-02-28
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 1107049032
DOWNLOAD EBOOKConfucian Democracy in East Asia explores the unique Confucian reasoning that still exists in much of East Asian culture.
Author: Laurence Whitehead
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2002-09-16
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780801872198
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOver 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.
Author: Baogang He
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-08-24
Total Pages: 219
ISBN-13: 1000427307
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFeaturing cases from India, China, Nepal, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Mongolia and Malaysia, the authors demonstrate and compare the differing uses of public deliberation in Asia. Many countries in Asia have long traditions of public deliberation, in both democratic and undemocratic settings, some of which continue today. Yet in the face of pressures from complex governance, popular protests and democratization, certain deliberative practices – notably deliberative polling – have been ‘parachuted’ into the region without regard to historical or traditional practices of deliberation. And, the motivations differ. Some states have made use of public deliberation in order to contain dissent, while others have more emancipatory goals in mind. The contributors to this book take a comparative perspective on the emergence and evolution of deliberative practices in Asia, and their relationships with democracy. They analyse the main motivations for introducing public deliberation in different political regimes and the effectiveness of public deliberation in Asian countries for solving problems and improving governance. In doing so they evaluate whether deliberative democratic tools, can apply to all societies regardless of their political and cultural differences. Essential reading for students and scholars of Asian Politics, this book will also be of great use to all political scientists with an interest in deliberative democracy.
Author: Daniel A. Bell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-08-12
Total Pages: 417
ISBN-13: 1107470978
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
