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.…mehr
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.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Kate Xiao Zhou is Professor of Political Science at the University of Hawaii, USA. Shelley Rigger is Brown Professor and Chair of Political Science at Davidson College, USA. Lynn T. White III is Professor Emeritus of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University, USA.
Inhaltsangabe
1. Diverse Routes to Democracy: An Introduction 2. South Korean Democracy in Light of Taiwan 3. Taiwan's Democratization and Mainland China's Future 4. Strategic Hypocrisy: Sovereignty, Legitimacy, and Commerce in Archipelagic Southeast Asia 5. Democracy and Inequality in Thailand: The Rise of the Red Shirts 6. The Local Factor in China's Intra-Party Democracy 7. Why Did China's Reform Start from the Provinces? De facto Federalism and its Limits 8. Law and Democracy in China: A Complex Relationship 9. Suing the Government in China 10. Petitioning as Policy Making: Chinese Rural Tax Reform 11. The Fragmented State in Action: The Production and Governance of Art Districts in Beijing 12. China Invests Overseas: Does the Strong State Help China's Outbound Investment? 13. All the News, All the Politics: Sophisticated Propaganda in Capitalist-Authoritarian China 14. Chinese Nationalism Reconsidered-Or, a Case for Historicising the Study of Chinese Politics 15. How the Internet is Changing China
1. Diverse Routes to Democracy: An Introduction 2. South Korean Democracy in Light of Taiwan 3. Taiwan's Democratization and Mainland China's Future 4. Strategic Hypocrisy: Sovereignty, Legitimacy, and Commerce in Archipelagic Southeast Asia 5. Democracy and Inequality in Thailand: The Rise of the Red Shirts 6. The Local Factor in China's Intra-Party Democracy 7. Why Did China's Reform Start from the Provinces? De facto Federalism and its Limits 8. Law and Democracy in China: A Complex Relationship 9. Suing the Government in China 10. Petitioning as Policy Making: Chinese Rural Tax Reform 11. The Fragmented State in Action: The Production and Governance of Art Districts in Beijing 12. China Invests Overseas: Does the Strong State Help China's Outbound Investment? 13. All the News, All the Politics: Sophisticated Propaganda in Capitalist-Authoritarian China 14. Chinese Nationalism Reconsidered-Or, a Case for Historicising the Study of Chinese Politics 15. How the Internet is Changing China
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