Democratization in China, Korea and Southeast Asia?: Local and National Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9781138066212 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 260 str.

Kate Xiao Zhou; Shelley Rigger; Lynn T. White III

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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