Stateness and Democracy in East Asia

ISBN-13: 9781108495745 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 286 str.

Aurel Croissant; Olli Hellmann

Opis

Comparative analysis of case studies across East Asia provides new insights into the relationship between state building, stateness, and democracy.

Recenzje

'This study contributes to the existing research by recognizing the effects of informal institutions and networks on shaping state capacity … This book will be relevant to scholars of state-democracy relations and Asian studies in general … Recommended.' X. Li, Choice Magazine

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Rethinking Stateness and Democracy in Asia Aurel Croissant and Olli Hellmann; 2. State Building and Democratization: The Sequencing Debate and Evidence from East Asia Tuong Vu; 3. South Korea's Democracy and the Legacies of the Developmental State Olli Hellmann; 4. After Hegemony: State Capacity, the Quality of Democracy, and the Legacies of the Party-State in Democratic Taiwan Kharis Templeman; 5. Democratization Interrupted: The Parallel State and the Demise of Democracy in Thailand Paul Chambers; 6. Weak State and the Limits of Democratization in Cambodia, 1993–2017 Kheang Un; 7. The Institutional Roots of Defective Democracy in The Philippines Erik Martinez Kuhonta and Nhu Truong; 8. Stateness and State Capacity in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia: Securing Democracy's Survival, Entrenching its Low Quality Marcus Mietzner; 9. As Good as it Gets? Stateness and Democracy in East Timor Aurel Croissant and Rebecca Abu Sharkh; 10. Stateness and Democracy: Evidence From East Asia and Cross-Regional Comparisons Aurel Croissant and Olli Hellmann; Index.