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Summary:

"Rapid economic pluralization in East Asia has empowered local and medial groups, and with this change comes the need to radically rethink usual notions regarding the ways in which 'democracies' emerge or 'citizens' gain more power. 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. Further, 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. It first examines the extreme variation of democracy's meaning in many Asian states that hold contested elections (South Korea, Taiwan, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Thailand), and in turn shifts its attention to China. It analyses a range of grassroots forces driving political change in the PRC, and uncovers both accelerators and brakes on China's political reform process. Importantly, the contributors show that models for China's political future exist both outside the PRC, including in other East Asian states, and within China, in localities and sectors that already are pushing the boundaries of the powerful, but no longer all-powerful, PRC party-state"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: 1. Diverse Routes To Democracy: An Introduction
• 2. South Korean Democracy In Light Of Taiwan / Lynn T. White III
• 3. Taiwan's Democratization And Mainland China's Future / Erik Mobrand
• 4. Strategic Hypocrisy: Sovereignty, Legitimacy, And Commerce In Archipelagic Southeast Asia / Shelley Rigger
• 5. Democracy And Inequality In Thailand: The Rise Of The Red Shirts / Justin V. Hastings
• 6. Local Factor In China's Intra-Party Democracy / Erik Martinez Kuhonta
• 7. Why Does China's Reform Start In The Provinces? De Facto Federalism And Its Limits / Cheng Li
• 8. Law And Democracy In China: A Complex Relationship / Cuifen Weng / Yongnian Zheng
• 9. Suing The Government In China / Jacques Delisle
• 10. Petitioning As Policy Making: Chinese Rural Tax Reform / Neysun A. Mahboubi
• 11. Fragmented State In Action: The Production And Governance Of Art Districts In Beijing / Sing Chen
• 12. China Invests Overseas: Does The Strong State Help China's Outbound Investment? / Yue Zhang
• 13. All The News, All The Politics: Sophisticated Propaganda In Capitalist-Authoritarian China / Min Ye
• 14. Chinese Nationalism Reconsidered[—]or, A Case For Historicizing The Study Of Chinese Politics / Guoguang Wu
• 15. How The Internet Is Changing China / Ja Ian Chong.

Contributors:

Zhou, Kate Xiao, 1956- , editor

Rigger, Shelley, 1962- , editor

White, Lynn T., III, 1941- , editor

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Included Works:

Diverse routes to democracy [by White, L.T.]

Related Series:

Politics in Asia series

Subjects:

Democratization — China

Democratization — Korea (South)

Democratization — Southeast Asia

China — Politics and government — 21st century

Korea (South) — Politics and government — 21st century

Southeast Asia — Politics and government — 21st century

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

JQ1516 .D43 2014

ISBNs:

9781134512072 (electronic bk.)
1134512074 (electronic bk.)
9780415705363 [Invalid]
0415705363 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

874146438

Other Control Numbers:

688544 (source: EbpS)
[Unknown Type]: ybp11602766