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East Asia's New Democracies : Deepening, Reversal, Non-liberal Alternatives.

Reflects on the contemporary situations in the new democracies of East Asia, and debates on the prospect of introducing liberal democracy to this area. This title covers a range of cases, including examination of China, Korea, Taiwan, the Philippines, Thailand, and broad comparisons of other countri...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Chu, Yin-wah
Otros Autores: Wong, Siu-lun
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2010.
Colección:Politics in Asia series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Contributors; Acknowledgments; 1 East Asia's new democracies: An introduction; Part I: Transition, consolidation, reversal: Actors then and now; 2 Social and political developments in China: Challenges for democratization; 3 Civil society and democracymaking in Taiwan: Reexamining the link; 4 The bottom-up nature of Korean democratization: Civil society, anti-Americanism and popular protest; 5 Modernization theory's last redoubt: Democratization in East and Southeast Asia.
  • 6 Development and change in Korean democracy since the democratic transition in 1987: The Three Kims' politics and after7 Thailand's conservative democratization; Part II: Democracy in East Asia?: Achievements and enduring challenges; 8 Democracy and disorder: Will democratization bring greater regional instability to East Asia?; 9 Democracy's double edge: Financing social policy in industrial East Asia; 10 Devolution and democracy: A fragile connection; 11 Rule of law and demo.