Democratic Regressions In Asia

Author : Aurel Croissant
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000803910
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Democratic Regressions in Asia written by Aurel Croissant and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-12 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book studies and compares causes, catalysts and consequences of democratic regression and revival in South, Southeast, and Northeast Asia. The Asia-Pacific presents social scientists with a natural laboratory to test competing theories of democratic erosion, decay, and revival and to identify new patterns and relationships. This volume combines conceptual and comparative research with single case studies. Overall, the collection of studies in this volume captures different forms of democratic regression and autocratization, examine how Asia-Pacific experiences fit into debates about democracy’s deepening global recession and what the Asia-Pacific experiences contribute to the understanding of the causes, catalysts, and consequences of democratic regression and resilience in the comparative politics literature. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Democratization.

Author : Kuyoun Chung
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000636208
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Democracy and Autocratization in Asia written by Kuyoun Chung and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-08-19 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the quality of democracies in Asia and determines why current democracies—especially during the so-called “new normal” era following the 2008 financial crisis—have become less stable and less resilient to increasing authoritarianism. Based on the assumption that the concept of democracy consists of three elements—procedure (participation, competition, and distribution of power); effectiveness (representation, accountability, and responsiveness); and performance (social welfare, inequality, and trust)—the contributors to this book determine which elements are responsible for diverging trajectories within the Asian democratic recession. Examining South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Singapore, Vietnam, Indonesia, India, Myanmar, and China, the authors employ different research methods—quantitative, comparative, or individual case studies—to explore the conditions under which democratic rules and norms erode over time, and which type of governance is preferred by citizens in this region as an ideal type. The book puts forward the argument that a procedure-oriented concept of democracy is not sufficient for understanding the source of democratic recession and develops a new concept of “new democracy” based on procedure, effectiveness, and performance. It also demonstrates to what extent the experience changes and how the countries respond to these changes. A novel contribution on the state of democracy in Asia written by experts from the region, this book will be of interest to academics in the field of political science, especially comparative politics and international relations, regional study of East and Southeast Asia, sociology, public policy, economics, and social science methods. Also, this book will appeal to think tanks and policy-oriented researchers.

Author : Aurel Croissant
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108495745
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stateness and Democracy in East Asia written by Aurel Croissant and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-21 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comparative analysis of case studies across East Asia provides new insights into the relationship between state building, stateness, and democracy.

Author : Gero Erdmann
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3531933027
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Regression of Democracy? written by Gero Erdmann and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-21 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Democratization since the implosion of the communist bloc displays a mixed balance. While the neo-democracies in Central Eastern European Countries can be seen as largely consolidated, many other processes of democratization in other parts of the world such as Africa, Asia and Latin America got stuck as unconsolidated or became defective democracies, some ‘regressed’ into hybrid regimes or were even turned into autocracies. While transitology dealt with the transition from authoritarian rule, the reverse process, the transition from democratic rule, remained almost completely outside the scholarly attention. This special issue will address the problems of the regression of democracy and aims at closing the gap between research on democracy and democratization on one side and the emergence of authoritarian regimes on the other. The contributions of this volume analyse the different phenomena in which decline of democracy fans out: the loss of quality, which means a silent regression; the backslide into hybrid regimes (hybridization); and the breakdown of democracy.

Author : Giovanna Dore
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317563980
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Asia Struggles with Democracy written by Giovanna Dore and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-03 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1974, when the current wave of democratisation began, the movement towards democracy in Asia has remained limited. Many countries in Asia, in fact, are not making a decisive move towards democracy, and find themselves struggling with the challenges of democratic consolidation and governance. Focusing on Indonesia, Thailand and Korea, this book analyses why democratisation is so difficult in Asia. The book investigates the dynamics by which citizens embrace democratic rule and reject authoritarianism, and also compares these dynamics with those of consolidating democracies around the world. The book looks at the forces that affect the emergence and stability of democracy, such as elite interactions, economic development and popular attitudes as beliefs and perceptions about the legitimacy of political systems have long been recognised as some of the most critical influences on regime change. The book also discusses what it is about the nature of public opinion and the processes of day-to-day democratic participation that have made these countries vulnerable to repeated crises of legitimacy. Using Indonesia, Korea, and Thailand as case studies, this book highlights the uniqueness of the Asia’s path to democracy, and shows both the challenges and opportunities in getting there. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of Asian Politics, Comparative Politics and International Studies.

Author : Marcus Mietzner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108589073
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Democratic Deconsolidation in Southeast Asia written by Marcus Mietzner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-26 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the mid-2000s, the quality of democracy around the world has been in decline, and Southeast Asia is no exception. This Element analyzes the extent, patterns and drivers of democratic deconsolidation in the three Southeast Asian countries that boast the longest history of electoral democracy in the region: Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand. While the exact deconsolidation outcomes differ, all three nations have witnessed similar trends of democratic erosion. In each case, long-standing democratic deficiencies (such as clientelism, politicized security forces and non-democratic enclaves) have persisted; rising wealth inequality has triggered political oligarchization and subsequent populist responses embedded in identity politics; and ambitious middle classes have opted for non-democratic alternatives to safeguard their material advancement. As a result, all three polities have descended from their democratic peaks between the late 1980s and early 2000s, with few signs pointing to a return to previous democratization paths.

Author : Stephan Haggard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108962874
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Backsliding written by Stephan Haggard and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-11 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assaults on democracy are increasingly coming from the actions of duly elected governments, rather than coups. Backsliding examines the processes through which elected rulers weaken checks on executive power, curtail political and civil liberties, and undermine the integrity of the electoral system. Drawing on detailed case studies, including the United States and countries in Latin America, Eastern Europe, and Africa, the book focuses on three, inter-related causal mechanisms: the pernicious effects of polarization; realignments of party systems that enable elected autocrats to gain legislative power; and the incremental nature of derogations, which divides oppositions and keeps them off balance. A concluding chapter looks at the international context of backsliding and the role of new technologies in these processes. An online appendix provides detailed accounts of backsliding in 16 countries, which can be found at www.cambridge.org/backsliding.

Author : Joshua Kurlantzick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780876092507
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Addressing the Effect of COVID-19 on Democracy in South and Southeast Asia written by Joshua Kurlantzick and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas Power
Publisher : ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute
ISBN 13 : 981488152X
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Democracy in Indonesia written by Thomas Power and published by ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute. This book was released on 2020-08-19 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indonesia has long been hailed as a rare case of democratic transition and persistence in an era of global democratic setbacks. But as the country enters its third decade of democracy, such laudatory assessments have become increasingly untenable. The stagnation that characterized Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s second presidential term has given way to a more far-reaching pattern of democratic regression under his successor, Joko Widodo. This volume is the first comprehensive study of Indonesia’s contemporary democratic decline. Its contributors identify, explain and debate the signs of regression, including arbitrary state crackdowns on freedom of speech and organization, the rise of vigilantism, deepening political polarization, populist mobilization, the dysfunction of key democratic institutions, and the erosion of checks and balances on executive power. They ask why Indonesia, until recently considered a beacon of democratic exceptionalism, increasingly conforms to the global pattern of democracy in retreat.

Author : G. Dore
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137397500
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Incomplete Democracies in the Asia-Pacific written by G. Dore and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-10-02 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection presents a varied picture of the state of democracy in Asia, revealing unique findings from a project entitled the 'Asia Democracy Initiative' which explored the role of ordinary people in democratization through the rise of expressive social values in Indonesia, South Korea, the Philippines and Thailand.