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Confucianism, Democratization, and Human Rights in Taiwan (Paperback)
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Responding to the "Asian values" debate over the compatibility of
Confucianism and liberal democracy, Confucianism, Democratization,
and Human Rights in Taiwan, by Joel S. Fetzer and J. Christopher
Soper, offers a rigorous, systematic investigation of the
contributions of Confucian thought to democratization and the
protection of women, indigenous peoples, and press freedom in
Taiwan. Relying upon a unique combination of empirical analysis of
public opinion surveys, legislative debates, public school
textbooks, and interviews with leading Taiwanese political actors,
this essential study documents the changing role of Confucianism in
Taiwan's recent political history. While the ideology largely
bolstered authoritarian rule in the past and played little role in
Taiwan's democratization, the belief system is now in the process
of transforming itself in a pro-democratic direction. In contrast
to those who argue that Confucianism is inherently authoritarian,
the authors contend that Confucianism is capable of multiple
interpretations, including ones that legitimate democratic forms of
government. At both the mass and the elite levels, Confucianism
remains a powerful ideology in Taiwan despite or even because of
the island's democratization. Borrowing from Max Weber's sociology
of religion, the writers provide a distinctive theoretical argument
for how an ideology like Confucianism can simultaneously
accommodate itself to modernity and remain faithful to its core
teachings as it decouples itself from the state. In doing so,
Fetzer and Soper argue, Confucianism is behaving much like
Catholicism, which moved from a position of ambivalence or even
opposition to democracy to one of full support. The results of this
study have profound implications for other Asian countries such as
China and Singapore, which are also Confucian but have not yet made
a full transition to democracy.
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