|
Showing 1 - 9 of
9 matches in All Departments
Presidentialism and Democracy in East and Southeast Asia examines
the impact of presidential systems on democracies by examining
three distinct literatures - the perilousness of competing
legitimacies of the executive and legislative branches, issues of
institutional design (particularly regarding semi-presidentialism),
and the rise of executive aggrandizement. Despite often intense
political conflict and temporary instability in the East and
Southeast Asia, presidential systems of various types - from
relatively "pure" forms to semi-presidentialism and other hybrids -
have largely been resilient. Although there are signs of growing
autocratization in several cases, presidentialism, associated with
both accommodation and conflict, has usually not driven it. This
book's contributions to presidentialism debates will be of
interests to students and scholars of comparative politics while it
also offers detailed analysis of the presidency in these East and
Southeast Asian cases.
This book explores to what extent China has drawn lessons from
Singapore, both in terms of its ruling ideology and through the
policy-specific learning process. In so doing, it provides insights
into the opportunities but also the challenges of this long-term
learning process, focusing attention to how non-democratic regimes
deal with modernization. The stellar line-up of international
contributors, from China, Singapore, Europe, and the US, offer a
variety of perspectives on Singapore as a model of "authoritarian
modernism" for China. The book discusses how the small Southeast
Asian city-state became a major reference point for China, how
mainland observers often misunderstood the nature of Singapore's
governance and instrumentalized it to bolster the CCP's legitimacy,
and why the Singapore model appears to be in decline under Xi
Jinping. The chapters also analyze policy-specific learning
processes, including bilateral mechanisms of policy exchange, the
Chinese "mayor's class" in Singapore, and joint industrial projects
and lessons in social welfare provision. The book will be of
interest to academics working on Chinese politics; development in
China; state society and economy in the Asia-Pacific; international
relations in the Asia-Pacific; and Southeast Asian politics.
This book explores the theoretical and empirical relationship
between democracy and governance in the Asia-Pacific region.
Examining a variety of country cases and themes addressing the
theoretical tension between governance and democracy, it
illuminates how this impacts political and civil societies across
the region. Analysing the character, structure and current
trajectories of polities in the Asia-Pacific, democratic or
otherwise, this book demonstrates that the role of civil society,
political society and governance has significantly differed in
practice from what has been commonly assumed within the
international community. The book includes both theoretical
investigations tracing the modern development of the concepts of
governance, development and democratization as well as regional and
country-specific observations of major issues, presenting
comprehensive country-level studies of China, Singapore, Thailand,
Cambodia, the Philippines, Myanmar, Fiji and the Solomon Islands.
Presenting fascinating insight into non-democratic governance,
civil society and the rule of law in illiberal contexts, Governance
and Democracy in the Asia-Pacific will prove to be of great use to
students and scholars of Asian politics and society, as well as
international and comparative politics.
Despite enormous differences between Asia and Eastern Europe, there
are striking similarities between the peaceful, spontaneous,
urban-based and cross-class democratic uprisings against unyielding
dictatorships that have occurred in the two regions. The book
explores the kind of non-democratic regimes that are particularly
vulnerable to democratic revolutions. It examines why and how
democrats rebel and what the results of democratic revolutions have
been. Questions posed in this book include: * Why were communist
rulers shot in China but not in Eastern Europe? * Why did stolen
elections lead to the overthrow of Miloevic in Serbia? * Why have
there been so many women leading democratic revolutions in Asia?
This book attempts to democratize theories of revolution and
revolutionize democratic transitions. Cases and comparisons are
drawn from 15 democratic revolutions over the last two decades and
the book includes in-depth studies of East Germany, China, Serbia
and the Philippines.
Contents: 1. The Puzzles of Philippine 'People Power' 2. Female Leadership of Democratic Revolutions in Asia 3. The East German 'Wende' as a Democratic Revolution 4. To Shoot or Not to Shoot: China and Eastern Europe 5. Stolen Elections and Serbia's 'October Revolution' (with Philipp Kuntz) 6. Democratic Revolutions and the 'Clash of Samuel Huntingtons'
This book explores to what extent China has drawn lessons from
Singapore, both in terms of its ruling ideology and through the
policy-specific learning process. In so doing, it provides insights
into the opportunities but also the challenges of this long-term
learning process, focusing attention to how non-democratic regimes
deal with modernization. The stellar line-up of international
contributors, from China, Singapore, Europe, and the US, offer a
variety of perspectives on Singapore as a model of "authoritarian
modernism" for China. The book discusses how the small Southeast
Asian city-state became a major reference point for China, how
mainland observers often misunderstood the nature of Singapore's
governance and instrumentalized it to bolster the CCP's legitimacy,
and why the Singapore model appears to be in decline under Xi
Jinping. The chapters also analyze policy-specific learning
processes, including bilateral mechanisms of policy exchange, the
Chinese "mayor's class" in Singapore, and joint industrial projects
and lessons in social welfare provision. The book will be of
interest to academics working on Chinese politics; development in
China; state society and economy in the Asia-Pacific; international
relations in the Asia-Pacific; and Southeast Asian politics.
This book explores the theoretical and empirical relationship
between democracy and governance in the Asia-Pacific region.
Examining a variety of country cases and themes addressing the
theoretical tension between governance and democracy, it
illuminates how this impacts political and civil societies across
the region. Analysing the character, structure and current
trajectories of polities in the Asia-Pacific, democratic or
otherwise, this book demonstrates that the role of civil society,
political society and governance has significantly differed in
practice from what has been commonly assumed within the
international community. The book includes both theoretical
investigations tracing the modern development of the concepts of
governance, development and democratization as well as regional and
country-specific observations of major issues, presenting
comprehensive country-level studies of China, Singapore, Thailand,
Cambodia, the Philippines, Myanmar, Fiji and the Solomon Islands.
Presenting fascinating insight into non-democratic governance,
civil society and the rule of law in illiberal contexts, Governance
and Democracy in the Asia-Pacific will prove to be of great use to
students and scholars of Asian politics and society, as well as
international and comparative politics.
Following Barrington Moore Jr., this book raises doubts about
modernization theory's claim that an advanced economy with
extensive social differentiation is incompatible with authoritarian
rule. Authoritarian modernism in East Asia (Northeast and Southeast
Asia) has been characterized by economically reformist but
politically conservative leaders who have attempted to learn the
"secrets" of authoritarian rule in modern society. They demobilize
civil society while endeavoring to establish an "ethical" form of
rule and claim reactionary culturalist legitimation. With China,
East Asia is home to the most important country in the world today
that is rapidly modernizing while attempting to remain
authoritarian.
The Philippine dictatorship of Ferdinand E. Marcos was
characterized by family-based rule and corruption. This sultanistic
regime-in which the ruler exercised power freely, without loyalty
to any ideology or institution-had to be brought down because
Marcos would never step down. In this book Mark Thompson analyzes
how Marcos' opponents in the political and economic elite coped
with this situation and why their struggle resulted in a transition
to democracy through "people power" rather than through violence
and revolution. Based on 150 interviews that Thompson conducted
with key participants and on unpublished materials collected during
his five trips to the Philippines, the book sheds new light on the
transition process. Thompson reveals how anti-Marcos politicians
backed a terrorist campaign by social democrats and then, after its
failure, joined a "united front" with the communists. But when
opposition leader Benigno S. Aquino, Jr., was assassinated in 1983,
the politicians were able to draw on public outrage and challenge
Marcos at the polls. The opposition's "moral crusade" brought down
Marcos and enabled the new president, Corazon C. Aquino, to
consolidate democracy despite the troubling legacies of the
dictatorship. Thompson argues that the Philippines' long-standing
democratic tradition and the appeal that honest government had to
the Filipinos were important elements in explaining the peaceful
transition process.
|
You may like...
Loot
Nadine Gordimer
Paperback
(2)
R398
R330
Discovery Miles 3 300
Tenet
John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, …
DVD
R53
Discovery Miles 530
|