1st Edition
Democratization in China, Korea and Southeast Asia? Local and National Perspectives
1. Diverse Routes to Democracy: An Introduction, Lynn T. White III Part I: Variety among Asian Democracies and Democratizations 2. South Korean Democracy in Light of Taiwan, Erik Mobrand 3. Taiwan’s Democratization and Mainland China’s Future, Shelley Rigger 4. Strategic Hypocrisy: Sovereignty, Legitimacy, and Commerce in Archipelagic Southeast Asia, Justin V. Hastings 5. Democracy and Inequality in Thailand: The Rise of the Red Shirts, Erik Martínez Kuhonta Part II: Constitutional and Legal Proto-Democratic Changes in China 6. The Local Factor in China’s Intra-Party Democracy, Cheng Li 7. Why Did China’s Reform Start from the Provinces? De facto Federalism and its Limits, Yongnian Zheng and Cuiwen Weng 8. Law and Democracy in China: A Complex Relationship, Jacques deLisle 9. Suing the Government in China, Neysun A. Mahboubi 10. Petitioning as Policy Making: Chinese Rural Tax Reform, Jing Chen Part III: Proto-Democratization in Chinese Civil Society 11. The Fragmented State in Action: The Production and Governance of Art Districts in Beijing, Yue Zhang 12. China Invests Overseas: Does the Strong State Help China’s Outbound Investment?, Min Ye 13. All the News, All the Politics: Sophisticated Propaganda in Capitalist-Authoritarian China, Guoguang Wu 14. Chinese Nationalism Reconsidered—Or, a Case for Historicising the Study of Chinese Politics, Ja Ian Chong 15. How the Internet is Changing China, Kate Xiao Zhou with Stephen Zierak.
Biography
Kate Xiao Zhou is Professor of Political Science at the University of Hawaii, USA.
Shelley Rigger is Brown Professor and Chair of Political Science at Davidson College, USA.
Lynn T. White III is Professor Emeritus of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University, USA.
"This volume emphasizes that democratization is a historical process and highlights the inadequacies of approaching a quantitative index of democracy as a regime type. The authors articulate that democracies and proto-democracies are inseparable from their evolutions, and they may start in informal networks that have no clear ideologies or leaders or meeting places. This is an important contribution." -Joseph Yu-shek Cheng, City University of Hong Kong
