1st Edition
New Democracy and Autocratization in Asia
1. The State of Democracy, Wonbin Cho; 2. Women’s Descriptive and Substantive Representation in East and Southeast Asia, Nam Kyu Kim; 3. East Asians’ Understanding of Democracy: How Income Inequality Prioritizes Components of Democracy, Kuyoun Chung; 4. Democratic Competition and Welfare Development in East Asia: Case Studies on Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore, Yunmin Nam; 5. Uncommon Democracy of Japan: Consolidated or Pseudo Democracy?, Seongjo Kim; 6. Grassroots Democracy as a Social Base for Pro-Poor Outcomes in Vietnam, Yong Kyun Kim; 7. The Perceived Quality of Democracy and Political Support in Taiwan, Su-Jeong Kang; 8. Indonesia: Democratic procedure and Muslim democracy, Kyunghee Choi; 9. Assessing the Quality of Democracy in India: With Special References to Rule of Law, Participation, Competition, Rajiv Kumar; 10. A Refined Model of Contingent Consent: Explaining Popular Support for Singapore’s People’s Action Party, Terence C. Lee and Kay Key Teo; 11. Taiwan's Democracy at Multiple Crossings: Clashes of Partisanship, Generations, Classes, and Social Values, Min-Hua Huang; 12. The "Chinese-style" political system in the Xi Jinping era: From neo-authoritarianism to quasi-totalism, Jung-nam Lee; 13. Myanmar’s Broken Democracy "Disciplined" by the Military: Analysis on the Quality of Procedure in Fledging Democracy, Young-hwan Shin
Biography
Kuyoun Chung is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Kangwon National University, South Korea.
Wonbin Cho is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and Diplomacy at Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea.
"[T]his book offers a valuable contribution to the study of Asian politics. Most research in comparative politics has examined the emergence, development and maintenance of the western tradition of liberal democracy, but the same attention has not been awarded to Asian democratic transitions and consolidations. By investigating the trajectories of political development in the continent, the contributors demonstrate that there is no ‘one size fits all’ model of democracy. […] The book is an essential resource for those studying Asian comparative politics, as it covers various regime types and utilizes both quantitative and qualitative research methods."
--Yatana Yamahata, Nagoya University, Japan, International Relations theory
