New Democracy and Autocratization in Asia

Buch | Hardcover

252 Seiten

2022
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-22069-7 (ISBN)

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This book determines why current Asian democracies have become less stable and less resilient to increasing authoritarianism. It will be of interest in the field of political science, comparative politics, IR, East/Southeast Asia Regional Studies, sociology, public policy, economics, & social science.

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.

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.

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Abbreviations

List of Contributors

Preface

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

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	17.08.2022
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Studies on Think Asia
Zusatzinfo	34 Tables, black and white; 7 Line drawings, black and white; 28 Halftones, black and white; 35 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	1-032-22069-4 / 1032220694
ISBN-13	978-1-032-22069-7 / 9781032220697
Zustand	Neuware