This handbook provides a comprehensive analysis of the dynamics and prospects of democratization in East Asia. A team of leading experts in the field offers discussion at both the country and regional level, including analysis of democratic attitudes and movements in China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. Evaluating all the key components of regime evolution, from citizen politics to democratic institutions, the sections covered include:
Regional Trends and Country Overviews
Institutions, Elections, and Political Parties
Democratic Citizenship
Democratic Governance
The Political Economy of Democratization
Examining the challenges that East Asian emerging democracies still face today, as well as the prospects of the region's authoritarian regimes, the Routledge Handbook of Democratization in East Asia will be useful for students and scholars of East Asian Politics, Comparative Politics, and Asian Studies.
Introduction: An overview of East Asian democratization, Tun-jen Cheng
and Yun-han Chu
Section 1 Regional trends and country stories
1. East Asian democratization
in comparative perspective: Viewing through the eyes of the citizens,
Yu-tzung Chang and Yun-han Chu
2. Japanese democracy, Mary Alice Haddad
3.
South Korean democratization: A comparative empiracal appraisal, Jung Kim
4.
Taiwan's challenged democracy in the twenty-first century, Yun-han Chu and
Yu-tzung Chang
5. Democracy in Mongolia: Public perceptions of its
development and future challenges Damba Ganbat
6. Protracted transition ina
liberal autocracy: The case of Hong Kong Ma Ngok
7. China's developmental
authoritarianism: Dyanamics and pitfalls, Dali L. Yang
8. Authoritarian
post-communist transition and it's future in China, Vietnam, and North Korea,
Taehwan Kim and Chung-in Moon
Section 2 Institution, election and political parties
9. How electoral
systems shape the life of a democracy: The East Asian model, Jih-wen Lin
10.
The development of party systems, Olli Hellman
11. Politics of party
polarization in East Asian: A comparison of South Korea, Taiwan, and Japan,
Nae-Young Lee and Sung Min Han
12. Constitutional divergence in East Asia:
Causes and consequences Yu-shan Wu and Yu-chung Shen
13. Constitutional and
judicial review in East Asia, Juin-rong Yeh
Section 3 Democratic Citizenship
14. Political Participation in East Asia,
Zhengxu Wang and Leihua Ye
15. Class, civil society and social movements,
Yoonkyung Lee
16. Women's political empowerment, Chang-lin Huang
17.
Cognitive involvement and democratic understanding Min-hua Huang
18. 'New
Media' and democratisation in East Asia, Gary D. Rawnsley and Yiben Ma
19.
The Asian values debate: A reassessment from the perspective of
democratization, Doh Chull Shin
Section 4 Democratic Governance
20. Quality of democracy: Public views,
Chong-min Park
21. Corruption and institutional trust in East Asian
democracies, Eric C. C. Chang and Shih-hao Huang
22. The rule of law and
democratice governance in Asia, Tom Ginsburg
23. Human rights in East Asia,
Sanae Fujita
24. Electoral Integrity in East Asia, Pippa Norris
Section 5 Political Economy of Democratization
25. Government-business
relations in democratizing Asia Gregory W. Noble
26. East Asian
democratization and the welfare state, Joseph Wong
27. Wither
developmentalisam after democratisation? Sung-Young Kim
28. Globalization,
growth models, and democracy in East Asia, Chin-en Wu
29. Economic inequality
and social exclusion in Korea, Japan, and Taiwan Inyoung Cho and Hyeok Yong
Kwon
30. Geopolitics and democratization in East Asia, Wei Shan and Yong-nian
Zheng.
Tun-jen Cheng holds the Class of 1935 Chair Professorship in the Government Department at the College of William and Mary, USA.
Yun-han Chu is Distinguished Research Fellow of the Institute of Political Science at Academia Sinica and Professor of Political Science at the National Taiwan University.
