Democracy (Made in Taiwan) - The ''Success'' State As a Political Theory

Informationen zum Autor By Chih-Yu Shih Klappentext While political scientists generally see Taiwan as a success state because of its economic modernization and political democratization, this book reinterprets Taiwan's success from the Confucian and postcolonial perspectives. Democracy (Made in Taiwan) uncovers the hegemonic construction of the myth of the "success state" and challenges political scientists to abandon both the liberal-centrism and state-centrism prevailing in the literature of democratization.While political scientists generally see Taiwan as a success state because of its economic modernization and political democratization, this book reinterprets Taiwan's success from the Confucian and postcolonial perspectives. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part 1 Introduction: Political Theory and Taiwan Part 2 Part I: The Taiwan Success Revisited Chapter 3 Not about Human Rights Chapter 4 Not about Liberalism Part 5 Part II: The "Rational Actor" Backfire Chapter 6 The Loss of the Median Voter Chapter 7 The Loss of an Ally Part 8 Part III: Political Theory in Practice Chapter 9 Back from the Future Chapter 10 The World Timing of Un-Chinese Consciousness Part 11 Part IV: Two Theses on Confucian Democracy Chapter 12 Parenting Personality Chapter 13 Beyond the State-Society Divide Part 14 Conclusion: Political Theory for Democratic Ontology

Product details

• Authors: Chih-yu Shih, Chi-Yu Shih
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.01.2008
• EAN: 9780739125113
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-2511-3
• No. of pages: 298
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Taiwan, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, Political structures: democracy, Political structures / systems: democracy