| Author | : Aurel Croissant |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 293 |
| Release | : 2020-05-21 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 1108495745 |
Comparative analysis of case studies across East Asia provides new insights into the relationship between state building, stateness, and democracy.
| Author | : Aurel Croissant |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 293 |
| Release | : 2020-05-21 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 110885169X |
Democratization and state building are fundamental political processes, yet scholars cannot agree on which process should be prioritized in order to put countries on a positive path of institutional development. Where much of the existing literature on the state-democracy nexus focuses on quantitative cross-national data, this volume offers a theoretically grounded regional analysis built around in-depth qualitative case studies. The chapters examine cases of successful democratic consolidation (South Korea, Taiwan), defective democracy (Philippines, Indonesia, East Timor), and autocratic reversal (Cambodia, Thailand). The book's evidence challenges the dominant 'state first, democracy later' argument, demonstrating instead that stateness is neither a sufficient nor a necessary condition for democratic consolidation. The authors not only show that democratization can become trapped in path-dependent processes, but also that the system-level organization of informal networks plays a key role in shaping the outcome of democratic transitions.
| Author | : Weitseng Chen |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 409 |
| Release | : 2020-07-16 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1108496687 |
Provides an intra-Asia comparative perspective of authoritarian legality, with a focus on formation, development, transition and post-transition stages.
| Author | : Michael Coppedge |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 377 |
| Release | : 2012-06-25 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0521537274 |
Democratization and Research Methods summarizes what researchers know about why countries become and remain democracies, and why they often do not. It also evaluates the various methods social scientists use to answer such questions. Michael Coppedge draws lessons that can be applied to any political phenomenon that is studied comparatively.
| Author | : Aurel Croissant |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 453 |
| Release | : 2017-12-26 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 3319681826 |
This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the political systems of all ASEAN countries and Timor-Leste from a comparative perspective. It investigates the political institutions, actors and processes in eleven states, covering democracies as well as autocratic regimes. Each country study includes an analysis of the current system of governance, the party and electoral system, and an assessment of the state, its legal system and administrative bodies. Students of political science and regional studies will also learn about processes of democratic transition and autocratic persistence, as well as how civil society and the media influence the political culture in each country.
| Author | : Aurel Croissant |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 510 |
| Release | : 2022-09-01 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 3031051149 |
This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the political systems of all ASEAN countries and Timor-Leste from a comparative perspective. It investigates the political institutions, actors, and processes in eleven states, covering democracies as well as autocratic regimes. Each country study includes an analysis of the current system of governance, the party and electoral system, and an assessment of the state, its legal system, and administrative bodies. Students of political science and area studies also learn about processes of democratic transition and autocratic resilience, as well as how civil society and the media influence the political culture in each country. This second edition features revised and updated versions of all country studies and a new chapter that discusses the trends of democratization and autocratization in Southeast Asia in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
| Author | : Filip Milačić |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 194 |
| Release | : 2022-07-18 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 3031048229 |
This book argues that the unresolved stateness in the republics of the former Yugoslavia played a key role in determining the course and dynamics of their turbulent democratic transition. To support this claim, the authors develop a series of causal mechanisms. Subsequently, they analyze to what extent these causal mechanisms could be applied to other cases, like the one of Ukraine’s democratization. The book presents a theoretical framework, as well as conclusions and arguments that are instrumental for the better understanding of the democratization process in general, which could be useful for other countries to avoid the mistakes that were made in the cases of former Yugoslav republics. It, therefore, is a must-read for researchers and scholars of political science, as well as practitioners and policy-makers, interested in a better understanding of democratization, transformation processes, nation-building, and stateness.
| Author | : Aurel Croissant |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 295 |
| Release | : 2023-04-07 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1000867323 |
This book examines the public health responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in the Asia-Oceania region and their implications for democratic backsliding in the period January 2020 to mid-2021. The contributions discuss three key questions: How did political institutions in Asia-Oceania create incentives for effective public health responses to the COVID-19 outbreak? How did state capacities enhance governments’ ability to implement public health responses? How have governance responses affected the democratic quality of political institutions and processes? Together, the analyses reveal the extent to which institutions prompted an effective public health response and highlights that a high-capacity state was not a necessary condition for containing the spread of COVID-19 during the early phase of the pandemic. By combining quantitative and qualitative analyses, the volume also shows that the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the quality of democratic institutions has been uneven across Asia-Oceania. Guided by a comprehensive theoretical framework, this will be an invaluable resource for scholars and students of political science, policy studies, public health and Asian studies.
| Author | : Mark Beeson |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 392 |
| Release | : 2003-09-02 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1134599870 |
The contributors to this book argue vigorously that processes of globalisation are driven by complex political forces and that it is not enough to look at economic factors in isolation.
