Middle Class, Civil Society and Democracy in Asia

Herausgeber: Hsiao, Hsin-Huang Michael

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Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a timely analysis of the tripartite links between the middle class, civil society and democratic experiences in Northeast and Southeast Asia. Using national case studies, it provides a new comparative typological interpretation of the triple relationship in Taiwan, South Korea, the Philippines, Indonesia and Thailand.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 505g
• ISBN-13: 9781138483675
• ISBN-10: 1138483672
• Artikelnr.: 53488313

Autorenporträt

Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao is Distinguished Research Fellow in the Institute of Sociology at Academia Sinica and Chair Professor at the National Central University, Taiwan. His recent publications include Citizens, Civil Society and Heritage-making in Asia (2017) and Coping with China Risk: The Challenge to Japanese, Korean and Taiwanese Firms (2016).

Inhaltsangabe

PART I: Overview 1. Comparing the tripartite links of middle class, civil
society and democratization in Asia: Positive, Dubious and Negative,
Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao PART II: The Positive Links in Taiwan and South
Korea 2. The tripartite links of middle class, civil society and democracy
in Taiwan: 1980-2016, Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao 3. Democracy and
institutional building through civil society activism in Taiwan: the case
of Judicial Reform Foundation, Mau-Kuei Chang 4. The tripartite links of
middle class, civil society and democratization in South Korea, Yoon-Chul
Park PART III: The Dubious Links in the Philippines and Indonesia 5. The
middle class-led left movement in civil society's role in the Philippines'
democratization process, Teresa S. Encarnacion Tadem 6. Coaltion politics
and the contested democracy in the Philippines, Yusuke Takagi 7.
Democratization and religious NGOs in Indonesia, Jafar Suryomenggolo PART
IV: The Negative Links in Thailand 8. Contingent authoritarians: why Thai
civil society and the middle class oppose democracy, Veerayooth Kanchoochat
9. Thailand at the critical royal transition period: The middle class,
civil society and democratisation, Pavin Chachavalpongpun 10. From paragons
to opponents of democracy: middle class in civil society's role in
Thailand's democratization, Hugh Pei-Hsiu Chen