Democratization in China, Korea and Southeast Asia?: Local and National Perspectives (Politics in Asia). Cet article n’est pas disponible.Democratization in China, Korea and Southeast Asia?: Local and National Perspectives (Politics in Asia)

This book demonstrates how careful examinations of current developments in East Asia indicate a need for major expansion of our understandings of democracy and democratization, and challenges the traditional way in which political regimes are conceived and labelled. It shows from Asian experiences that democracy and its precursors come in more forms than most liberals have yet imagined. In reviewing the experiences of states across East Asia, this book shows that actual democracies and ostensible democratizations in Asia are less like those in the West than the surprisingly consensual standard political science of democratization suggests.

Kate Xiao Zhou is Professor of Political Science at the University of Hawaii, USA.

Shelley Rigger is Brown Professor and Chair of Political Science at Davidson College, USA.

Lynn T. White III is Professor Emeritus of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University, USA.