Week 1 no class
Week 2 Course introduction and overview
* Suggested reading:
Ian Bremmer, 2010, The End of the Free Market: Who Wins the War Between States and Corporations? (N. Y.: Portfolio)
General themes about democracy in Asia (I): Democracy and
liberal democracy
Readings:
- Diamond, Larry, 2011, ‘East Asia amid the Receding Tide of the Third Wave of Democracy’, paper presented at International Conference on Democracy in East Asia and Taiwan in Global Perspective’, Aug. 24-25, 2011, Taipei, Taiwan.
- Fukuyama, Francis, 2011, ‘The Historical Pattern of Political Development in East Asia’, paper presented at International Conference on Democracy in East Asia and Taiwan in Global Perspective’, Aug. 24-25, 2011, Taipei, Taiwan.
- Beetham, David, 1994, ‘Introduction’, in D. Beetham (ed.), Defining and Measuring Democracy (London: Sage)
* Suggested readings:
- Westad, O. R., 2005, The Global Cold War (Cambridge: CUP)
- Zakaria, Fareed, 2004, The Future of Freedom: Liberal Democracy at Home and Abroad (N.Y.: Norton)
- Weale, Albert, 1999, ‘Introduction: Democracy and Political Theory’, Democracy (London: MacMillan Press Ltd.)
Week 3 General themes about democracy in Asia (II): Democracy and
modernization
Readings:
- Held, David, 2000, ‘The development of liberal democracy: For and against the state’, Model of Democracy (2 edn.), (Cambridge: Polity Press)
- Parekh, Bhikhu, 1996, ‘The cultural particularity of liberal democracy’, in David Held (eds.), 1996, Prospects for Democracy(Cambridge: Polity Press)
- Weale, Albert, 1999, ‘Varieties of Democracy’, Democracy (London: MacMillan Press Ltd.)
Week 4 Japanese democracy: External engineering, party politics and
bureaucracy
* Film: The Emperor (political history of Japan after the end of WWII under the American occupation)
Readings:
- Dower, John, 1999, ‘Introduction’, ‘Engineering Growth’, and ‘Legacies/Fantasies/Dreams’, in John Dower, Embracing Defeat: Japan in the aftermath of World War II (London: Penguin)
- Bullock, Robert W., 2000, ‘Japan’, in Jeffrey Kopstein and Mark Lichbach (eds.), Comparative Politics (Cambridge: CUP)
- Lipset, M, 1994, ‘Binary comparisons: American exceptionalism—Japanese uniqueness’, in M. Dogan and A. Kazancigil (eds.), Comparing Nations (Oxford: Blackwell)
* Suggested readings:
1. Potter, David, 1996, ‘Democratization in Asia’, in David Held (ed.), Prospects for Democracy (Cambridge: Polity Press)
Week 5 Indian democracy: colonial legacy, modernisation,
and governability (I) ?
Readings:
- Sarkar, Sumit, 2001, ‘Indian democracy: the historical inheritance’, in Atul Kohli (ed.), The Success of India’s Democracy (Cambridge: CUP)
- Lijpart, Arend, 1996, ‘The Puzzle of Indian Democracy: A Consociational Interpretation’, The American Political Science Review, Vol. 90, No. 2, Jun. 1996, pp. 258-268
- Varshney, A., 1998, ‘India defies the odds: why democracy survives’, Journal of Democracy, Vol. 19, No. 3, 1998
* Suggested readings:
1. Brown, J., 1985, Modern India: The Origins of an Asian Democracy (Oxford: OUP)
Week 6 no class
Week 7 Indian democracy: colonial legacy, modernisation,
and governability (II)
Readings:
- Brass, P., 1999, ‘India: democratic progress and problems’, in Harrison, et al (eds.), India and Pakistan: the First Fifty Years (Cambridge: CUP)
- Das Gupta, Jyotirindra, 1995, ‘India: Democratic Becoming and Developmental Transition’, in L. Diamond, J. Linz and M. Lipset (eds.)(1995), Politics in Developing Countries: Comparing Experiences with Democracy (Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Rienner)
- Ray, Aswini K., 2002, ‘Globalization and democratic governance: The Indian experience’, in C. Kinnvall and K. Jönsson (eds.), Globalization and Democratization in Asia: the Construction of Identity (London: Routledge)
* Suggested readings:
1. Kohli, Atul, 1990, Democracy and Discontent: India’s Growing Crisis of Governability (Cambridge: CUP)
2. Kohli, Atul (ed.), 2001, The Success of India’s Democracy (Cambridge: CUP)
Week 8 Democracy and authoritarianism in South Asia
* Film: The Day When India Burned (history of 1947 partition in India)
Readings:
- Chadda, M., Building Democracy in South Asia: India, Nepal, Pakistan (N. Y.: Rienner)
- Cooper, F., 2005, Colonialism in Question: Theory, Knowledge, History (California: U of California Press)
Week 9 Democratisation in the NICs: state capacity and regime change
(I): South Korea and Taiwan
* Film: Formosa Betrayed (history of democratisation in postwar Taiwan)
Readings:
- Potter, David, 1997, ‘Explaining democratization’, in David Potter et al (eds.), Democratization (Cambridge: Polity)
- Potter, David, 1997, ‘Democratization at the same time in South Korea and Taiwan’, in David Potter et al (eds.), Democratization (Cambridge: Polity)
- Leftwich, A., 1995, ‘Bringing the state back in: towards a model of the developmental state,’ Journal of Development Studies, Vol. 3, No. 13, Feb. 1995
* Suggested readings:
1. Robinson, M., and G. White (eds.), 1998, The Democratic Developmental State: Politics and Institutional Design (Oxford: OUP)
Week10 Democratisation in the NICs: state capacity and regime change
(II): Singapore and Hong Kong
* Film: Ten Years (the future of Hong Kong under the rule of PRC)
Readings:
- Ng, Margaret, 1998, ‘Why Asia needs democracy: a view from Hong Kong’, in Larry Diamond and Marc F. Plattner (eds.), Democracy in East Asia (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP)
- Bell, Daniel A. and Jayasuriya, Kanishka, 1995, ‘Understanding illiberall democracy: a framework’, in Daniel Bell, David Brown, Kanishka Jayasuriya and David Martin Jones (eds.), Towards Illiberal Democracy in Asia Pacific (London: MacMillan)
- Cotton, James, 1997, ‘East Asian democracy: progress and limits’, in Larry Diamond et al (eds.), Consolidating the Third Wave Democracies (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press)
* Suggested readings:
1. Hill, M. and L. K. Fee, The Politics of Nation Building and Citizenship in Singapore (London: Routledge)
2. Chan, Ming, 1997, ‘The legacy of British administration of Hong Kong: a view from Hong Kong’, China Quarterly, No. 151, 1997
Week 11 Debating democracy in China (I)
Readings:
- Meisner, M., 1996, The Deng Xiaoping Era: An Inquiry into the Fate of Chinese Socialism, 197894, Hill & Wang
- Dirlik, A., 1994, After the Revolution: Waking to Global Capitalism, Wesleyan UP
- Womack, B., 1991, “In search of democracy: public authority and popular power in China”, in ed. Contemporary Chinese Politics in Historical Perspective, Cambridge UP
*Suggested: X Zhang, 2001, ed. Wither China: Intellectual Politics in Contemporary China, Duke UP
Week 12 Debating democracy in China (II)
Readings:
- Tang, W., 2005, Public Opinion and Political Change in China, Stanford UP
- Cheek, T., 1998, “From market to democracy in China: gaps in the civil society model”, in J Lindau and Cheek, 1998 Market Economics and Political Change, Rowman & Littlefield
- Howell, J., 2004, “New directions in civil society: organising around marginalised interest”, in ed. Governance in China, Rowman & Littlefield, 2004, pp.143-71
Week 13 Ethnic, religious and linguistic politics and democratization
Readings:
1. Wolpert, Stanley, 1999, ‘India, the Multicultural Paradigm’, Orbis, Vol. 43, No. 4, Fall 1999, pp. 575-79
2. Dreyer, June Teufel, ‘China, the Multicultural Paradigm’, Orbis, Vol. 43, No. 4, Fall 1999, pp. 581-97.
3. Manor, James, 1998, ‘India Defies the Odds: Making Federalism Work’, Journal of Democracy, Vol. 9, No. 3, July 1998.
Week 14 Multiculturalism and democracy
Readings:
- Kymlicka, Will, 2005, ‘Liberal multiculturalism: Western models, global trends, and Asian debates’, in Will Kymlicka and Baogang He(eds.), Multiculturalism in Asia (Oxford: Oxford UP)
- Mohapatra, Bishnu N., 2002, ‘Democratic citizenship and minority rights’, in C. Kinnvall and K. Jönsson (eds.), Globalization and Democratization in Asia (London: Routledge)
- Dasgupta, J., 2001, ‘India’s federal design and multicultural national construction’, in Atul Kohli (ed.), The Success of India’s Democracy (Cambridge: CUP)
Week 15 Democracy, development and gender
Readings:
- Przeworski, Adam, 1993, ‘The neoliberal fallacy’, in Larry Diamond and Marc Plattner (eds.), Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy Revisited (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP)
- Randall, Vicky, 1997, ‘Why have the political trajectories of India and China been different’, in David Potter et al (ed.), Democratization (Cambridge: Polity Press)
- Clark, Cal and Lee, Rose J., 2000, ‘Women’s Status in East Asia’, in Rose J. Lee and Cal Clark (eds.), Democracy & the Status of Women in East Asia (London: Lynne Reinner)
- Ling, L.H.M., 2000, ‘The limit of democratization for women in east Asia’, in Rose J. Lee and Cal Clark (eds.), Democracy & the Status of Women in East Asia (London: Lynne Reinner)
Week 16 Democracy and human rights
Readings:
- Christie, K. and D. Roy, 2001, The Politics of Human Rights in East Asia, Pluto (chapter to be selected)
- Bell, D. A., 2000, East Meets West: Human Rights and Democracy in East Asia, Princeton UP (chapter to be selected)
- Bauer, J. and D. A. Bell, 1999, eds. The East Asian Challenge for Human Rights, Cambridge UP (chapter to be selected)
- Sen, A., 1999, “Democracy as a universal value”, Journal of Democracy, 10:3
- Van Ness, P., 1999, ed. Debating Human Rights: Critical Essays from the United States and Asia, Routledge (chapter to be selected)
Week 17 Democracy and legitimacy
Readings:
- Lipset, M., 1996, “The centrality of political culture”, in L. Diamond and M. Platner, eds. The Global Resurgence of Democracy, John Hopkins UP
- Parekh, B., 1994, “Cultural diversity and liberal democracy”, in D. Beetham, Defining and Measuring Democracy
- Sen, A., 2004, “Passage to China”, New York Review of Books 51:19, 2 Dec 2004
- Zakaria, F., 1994, “Culture is destiny: a conversation with Lee Kuan Yew”, Foreign Affairs 73:2, Mar/Apr 1994
- Kim Dae Jung, “Is culture destiny? The myth of Asia’s anti-democratic values”, Foreign Affairs, Nov/Dec 1994
- Fukuyama, F., 1995, “Confucianism and democracy”, Journal of Democracy, 6:2, 1995
* Suggested: Pye, L., 1985, Asian Power and Politics: The Cultural Dimensions of Authority, Harvard UP (chapters to be selected)
Week 18 Democracy and globalisation
Readings:
- Johnson, C., 2003, “The looting of Asia”, London Review of Books, 20 Nov 2003
- Leifer, M., 2000, ed. Asian Nationalism, Routledge (chapter to be selected)
- Brook T. and A. Schmid, 2000, eds. Nation Work: Asia Elites and National Identities, U of Michigan Press (chapter to be selected)
- Cumings, B., 1999, Parallax Visions: Making Sense of American-East Asian Relations at the End of the Century, Duke UP (chapter to be selected)
- Plattner, M. and A Smolar, 2000, eds. Globalization, Power and Democracy, John Hopkins UP (chapters to be selected)
* Suggested:
- Gardner, L. and M Young, 2005, eds. The New American Empire: A 21st-Century Teach-in on US Foreign Polity, New Press
- Held, D. and A G McGrew, 2003, eds. The Global Transformations Reader: An Introduction to the Globalization Debate, Polity Press
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