SemesterSpring Semester, 2018
DepartmentInternational Doctor Program in Asia-Pacific Studies, First Year International Doctor Program in Asia-Pacific Studies, Second Year
Course NameDemocracy and Democratisation in East and South Asia
InstructorWEI MEI-CHUAN
Credit3.0
Course TypeElective
Prerequisite
Course Objective
Course Description
Course Schedule

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:




  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. Beetham, David, 1994, ‘Introduction’, in D. Beetham (ed.), Defining and Measuring Democracy (London: Sage)



* Suggested readings:




  1. Westad, O. R., 2005, The Global Cold War (Cambridge: CUP)

  2. Zakaria, Fareed, 2004, The Future of Freedom: Liberal Democracy at Home and Abroad (N.Y.: Norton)

  3. 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:




  1. Held, David, 2000, ‘The development of liberal democracy: For and against the state’, Model of Democracy (2 edn.), (Cambridge: Polity Press)

  2. Parekh, Bhikhu, 1996, ‘The cultural particularity of liberal democracy’, in David Held (eds.), 1996, Prospects for Democracy(Cambridge: Polity Press)

  3. 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:




  1. 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)

  2. Bullock, Robert W., 2000, ‘Japan’, in Jeffrey Kopstein and Mark Lichbach (eds.), Comparative Politics (Cambridge: CUP)

  3. 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:




  1. Sarkar, Sumit, 2001, ‘Indian democracy: the historical inheritance’, in Atul Kohli (ed.), The Success of India’s Democracy (Cambridge: CUP)

  2. 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

  3. 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:




  1. Brass, P., 1999, ‘India: democratic progress and problems’, in Harrison, et al (eds.), India and Pakistan: the First Fifty Years (Cambridge: CUP)

  2. 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)

  3. 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:




  1. Chadda, M., Building Democracy in South Asia: India, Nepal, Pakistan (N. Y.: Rienner)

  2. 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:




  1. Potter, David, 1997, ‘Explaining democratization’, in David Potter et al (eds.), Democratization (Cambridge: Polity)

  2. Potter, David, 1997, ‘Democratization at the same time in South Korea and Taiwan’, in David Potter et al (eds.), Democratization (Cambridge: Polity)

  3. 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:




  1. 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)

  2. 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)

  3. 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:




  1. Meisner, M., 1996, The Deng Xiaoping Era: An Inquiry into the Fate of Chinese Socialism, 197894, Hill & Wang

  2. Dirlik, A., 1994, After the Revolution: Waking to Global Capitalism, Wesleyan UP

  3. 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:




  1. Tang, W., 2005, Public Opinion and Political Change in China, Stanford UP

  2. 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

  3. 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:




  1. 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)

  2. Mohapatra, Bishnu N., 2002, ‘Democratic citizenship and minority rights’, in C. Kinnvall and K. Jönsson (eds.), Globalization and Democratization in Asia (London: Routledge)

  3. 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:



 




  1. Przeworski, Adam, 1993, ‘The neoliberal fallacy’, in Larry Diamond and Marc Plattner (eds.), Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy Revisited (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP)

  2. Randall, Vicky, 1997, ‘Why have the political trajectories of India and China been different’, in David Potter et al (ed.), Democratization (Cambridge: Polity Press)

  3. 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)

  4. 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:




  1. Christie, K. and D. Roy, 2001, The Politics of Human Rights in East Asia, Pluto (chapter to be selected)

  2. Bell, D. A., 2000, East Meets West: Human Rights and Democracy in East Asia, Princeton UP (chapter to be selected)

  3. Bauer, J. and D. A. Bell, 1999, eds. The East Asian Challenge for Human Rights, Cambridge UP (chapter to be selected)

  4. Sen, A., 1999, “Democracy as a universal value”, Journal of Democracy, 10:3

  5. 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:




  1. Lipset, M., 1996, “The centrality of political culture”, in L. Diamond and M. Platner, eds. The Global Resurgence of Democracy, John Hopkins UP

  2. Parekh, B., 1994, “Cultural diversity and liberal democracy”, in D. Beetham, Defining and Measuring Democracy

  3. Sen, A., 2004, “Passage to China”, New York Review of Books 51:19, 2 Dec 2004

  4. Zakaria, F., 1994, “Culture is destiny: a conversation with Lee Kuan Yew”, Foreign Affairs 73:2, Mar/Apr 1994

  5. Kim Dae Jung, “Is culture destiny? The myth of Asia’s anti-democratic values”, Foreign Affairs, Nov/Dec 1994

  6. 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:




  1. Johnson, C., 2003, “The looting of Asia”, London Review of Books, 20 Nov 2003

  2. Leifer, M., 2000, ed. Asian Nationalism, Routledge (chapter to be selected)

  3. Brook T. and A. Schmid, 2000, eds. Nation Work: Asia Elites and National Identities, U of Michigan Press (chapter to be selected)

  4. Cumings, B., 1999, Parallax Visions: Making Sense of American-East Asian Relations at the End of the Century, Duke UP (chapter to be selected)

  5. Plattner, M. and A Smolar, 2000, eds. Globalization, Power and Democracy, John Hopkins UP (chapters to be selected)



* Suggested:




  1. Gardner, L. and M Young, 2005, eds. The New American Empire: A 21st-Century Teach-in on US Foreign Polity, New Press

  2. Held, D. and A G McGrew, 2003, eds. The Global Transformations Reader: An Introduction to the Globalization Debate, Polity Press



 


Teaching Methods
Teaching Assistant
Requirement/Grading

  1. Students are required to submit one essay (term paper) of around 3000 words at the end of the semester, make presentations, and participate in class discussion.

  2. For writing the term paper, students can choose an essay question from the list of essay questions prepared by the teacher

  3. Final grades are calculated as follows: final paper accounts for 50% out of 100%; class participation, including presentation and discussion, accounts for 50% out of 100%.


Textbook & Reference

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