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Communitarian Politics in Asia (Politics in Asia Series)

By Beng Huat Chua

Book information

Year
2004
ISBN
9780415334754, 0415334756, 0203417305, 9780203417300, 9780203692592
LCC
HM758 .C66 2004
Open Library ID
OL22582474M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1092406 bytes)
Edition
annotated edition
Pages
208\206
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

With the collapse of European socialism in the late 1980s, ascendancy of the liberal capitalist democracy and individual self-interest became prevalent in the West. In contrast, many polities in Asia, both by tradition and choice, have explicitly adopted communitarianism as a national ideology, for example Confucianism in Korea, Hong Kong and Japan, Islam in Malaysia and the Panca Sila in Indonesia. Here, communitarianism arguably informs public policies and political practices and the concept of the 'social' in terms of responsibilities and collective welfare is preserved.Communitarian Politics in Asia examines instances in southeast and east Asian countries where communitarianism is both articulated as national ideology and embedded as the ethos of social life and assesses the relative merits of a set of practices in their respective local political context. The book not only augments existing international debate on liberalism and communitarianism but also provides empirical examples of communitarian political practices that will substantiate and/or refute conceptual points, such as redistributive justice and costs to individuals, in this ongoing debate.

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