Democratization in China, Korea, and Southeast Asia? Local and national perspectives

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Cover Democratization in China, Korea, and Southeast Asia? Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents List of figures List of tables List of contributors Acknowledgments 1 Diverse routes to democracy: an introduction Part I Variety among Asian democracies and democratizations 2 South Korean democracy in light of Taiwan 3 Taiwan’s democratization and mainland China’s future 4 Strategic hypocrisy: sovereignty, legitimacy, and commerce in archipelagic Southeast Asia 5 Democracy and inequality in Thailand: the rise of the Red Shirts Part II Constitutional and legal proto-democratic changes in China 6 The local factor in China’s intra-party democracy 7 Why does China’s reform start in the provinces? De facto federalism and its limits 8 Law and democracy in China: a complex relationship 9 Suing the government in China 10 Petitioning as policy making: Chinese rural tax reform Part III Proto-democratization in Chinese civil society 11 The fragmented state in action: the production and governance of art districts in Beijing 12 China invests overseas: does the strong state help China’s outbound investment? 13 All the news, all the politics: sophisticated propaganda in capitalist-authoritarian China 14 Chinese nationalism reconsidered—or, a case for historicizing the study of Chinese politics 15 How the internet is changing China Index