Stateness and Democracy in East Asia
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Stateness and Democracy in East Asia

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Stateness and Democracy in East Asia

About this book

Democratization and state building are fundamental political processes, yet scholars cannot agree on which process should be prioritized in order to put countries on a positive path of institutional development. Where much of the existing literature on the state-democracy nexus focuses on quantitative cross-national data, this volume offers a theoretically grounded regional analysis built around in-depth qualitative case studies. The chapters examine cases of successful democratic consolidation (South Korea, Taiwan), defective democracy (Philippines, Indonesia, East Timor), and autocratic reversal (Cambodia, Thailand). The book's evidence challenges the dominant 'state first, democracy later' argument, demonstrating instead that stateness is neither a sufficient nor a necessary condition for democratic consolidation. The authors not only show that democratization can become trapped in path-dependent processes, but also that the system-level organization of informal networks plays a key role in shaping the outcome of democratic transitions.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title page
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright page
  5. Contents
  6. List of Figures
  7. List of Tables
  8. List of Contributors
  9. Acknowledgements
  10. 1 Introduction: Rethinking Stateness and Democracy in East Asia
  11. 2 State-Building and Democratization: The Sequencing Debate and Evidence from East Asia
  12. 3 South Korea’s Democracy and the Legacies of the Developmental State
  13. 4 After Hegemony: State Capacity, the Quality of Democracy and the Legacies of the Party-State in Democratic Taiwan
  14. 5 Democratization Interrupted: The Parallel State and the Demise of Democracy in Thailand
  15. 6 Weak State and the Limits of Democratization in Cambodia, 1993–2017
  16. 7 The Institutional Roots of Defective Democracy in the Philippines
  17. 8 Stateness and State Capacity in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia: Securing Democracy’s Survival, Entrenching Its Low Quality
  18. 9 As Good as It Gets? Stateness and Democracy in East Timor
  19. 10 Stateness and Democracy: Evidence from East Asia and Cross-Regional Comparisons
  20. Index