Rising China and Asian Democratization

Daniel C. Lynch is Associate Professor of International Relations at the University of Southern California. He is also the author of After the Propaganda State: Media, Politics, and "Thought Work" in Reformed China(Stanford, 1999).

出版者:Stanford University Press

作者:Daniel Lynch

页数:320

出版时间:2006-7-7

价格:USD 65.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780804753944

丛书系列:CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN ASIA AND THE PACIFIC

图书标签:政治学民主转型比较政治中国政治东南亚研究中国研究英文原版海外中国研究

This book argues that democratization is inherently international: states democratize through a process of socialization to a liberal-rational global culture. This can clearly be seen in Taiwan and Thailand, where the elites and attentive public now accept democracy as universally valid. But in China, the ruling communist party resists democratization, in part because its leaders believe it would lead to China's "permanent decentering" in world history. As China's power increases, the party could begin restructuring global culture by inspiring actors in other Asian countries to uphold or restore authoritarian rule.