Autore	Bell Daniel (Daniel A.), <1964->
Edizione	[Course Book]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, c2006
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (394 p.)
Disciplina	321.8095
Soggetto topico	Democracy - East Asia Human rights - East Asia Capitalism - East Asia
ISBN	1-282-12937-6 1-282-93545-3 9786612935459 9786612129377 1-4008-2746-9
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	One size doesn't fit all -- The uniquely parochial development of liberal democracy -- Human rights for an East Asian context -- Democracy for an East Asian context -- Capitalism for an East Asian context -- A note on the culturally sensitive approach to political theorizing -- Human rights for an East Asian context -- Just war and Confucianism : implications for the contemporary world -- The ideal world versus nonideal theory -- General Confucian principles of good government -- Mencius on just and unjust war -- Implications for contemporary societies -- Human rights and "values in Asia" : reflections on East-West dialogues -- Trade-offs and priorities -- Asian justifications for human rights -- Values in Asia versus Western liberalism : justifiable moral differences? -- Cross-cultural dialogues on human rights : what is the point? -- The ethical challenges of international human rights NGOs : reflections on dialogues between practitioners and theorists -- The challenge of cultural conflict -- The challenge of dealing with global poverty -- The challenge of dealing with states that restrict the activities of INGOs -- The challenge of fund-raising -- Implications for INGOs in East Asia -- Democracy for an East Asian context -- What's wrong with active citizenship? a comparison of physical education in ancient Greece and ancient China -- Two ancient civilizations -- Why compare state-sponsored physical education in the two ancient civilizations? -- Political competition and sports competition -- Commercial societies, leisure time, and the pursuit of physical excellence -- Implications for contemporary East Asian societies -- Taking elitism seriously : democracy with Confucian characteristics -- Political elitism and democracy : two important values -- Institutionalizing Confucian democracy -- Is democracy the "least bad" system for minority groups? -- Some definitions -- Democracy and nation building -- Implications for outside prodemocracy forces -- Democratic education in a multicultural context : lessons from Singapore -- Singapore's political history -- Racism in the classroom? -- Inclusive multiculturalism -- Beyond Singapore? -- Capitalism for an East Asian context -- Culture and egalitarian development : Confucian constraints on property rights -- On the selection of feasible and desirable Confucian values for modern societies -- The overriding value of material welfare -- The value of care for needy family members -- Exporting Confucianism? -- East Asian capitalism for an age of globalization -- East Asian capitalism and economic productivity -- East Asian capitalism and social welfare -- Implications for public policy -- Justice for migrant workers? the case of migrant domestic workers in East Asia -- The political concerns of foreign domestic workers in Hong Kong and Singapore -- Should foreign domestic workers be given equal rights? -- The role of culture -- Migrant domestic workers in mainland China -- Responses to critics : the real and the ideal.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910345152103321

Edizione	[1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Baltimore, Maryland : , : Project Muse, , 2020
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (329 pages) : : illustrations
Disciplina	320.95
Collana	Protest and social movements
Soggetto topico	Democracy - East Asia Civil society - East Asia
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
Soggetto non controllato	Civil society, state, entanglement, contention, East Asia
ISBN	90-485-5161-7
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	A new era of civil society and state in East Asian democracies / David Chiavacci and Simona A. Grano -- Interactions between environmental civil society and the state during the Ma Ying-jeou and Tsai Ing-wen administrations in Taiwan / Simona A. Grano -- Working with and around strong states : environmental networks in East Asia / Mary Alice Haddad -- The campaign for nuclear power in Japan before and after 2011 : between state, market and civil society / Tobias Weiss -- The 'pro-establishment' radical right : Japan's nativist movement reconsidered / Naoto Higuchi -- The religion-based conservative countermovement in Taiwan : origin, tactics and impacts / Ming-sho Ho -- The relationship between mainstream and movement parties in Taiwan : case studies of the New Power Party (NPP) and the Green Party Taiwan-Social Democratic Party Alliance (GPT/SDP) / Tommy Chung Yin Kwan and Dafydd Fell -- New immigration, civic activism and identity in Japan : influencing the 'strong' state / David Chiavacci -- Japanese NPOs and the state re-examined : reflections eighteen years on / Akihiro Ogawa -- Changing patterns of South Korean social movements, 1960s-2010s : testimony, firebombs, lawsuit and candlelight / Jin-Wook Shin -- Opening up the welfare state to 'outsiders' : pro-homeless activism and neoliberal backlashes in Japan / Mahito Hayashi -- Legal mobilization and the transformation of state-society relations in South Korea in the realm of disability policy / Celeste L. Arrington.
Record Nr.	UNISA-996352545103316

Pubbl/distr/stampa	London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2010
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (322 p.)
Disciplina	320.95
Altri autori (Persone)	ChuYin-wah WongSiu-lun
Collana	Politics in Asia
Soggetto topico	Democracy - East Asia
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-136-99110-7 1-282-58689-0 9786612586897 0-203-85451-9
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Contributors; Acknowledgments; 1 East Asia's new democracies: An introduction; Part I: Transition, consolidation, reversal: Actors then and now; 2 Social and political developments in China: Challenges for democratization; 3 Civil society and democracymaking in Taiwan: Reexamining the link; 4 The bottom-up nature of Korean democratization: Civil society, anti-Americanism and popular protest; 5 Modernization theory's last redoubt: Democratization in East and Southeast Asia 6 Development and change in Korean democracy since the democratic transition in 1987: The Three Kims' politics and after7 Thailand's conservative democratization; Part II: Democracy in East Asia?: Achievements and enduring challenges; 8 Democracy and disorder: Will democratization bring greater regional instability to East Asia?; 9 Democracy's double edge: Financing social policy in industrial East Asia; 10 Devolution and democracy: A fragile connection; 11 Rule of law and democracy: Lessons for China from Asian experiences; 12 Group rights and democracy in Southeast Asia 13 Diagnosing the micro foundation of democracy in Asia: Evidence from the AsiaBarometer survey, 2003-2008Index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910459076703321

Autore	Bell Daniel (Daniel A.)
Edizione	[Core Textbook]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, c2000
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (382 p.)
Disciplina	320.95
Soggetto topico	Human rights - East Asia Democracy - East Asia
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-4008-1512-6 1-4008-1099-X 1-282-75398-3 9786612753985 1-4008-2355-2
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I. THE EAST ASIAN CHALLENGE TO HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEMOCRACY: REFLECTIONS ON EAST-WEST DIALOGUES -- PART II. THE PROS AND CONS OF DEMOCRACY IN SINGAPORE: A FICTITIOUS DIALOGUE WITH LEE KUAN YEW -- PART III. DEMOCRACY WITH CHINESE CHARACTERISTICS -- Select Bibliography -- Index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910449758503321

Pubbl/distr/stampa	London : , : RoutledgeCurzon, , 2002
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (224 p.)
Disciplina	321.809
Altri autori (Persone)	ChristieKenneth CribbR. B
Collana	Politics/History
Soggetto topico	Democracy - East Asia Democracy - Europe, Northern
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-135-78969-X 1-138-99223-2 1-280-19529-0 0-203-22035-8
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Cover; HISTORICAL INJUSTICE AND DEMOCRATIC TRANSITION IN EASTERN ASIA ANDNORTHERN EUROPE; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Notes on contributors; 1 Introduction: remembering, forgetting and historical in justice; 2 Victim or victimizer: the reconstruction of the Cultural Revolution through personal stories; 3 The aftermath of the Cultural Revolution in Inner Mongolia; 4 Forgetting what it was to remember the Indonesian killings of 1965-6; 5 Remembering and forgetting at 'Lubang Buaya': the 'coup' of1965 in contemporary Indonesian historical perception and public commemoration 6 Causes and consequences of historical amnesia: the annexationof the Baltic states in post-Soviet Russian popular history and political memory7 Coming to terms with the past: memories of displacement and resistance in the Baltic states; 8 Transmitted experience: individual testimonies and collective memories of the Nanjing Atrocity; 9 Thirty thousand bullets: remembering political repression in Mongolia; 10 Coping with the Civil War of 1918 in twenty-first century Finland; 11 Civil War victims and the ways of mourning in Finland in 1918 12 Remembering the Finnish Civil War: confronting a harrowing pastIndex
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910450775603321