Big government sentiment and support for protectionism in East Asia

2017 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-89
Author(s):  
Wen-Chin Wu
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Developmental State ◽  
Policy Preference ◽  
Trade Policies ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
Third Wave ◽  
East Asians ◽  
The Third ◽  
Individual Preferences

While previous studies find that individual preferences for trade policies are shaped by economic and non-economic factors, it is still unclear whether people’s perception of their government’s role in citizens’ lives affects their attitudes toward free trade. In view of the “developmental state” legacy in East Asia, I investigate how the “big government sentiment” in East Asians’ mindset is associated with their support for protectionism. Based on the data of the third-wave Asian Barometer Survey conducted during 2010 and 2012, I find that when people think that government should bear a major responsibility for the wellbeing of its people, they are more supportive of protectionist policies. This finding contributes to studies of East Asian political economy as well as the formation of individual trade policy preference.

Liberal democracy as the end of history

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-153 ◽  
Author(s):  
Doh Chull Shin ◽  
Hannah June Kim
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Liberal Democracy ◽  
Political System ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Asian Population ◽  
Third Wave ◽  
Conceptual Tool ◽  
End Of History ◽  
The Third ◽  
The End Of History

A growing number of political scientists have recently advocated the theses that democracy has emerged as a universal value and that it is also becoming the universally preferred system of government. Do most people in East Asia prefer democracy to nondemocratic systems, as advocates of these Western theses claim? Do they embrace liberal democracy as the most preferred system as they become socioeconomically modernized and culturally liberalized? To address these questions, we first propose a typology of privately concealed political system preferences as a new conceptual tool in order to ascertain their types and subtypes without using the word “democracy”. By means of this typology, we analyze the third wave of the Asian Barometer Survey conducted in 12 democratic and nondemocratic countries. The analysis reveals that a hybrid system, not liberal democracy, is the most preferred system even among the culturally liberalized and socioeconomically modernized segments of the East Asian population. Our results show that the increasingly popular theses of universal and liberal democratization serve merely in East Asia as prodemocracy rhetoric, not as theoretically meaningful propositions.

State-Led Capitalism in East Asia

2019 ◽  
pp. 187-235
Author(s):  
Thomas Kalinowski
Keyword(s):  
International Economic ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
East Asia ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Developmental State ◽  
The Political ◽  
World Region ◽  
The Third ◽  
The World ◽  
The Third World

East Asia is the third world region that is crucial for an investigation of international economic conflicts and cooperation. The rise of East Asia as the ‘factory of the world’ since the 1970s is as important for the global political economy as US-led financial globalization and European integration. This chapter begins with an explanation of East Asia’s role in the trilemma triangle and then turns to an analysis of the historic genesis of the East Asian (developmental) state-led model of capitalism. We then investigate the economic origins of the East Asian success story and in particular the formation of large export-oriented business conglomerates. Finally, we look at the political foundation of the East Asian model, which can be described as an authoritarian corporatist model that is shaped by the alliance of state and business at the expense of labour.

The Colonial Documentary Film in South and South-East Asia

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Documentary Film ◽  
East Asian ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Historical Perspectives ◽  
The Third ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Global Understanding

Writing from a wide range of historical perspectives, contributors to the anthology shed new light on historical, theoretical and empirical issues pertaining to the documentary film, in order to better comprehend the significant transformations of the form in colonial, late colonial and immediate post-colonial and postcolonial times in South and South-East Asia. In doing so, this anthology addresses an important gap in the global understanding of documentary discourses, practices, uses and styles. Based upon in-depth essays written by international authorities in the field and cutting-edge doctoral projects, this anthology is the first to encompass different periods, national contexts, subject matter and style in order to address important and also relatively little-known issues in colonial documentary film in the South and South-East Asian regions. This anthology is divided into three main thematic sections, each of which crosses national or geographical boundaries. The first section addresses issues of colonialism, late colonialism and independence. The second section looks at the use of the documentary film by missionaries and Christian evangelists, whilst the third explores the relation between documentary film, nationalism and representation.

scholarly journals EAST ASIAN PATHWAYS TOWARD DEMOCRACY: A QUALITATIVE COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF “THE THIRD WAVE”

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 239-260 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shinan Hao ◽  
Qiqi Gao
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Qualitative Comparative Analysis ◽  
Authoritarian Regime ◽  
Third Wave ◽  
Mass Mobilization ◽  
Democratic Transitions ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
The Third ◽  
Joint Forces

AbstractWhat drove the East Asian tide of democratization during the “Third Wave?” Instead of focusing on a single-factor explanation, we perform qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) on fourteen cases in the region of East Asia from 1980 to 2000 and find three parallel pathways: (1) overthrow model, which features the positive effects of mass mobilization against authoritarianism under a deinstitutionalized authoritarian regime; (2) urban pressure model that works under an institutionalized authoritarian regime; and (3) inside-out model, in which democratization is triggered by the joint forces of domestic and international conditions under both types of regimes. These results demonstrate that the authoritarianstatus quo anteis an important determinant of democratic transitions.

Contemplating the Future of Collective Security in East Asia

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 84-91
Author(s):  
Nanako Shimizu
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
International Law ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Security System ◽  
Collective Security ◽  
East Asians ◽  
National Sovereignty ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
Peace And Security

Abstract It is quite often argued in the legal and political literatures that Asian nations tend to be more protective of their national sovereignty and thus are often reluctant to follow universal rules or principles provided in international legal materials and texts. Does this “conservative” image of Asian nations correctly reflect the national practices and academic literature of East Asian nations? How do we East Asians perceive the UN collective security system invented at the price of two catastrophic world wars in the 20th century? And why do East Asians need international law to keep peace and security in this region? By trying to find answers to these questions, this article contemplates what role international law will be able to play for the maintenance of peace and security in East Asia.

Conference, Arbitration and the Triple Intervention of 1895: Relevance of the Western Ways of Dispute Settlement in East Asia

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-83
Author(s):  
Iwao Fujisawa
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
International Law ◽  
Dispute Settlement ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Peace Process ◽  
Legal Institutions ◽  
East Asians

Abstract This article attempts to understand how East Asian nations dealt with the norms and concepts of Western international law and for that purpose takes up the peace process of the Sino-Japanese War. It argues that in that incident neither China nor Japan passively accepted the methods of dispute settlement developed in Western international law and that rather those countries tried to pick and choose among the legal institutions of that law according to their respective interests. This article concludes that the incident suggests Western international law was not immune to changes through the interaction between Europeans and East Asians in the process of its expansion.

Pluralistic Pedagogy for Pluralism

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hsiao-Lan Hu
Keyword(s):  
East Asian ◽  
Third Wave ◽  
East Asians ◽  
Academic Preparedness ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Asian Religions ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Different Levels

East Asians typically do not consider Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism in exclusive terms; they are often pluralistic in terms of being Confucian, Daoist, and Buddhist at the same time. As such an East Asian myself, I have drawn much from each of these traditions in my own teaching. Combined with third-wave feminism’s emphasis on diversity, my pluralistic background has driven me to design my teaching to accommodate students of different levels of academic preparedness as well as various intellectual and spiritual leanings. Such pluralism-informed pedagogy works best in courses that deal with multiple religious traditions, such as my “Asian Religions” and “Gender and Religion” courses. Pluralism is best taught when the instructor’s understanding of pluralism is reflected in the pedagogy.

Political Institutions and the Malaise of East Asian New Democracies

2003 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tun-jen Cheng
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
East Asia ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
Democratic Transition ◽  
East Asian ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
New Democracies ◽  
Third Wave ◽  
Policy Action

Although quite a few third-wave democracies in Southern and Central Europe became consolidated within a decade of their origin, all of those in East Asia are still fragile and fledgling. Ever since South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, and the Philippines embarked on democratic transition or restoration more than a decade ago, elections have been regularly held, and democratic competition is widely considered the only path to power. Rough edges remain, however. Rules are stretched, even bent. Political stalemate tends to delay, if not prevent, timely policy action. And public cynicism toward underperforming, if not malfunctioning, democracy in these four polities is so pervasive and unnerving that pundits warn against a crisis of governance in East Asia's new democracies.

Arrested Development?

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andy Sumner
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
State Intervention ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
Third Wave ◽  
International Capital ◽  
The Third ◽  
Political Forces ◽  
Liberal Approach ◽  
Second Wave

In this chapter, we discuss the third wave of developmentalism in South East Asia, which was a post-Lewis transition or even a ‘premature’ deindustrialization. There was a divergence across Malaysia, Indonesia, and Thailand in terms of managing Kuznetsian forces. The period begins with the crisis of the second wave of structural transformation and capital accumulation in the late 1990s. We identify the next incarnation of developmentalism in a nascent, new developmentalism and the ascendancy of Polanyi’s regulator or handmaiden, in the form of state intervention in the economy and a less liberal approach to international capital. The period has also been one of emerging democratic and popular political forces.

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