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Overview"Democracy (Made in Taiwan) argues that post-colonialism and Confucianism met at the historical moment when democratization and liberalization occurred in Taiwan. The familiar political science standards take little note of either Confucianism or postcolonialism. In fact, these standards are unbalanced, wishful, and Washington-centric, and result in a misunderstanding of Taiwan's performance. The liberal bias blinds international observers to the hybrid characteristics embedded in Taiwan's postcolonial history. Although this book is not about failing states per se, its criticism of the standards of success alludes to the problematic nature of the mainstream view of failing states. In many aspects, Taiwan is a disguised failure, or even a fake, in the sense that its democratization adopts a populist identity strategy rather than a liberal one. In addition, its foreign policy compliance to hegemonic leadership is characterized by anti-China determination, instead of a realist approach involving the calculation of power. Having said this, the book does not criticize Taiwan for ""failing"" liberalism, in order to prevent the liberal teleology from lingering on. Instead, Taiwan serves as an arena of polemics on political science in this book. By rewriting domestic liberalism and external realism into meanings unknown to the hegemonic power, Democracy (Made in Taiwan) celebrates Taiwan's postcolonial fluidity. Embedded in a kind of ontological anomaly beyond the scope of mainstream political science, which takes for granted the ontology informed by individualism in domestic politics and statism in international relations, Taiwan's case appears subversive not because of the subversive nature of postcoloniality, but due to the inability of political science's liberalism to make sense of postcoloniality. Through decoupling the idea of political science from the entity known as Taiwan, this book attempts to achieve two goals: to re-present Taiwan and to call for reflexive political science." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Chih-Yu ShihPublisher: Lexington Books Imprint: Lexington Books Dimensions: Width: 16.30cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 24.10cm Weight: 0.558kg ISBN: 9780739125113ISBN 10: 0739125117 Pages: 298 Publication Date: 17 January 2008 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsPart 1 Introduction: Political Theory and Taiwan Part 2 Part I: The Taiwan Success Revisited Chapter 3 Not about Human Rights Chapter 4 Not about Liberalism Part 5 Part II: The Rational Actor Backfire Chapter 6 The Loss of the Median Voter Chapter 7 The Loss of an Ally Part 8 Part III: Political Theory in Practice Chapter 9 Back from the Future Chapter 10 The World Timing of Un-Chinese Consciousness Part 11 Part IV: Two Theses on Confucian Democracy Chapter 12 Parenting Personality Chapter 13 Beyond the State-Society Divide Part 14 Conclusion: Political Theory for Democratic OntologyReviewsChih-yu Shih has established himself as one of the most original thinkers in the field of Chinese politics and foreign policy. In Democracy (Made in Taiwan) , Shih sets his sights on democracy in Taiwan today, which he finds to be a Potemkin village, a 'disguised failure.' Western Liberalism, furthermore, is complicit in this deceit. Democracy (Made in Taiwan) is sure to provoke debate among those brave enough to confront Shih s arguments.--Peter H. Gries Chih-yu Shih has established himself as one of the most original thinkers in the field of Chinese politics and foreign policy. In Democracy (Made in Taiwan), Shih sets his sights on democracy in Taiwan today, which he finds to be a Potemkin village, a 'disguised failure.' Western Liberalism, furthermore, is complicit in this deceit. Democracy (Made in Taiwan) is sure to provoke debate among those brave enough to confront Shih 's arguments.--Peter H. Gries Author InformationChih-Yu Shih is chair and professor in the Department of Political Science at National Taiwan University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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