Deepening democracy in Taiwan
In: Pacific affairs, Band 76, Heft 2, S. 235-256
ISSN: 0030-851X
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In: Pacific affairs, Band 76, Heft 2, S. 235-256
ISSN: 0030-851X
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In: Journal of east Asian studies, Band 2, Heft 2, S. 192-195
ISSN: 2234-6643
In: Journal of contemporary China, Band 10, Heft 27, S. 339-362
ISSN: 1469-9400
In: Journal of contemporary China, Band 10, Heft 27, S. 339-362
ISSN: 1067-0564
In: Journal of contemporary China, Band 9, Heft 23, S. 141-146
ISSN: 1469-9400
In: Journal of contemporary China, Band 9, Heft 23, S. 141-146
ISSN: 1067-0564
In: Pacific affairs, Band 73, Heft 2, S. 290-291
ISSN: 0030-851X
'Wealth And Freedom: Taiwan's New Political Economy' by Gerald A. McBeath is reviewed.
In: Habitat international: a journal for the study of human settlements, Band 34, Heft 2, S. 174-182
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In: Politics in Asia series
In: Politics in Asia series
Using country-specific case studies, top-rank analysts in the field focus on the lessons that dominant parties might learn from losing and the adaptations they consequently make in order to survive, to remain competitive or to ultimately re-gain power.
In: Asian perspective, Band 48, Heft 3, S. 519-522
ISSN: 2288-2871
In: Bulletin of the World Health Organization: the international journal of public health = Bulletin de l'Organisation Mondiale de la Santé, Band 97, Heft 12, S. 849-850
ISSN: 1564-0604
In: Perspectives on politics: a political science public sphere, Band 11, Heft 3, S. 717-733
ISSN: 1537-5927
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In: Perspectives on politics, Band 11, Heft 3, S. 717-733
ISSN: 1541-0986
Authoritarian ruling parties are expected to be exceptionally resistant to democratization. Yet some of the strongest authoritarian parties in the world have not resisted democratization, but have embraced it. This is because their raison d'etre is to continue ruling, not necessarily to remain authoritarian. Democratization requires that ruling parties hold free and fair elections, but not that they lose them. Authoritarian ruling parties can thus be incentivized to concede democratization from a position of exceptional strength as well as extreme weakness. This "conceding-to-thrive" scenario is most likely to unfold when regimes (1) possess substantial antecedent political strengths and resource advantages, (2) suffer ominous setbacks signaling that they have passed their apex of domination, and (3) pursue new legitimation strategies to arrest their incipient decline. We illustrate this heretofore neglected alternative democratization pathway through a comparative-historical analysis of three Asian developmental states where ruling parties have democratized from varying positions of considerable strength: Taiwan, South Korea, and Indonesia. We then consider the implications of our analysis for three "candidate cases" in developmental Asia where ruling parties have not yet conceded democratization despite being well-positioned to thrive were they to do so: Singapore, Malaysia, and the world's most populous dictatorship, China.