Civil Society and Political Change in Asia: Expanding and Contracting Democratic Space

Civil Society and Political Change in Asia: Expanding and Contracting Democratic Space

Language: English

Pages: 552

ISBN: 0804750971

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


This book is the first comprehensive, systematic investigation of the connection between civil society and political change in Asia—change toward open, participatory, and accountable politics. Its findings suggest that the link between a vibrant civil society and democracy is indeterminate: certain types of civil society organizations support democracy, but others have the potential to undermine it.

Further, the study argues that while civil society is a key factor in political change, democratic transition and consolidation hinge on the development of effective political parties, legislatures, and state institutions. Rooted in a common definition of civil society, a strong analytical framework, and rich empirical material, the analyses and conclusions of the book will have a lasting impact on the understanding of civil society and its relation to democracy in Asia and around the world.

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Strategic relations and interaction of civil society organizations with other domestic and international actors. The study also considers the general trend in the development of Asian civil societies and the factors underlying it. The development of a nonstate public sphere. Here investigation focuses on the institution of a set of rules and rights to facilitate the development of autonomous nonstate organizations that can affect state power, engage in self-governance, and make demands on the.

Weakness of the incipient civil society. To break away from autocratic rule, they argue, a reconfiguration of state-society relations must occur in China—a process that would feature the development of a strong civil society. Viewing the economic reform that began in 1978 as a resumption of the unfinished modernization of the republican era, several Western historians of China deploy the civil society concept to understand “the growth and transformation of Chinese cities, as they accelerated.

Did not completely agree with” (221). Constantino-David’s resignation had a wide but varied political impact. Indeed, it offered contending lessons to different civil society groups then in the process of negotiating the roiling political waters from their respective corners. For those focused on Estrada, it offered the first clear proof of the antireform and corrupt tendencies of his administration (Karaos 1999b).38 Constantino-David’s account of her experience at HUDCC left no doubt as to the.

Civil society groups were not entirely under the influence and control of communists. Such groups during this period were characterized by their high degree of functionality and autonomy. What might be called an “associational explosion” was already under way, and the communists simply took advantage of the popular demand for organization and representation. Largely in reaction to 142 sunhyuk kim these “procommunist” organizations, rightist elements in civil society (which in many cases had.

Reform. The first is a campaign to monitor the National Assembly’s inspection of government offices (kukchong kamsa). The second is the Nakch’on/Nakson movement to prevent the election of unfit or disqualified candidates in the 2000 National Assembly elections. Monitoring the National Assembly’s Inspection Process On September 8, 1999, forty civil society groups, including CCEJ, PSPD, and KFEM, created Citizens’ Solidarity for Monitoring the National Assembly Inspection of Government Offices.

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