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Liberalist variation in Taiwan: four democratization orientations
Liberalistische Variation in Taiwan: vier demokratische Orientierungen
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Abstract "In this paper the author analyzes how Taiwanese liberalist scholars have discursively and operationally shaped the meanings of Taiwanese democratization via a mix of liberal values and nationalist concerns. He will argue that a valid understanding of democratization in Taiwan has never emerged in a... view more
"In this paper the author analyzes how Taiwanese liberalist scholars have discursively and operationally shaped the meanings of Taiwanese democratization via a mix of liberal values and nationalist concerns. He will argue that a valid understanding of democratization in Taiwan has never emerged in a way that adequately responds to a liberalist perspective of the country's ongoing political development. Instead, such an understanding has been subjectively influenced by liberal intellectuals writing on the subject. In other words, current discourses in Taiwan represent efforts on the part of scholars to manage connections between liberalist values and nationalist concerns rather than shared views regarding facts emerging from Taiwanese democratization. In this paper the author discusses four types of liberalist orientations to Taiwanese democratization - universal, moderate, pragmatic and nationalist - in the contexts of national-identity constraints, a balance between liberal values and national identity, and flexibility regarding liberalist and nationalist concerns. He concludes that democratization research in Taiwan reflects an aspect of knowledge production formulated by the relationship between the researcher and the subject under study." (author's abstract)... view less
Keywords
Taiwan; Asia; liberalization; democratization; national identity; orientation; nationalism; political development; discourse; pragmatism; historical development; universalism; multicultural society; national state; identity; comparative research; Chinese; political direction; Far East
Classification
Political System, Constitution, Government
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
Method
descriptive study
Document language
English
Publication Year
2012
Page/Pages
p. 93-116
Journal
Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, 41 (2012) 3
Issue topic
Taiwan under KMT rule: recent trends in domestic politics and cross-strait relations
ISSN
1868-4874
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works