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Author_Alan T. Wood
authoritarian regimes
Awami League
Bangladesh National Party
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CCP.
Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga
Chinese Communist Party
civilian
comparative political systems
Confucian Heritage
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democratic transitions
Direct Democracy
electoral reform studies
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Ethnic Chinese
evolution of Asian democracies
governance in Asia
Grand Inquisitor
Greatest Famine
greek
Homo Habilis
Japanese Democracy
Kim's Administration
Kim’s Administration
leader
military
Min Dialect
Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan
National People's Congress
National People’s Congress
Nelson Mandela
pakistan
paramount
political institutions analysis
Sinhalese Nationalists
Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles
SLFP.
Sri Lankan
Sri Lankan Democracy
successful
Thai Society
tiananmen
west
West Germany
Young Man
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- ISBN 9780415229425
- Weight: 340g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 20 Nov 2003
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Taking a comparative approach, Alan T. Wood traces the evolution of democracy from its origins in prehistoric times and describes democratic growth in thirteen Asian countries from Japan in East Asia to Pakistan in South Asia and examines key issues such as:
* How does the democratic experience in Asia, in countries with unique and totalitarian political traditions, compare with democracies worldwide?
* Is the aspiration to freedom universal or is it a product of western ideas and institutions?
Alan T. Wood is Professor of History at the University of Washington, Bothell. He has lived and studied in Asia for many years, and is the author of Limits to Autocracy: From Sung Neo-Confucianism to a Doctrine of Political Rights (1995) and What Does It Mean to be Human? A New Interpretation of Freedom in World History (2001).
