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  Politicized Society: The Long Shadow of Taiwan's One-party Legacy (Nias Governance in Asia) (Paperback) By (author) Mikael Mattlin

  

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  Short Description for Politicized SocietyTaiwan's initially smooth political transition from one-party authoritarianism to multi-party politics is now threatened by extreme politicization in Taiwanese society. The study thus questions the sustainability of Taiwan's democratic politics and offers an analysis applicable to other transitional democracies around the world.
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  • Publisher: NIAS Press
  • Published: 01 June 2011
  • Format: Paperback 324 pages
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  • Categories: Political Structure & Processes | Political Structures: Democracy | Demonstrations & Protest Movements | Asian History
  • ISBN 13: 9788776940621 ISBN 10: 8776940624
  • Sales rank: 901,928

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• Taiwan's gradual democratization has been celebrated as one of the most successful cases of political transformation, due to an initially smooth political transition from one-party authoritarianism to multi-party politics. Yet, this transition is incomplete and, especially since 2000 when the first non-Kuomintang president was elected, Taiwan has seen an intense and persistent politicization of its society. Institutional flaws are not enough to explain the shortcomings of Taiwan's democratic politics or those in other transitional democracies, the author argues. Rather, when an old dominant party like the Kuomintang continues to thrive even after the end of one-party rule, the process of political liberalization and transition contains within itself the seeds of structural politicization. This is, then, a study with empirical value - warning that extreme politicization is the main internal threat to the sustainability of Taiwan's democratic politics - but its analysis also applies to other transitional democracies around the world.