In your journal entry for this week, make sure that you highlight the following “journal props” as well any other materials you learned or gleaned from the lecture notes and readings. They are provided to you simply as “guidelines” to direct your focus on the subject matter. You should follow the journal “props” as indicated, then add on other materials gleaned from your assigned readings as well as the lecture. Please do not confine yourself, but you need to incorporate as much detail as possible to convince the instructor/reader that you have read and understood the materials for the week. If you have any questions, please let me know:
- What are the fundamentals (baseline) of democratization in Asia/South-East Asia?
- What is the nexus (connection) between democratic liberalism (multi-party system) and economic liberalism (free-market system) in SE/Asia?
- What is the role of culture and belief systems in political preferences and choice of regime types?
- How does tradition and such customs as “filial piety, paternalism, and the Confucian ethic” shape attitudes toward political liberalization (democracy) versus authoritarian rule (centralized authority)? In what ways is this considered to be more efficacious for public policy making?
- As you reflect on the article “Partitions in the Rationalization of Ideas and Beliefs: Past as Prologue,” how much of that can you draw upon to reinforce your understanding of item #4 (above) and the South-East Asian democratization experience?
- Can “illiberal” democracy sometimes work, all of the time, some of the time? Can it be successfully passed off as a ‘desirable’ form of political expediency?
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