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Democratization scholars believe that the next regional wave of transitions to democracy may unfold in East and Southeast Asia.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I: Comparative and Institutional
Chapter 1. The Patterns of History
Chapter 2. Parties, Electoral Systems, and Governance
Chapter 3. From Developmental States to Welfare States
Chapter 4. Regime Performance and Democratic Legitimacy
Part II: Northeast Asia
Chapter 5. Is CCP Rule Fragile or Resilient?
Chapter 6. China and the Taiwan Factor
Chapter 7. The Two Turnovers in South Korea and Taiwan
Part III: Southeast Asia
Chapter 8. The Irony of Success in Indonesia
Chapter 9. Reviving Reformism in the Philippines
Chapter 10. Thailand's Uneasy Passage
Chapter 11. Strong-State Democratization in Malaysia and Singapore
Chapter 12. Elites vs. Reform in Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam
Chapter 13. Burma: The Democrats' Opportunity
Chapter 14. Minding the Gap Between Democracy and Governance
Chapter 15. The Shadow of China
Index

About the Author

Larry Diamond is senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University, where he directs the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law. Marc F. Plattner is vice president for research and studies at the National Endowment for Democracy. Plattner and Diamond are coeditors of the Journal of Democracy. Yun-han Chu is Distinguished Research Fellow at the Institute of Political Science at Academia Sinica in Taipei and professor of political science at National Taiwan University.

Reviews

Asian and non-Asian authors debate the desirability of democracy in East Asia . . . The two editors . . . do an excellent job introducing the issues, ideas, and approaches of the fifteen authors.
--Foreign Affairs