Liberalist variation in Taiwan: four democratization orientations

Journal article | Zeitschriftenartikel

"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)

Object Details

• Alternative title: Liberalistische Variation in Taiwan: vier demokratische Orientierungen
• ISSN: 1868-4874
• Extent: Seite(n): 93-116
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, 41(3)

Classification and Topics

• Subject: Staatsformen und Regierungssysteme ; Politikwissenschaft ; Staat, staatliche Organisationsformen ; politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur ; Taiwan ; Asien ; Liberalisierung ; Demokratisierung ; nationale Identität ; Orientierung ; Nationalismus ; politische Entwicklung ; Diskurs ; Pragmatismus ; historische Entwicklung ; Universalismus ; multikulturelle Gesellschaft ; Staat ; Identität ; vergleichende Forschung ; Chinese ; politische Richtung ; Ostasien ; deskriptive Studie

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Wang, Hung-jen
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Deutschland
• (when): 2012

Further information

• URN: urn:nbn:de:gbv:18-4-5355
• Last update: 21.06.2024, 4:27 PM CEST