Non-western encounters with democratization :  imagining democracy after the Arab Spring / 
edited by Christopher K. Lamont, Jan van der Harst and Frank Gaenssmantel 
 - xii, 241 p.  :  illustrations ;  24 cm 
<br/><br/> <br/>Contents<br/><br/>A universal understanding of democracy? / Cecile Vandewoude -- Confucianism's role-based political ethic : free speech, remonstrative speech, and political change in East Asia / James Garrison -- Returning to the Tunisian revolution : some reflections on political change during the Arab Spring / Sami Zemni -- A gendered perspective on the Arab Spring : Arab women caught between internal and external conflicts / Jasmine Yawad -- The Arab uprising : state of emergency and constitutional reform / Andrej Zwitter -- Western democratic leverage and the Arab Spring / Mieczyslaw Boduszynski -- Looking east : China's Jasmine Revolutions in comparative perspective / Patricia Thornton -- Enough to get by? : a discussion of China's minimum livelihood guarantee as a social stability mechanism / Daniel Hammond -- Cultural resource for democracy : the case of Korean democratisation and the nineteenth century Tonghak movement / Pieter Boele van Hensbroek -- Trade unions, civil society, democracy and authority in Japan / Herman Voogsgeerd -- Non-western visions of development? : Japan's official development assistance and global governmentality / Alexandria J Innes and Christopher K. Lamont. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index p. 237-241 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781472439710 (hardback : alk. paper) 9781472439727 (ebook) 9781472439734 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Democratization<br/>Democracy after the Arab spring
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>320.91767  / NON