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Contested Citizenship in East Asia: Developmental Politics, National Unity, and Globalization

Contested Citizenship in East Asia: Developmental Politics, National Unity, and Globalization

Chang, Kyung-Sup
Turner, Bryan

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

General Political ScienceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0415594464
ISBN13: 9780415594462
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 13 2011
Pages: 266
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

Theories of citizenship from the West - pre-eminently those by T.H. Marshall - provide only a limited insight into East Asian political history.

The Marshallian trajectory - juridical, political and social rights - was not repeated in Asia and the late nineteenth-century debate about liberalism and citizenship among intellectuals in Japan and China was eventually stifled by war, colonialism and authoritarian governments (both nationalist and communist). Subsequent attempts to import western-style democratic values and citizenship were to a large extent failures. Social rights have rarely been systematically incorporated into the political ideology and administrative framework of ruling governments. In reality, the predominant concern of both the state elite and the ordinary citizens was economic development and a modicum of material well-being rather than civil liberties. The developmental state and its politics take precedence in the everyday political process of most East Asian societies.

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