Full Description
Poland and Taiwan: two parts of the world distant from each other, differing culturally and socially, and yet facing kind of similar challenges in the late 1980s and early 1990s - characterised by the transition from an authoritarian political system to liberal democracy. This book seeks to present the process of democratisation of Poland and Taiwan from the point of view of shared perspectives. Invoking the classical literature of transitology, it is possible to explore similarities and differences between the democratisation of Poland and Taiwan among socioeconomic factors, fragmentation in society, political culture, meso- structures (e.g. political groups, social movements), political institutions, historical and national- identity aspects, and international influences.
Contents
The process of democratization of Taiwan and Poland
Historical and identity - related perspectives
Social and economic perspectives
Elites of power and opposition
The role of student movements
The geopolitics of democratization
Changes in the political system
Challenges of the political transition
