Towards Illiberal Democracy

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vii

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2. Understanding Illiberal Democracy: A Framework

   • Daniel A. Bell, Kanishka Jayasuriya

   Pages 1-16

3. Democracy in Confucian Societies: The Challenge of Justification

   • Daniel A. Bell

   Pages 17-40

4. Democracy and Identity: The Paradoxical Character of Political Development

   • David Martin Jones

   Pages 41-77

5. Democratization and the Myth of the Liberalizing Middle Classes

   • David Brown, David Martin Jones

   Pages 78-106

6. The Political Economy of Democratization

   • Kanishka Jayasuriya

   Pages 107-133

7. Democratization and the Renegotiation of Ethnicity

   • David Brown

   Pages 134-162

8. Towards a Model of Illiberal Democracy

   • Jones, Jayasuriya, Bell, Jones

   Pages 163-167

9. Back Matter

   Pages 168-197

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This book challenges the view that liberal democracy is the inevitable outcome of economic modernization. Focusing on the stable and prosperous societies of Pacific Asia, it argues that contemporary political arrangements are legitimised by the values of hierarchy, familism and harmony. An arrangement that clearly contrasts with a western understanding of political liberalism and the communicatory democracy it facilitates. Instead of political change resulting from a demand for autonomy by interest groups in civil society, the adoption of democratic practice in Asia ought to be viewed primarily as a state strategy to manage socio-economic change.

• democracy
• democratization
• development
• economy

• Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs, USA

  Daniel A. Bell

• Murdoch University, Australia

  David Brown

• University of Sydney, Australia

  Kanishka Jayasuriya

• National University of Singapore, Singapore

  David Martin Jones

DANIEL A. BELL
DAVID BROWN
KANISHKA JAYASURIYA
DAVID MARTIN JONES

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