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Comparing Asian Politics: India, China, and Japan

ISSN: 0362-3319.
Journal from gdlhub / 2012-06-19 11:40:52
Oleh : ROBERT P. WATSON, STIKOM Dinamika Bangsa Jambi
Dibuat : 2012-06-19, dengan 1 file

Keyword : Comparing Asian Politics: India, China, and Japan
Subjek : Comparing Asian Politics: India, China, and Japan
Sumber pengambilan dokumen : KOPERTIS

By focusing on India, China, and Japan, the three Asian countries most familiar to North

American readers, this study captures some of the diversity of political and social systems

of South and East Asia. However it also goes beyond highlighting the politics of each of

these nations and of the Asian region to draw lessons from these nations’ experiences with

political, social, and cultural transformation. These lessons illuminate the political and

social challenges being faced by other nations experiencing internal changes and the

questions of multicultural and multinational pluralism. Although it is commonly assumed

that the unique cultures and histories of individual nations prevent valid comparisons of

their political systems, in this work Professor Charlton demonstrates, by comparing

several related themes of historical, social, and political developments across these three

nations, that in fact extensive cross-fertilization of political institutions and ideals has

occurred among these Asian countries and between Asia, Europe, and the rest of the

world. Although comparative studies easily fall prey to the distorting lenses of ethnocentric

interpretations or of extreme exceptionalism that stymies comparison between nations,

the author identifies common themes in these three major Asian nations that provide a

common context for studying and contrasting their politics.

Apart from the familiarity of these three nations for North American readers, there is

another argument for examining these three cases. Following the end of the Cold War the

three categories of “liberal democracy,” “Communist or post-Communist,” and “developing

nation” have largely replaced the First World to Third World categories as an

exhaustive typology for classifying nations. Japan, in effect, represents the one Asian

nation that has indisputably achieved the status of a liberal democracy. The People’s

Republic of China remains under the control of a Communist Party that is committed to

a post-Communist mode of development, whereas India, the world’s most populous democracy, has the status of a Newly Industrializing Nation among the developing

nations. Therefore, these three countries cover every possible form of political development

open to the other nations of Asia.

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