Taiwan and Northeast Asia: political systems 2100-ERASMUS-TNAP
This course provides an analytical overview of the contemporary political systems of four East Asia regimes: People’s Republic of China, Taiwan, Korea, and Japan. All of them play an important role in global politics and their position is still increasing. Goal of the course is to equip students with understanding of important political institutions, political issues, contentious politics, and aspects of political economies of four East Asia systems. Course provides inter alia a theoretical framework of analyzing political systems. Students also learn about important facts from the contemporary history of China, Taiwan, Korea and Japan and cultural issues that frames their political systems.
First part of the classes develops students’ competences in comparative politics. We deal with basic methods of comparative politics. Then theoretical issues of state structures, political systems, political transformations and party systems are studied.
Second part focuses on analysis of four political systems: People’s Republic of China, Taiwan, Korea, and Japan.
Course Content:
1. Introduction and overview of the course – discussion of class expectations, assignment, exam, and readings
2. What is Politics and Comparative Politics?
3. Political systems and Party systems
4. Forms of the states
5. Democracy and Hybrid Regimes
6. Political Transitions
7. What is East Asia and why should we study it? Main features of East Asia countries
8. People’s Republic of China – contemporary political and social transformations
9. People’s Republic of China – main political institutions
10. Taiwan – democratization process
11. Taiwan – contentious politics and party system
12. South Korea – democratization process
13. South Korea – government & politics
14. Japan – political institutions
15. Japan – political parties & FINAL TEST
Założenia (opisowo)
Efekty kształcenia
On completion of this course, student should:
- understand main concepts of comparative politics and explain major analytical approaches to the study political systems;
- be able to apply main theories and methods to study democratization process and recognize social, cultural, economic, political and international background of democratization processes;
- evaluate and explain the political development of East Asia countries;
- compare political systems of East Asian countries;
- identify main issues in contemporary politics of China, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan;
- show role of culture in formation of political systems;
- give examples of influence of social movements on East Asian politics;
- be ready to develop knowledge on the East Asia region;
- have improved ability to work in multinational student groups;
- engage in expressing thoughts clearly, orally and through written work;
- recognize works by the principal protagonists of the field of transitology.
Kryteria oceniania
Class participation: class attendance is mandatory, but maximum two absences during semester are allowed. Students are responsible for making up any work missed due to absence.
Assessment criteria: Students are asked to actively participate in the classes. Test, paper and class activity is taken into consideration to pass the course.
Class activity:
Students are expected to read before class the required readings.
For substantive participation in class discussions the student receives 1 point for each week.
Paper:
Every student is asked to write a paper on the topic related to course’ subject. A student can receive a maximum of 16 points for writing a minimum 6-page (6 pages without cover page; Times New Roman 12; 1,5 spaces) scientific paper in accordance with the guidelines. The paper should be as analytical as possible. Please avoid merely describing the issue. Base your arguments on works by other authors but try to test your own hypothesis. The student obtains points according the criteria:
1. originality of the work and presentation of the issue (0-4 pts),
2. methodological aspects and data used/relevance of sources (0-5 pts),
3. clarity and quality of paper’s language (0-4 pts),
4. paper’s structure and argumentation (0-5 pkt).
Topics can be discussed with the instructor, but they will ultimately be independent endeavors of the student and originality of the topic is one of the assessment points. The paper needs to be handed in till 18 of May 2021. Paper must be submitted on time. Plagiarism will not be tolerated. Failure to cite the Internet and other non-traditional media sources in your written work constitutes plagiarism.
Final test:
Test is graded from 0-20 points (ca. 20 questions). Most of the questions will have a form of multiple-choice questions. But “true-false”, “matching” and “short-answer” questions may also appear.
Grading policy:
34≤ points – 5
25-33 points – 4
16-24 points – 3
0-15 points – course not passed
Classes Etiquette:
- Get to class on time
- Come to class prepared
- Turn mobile phones off
- Do not distract others with your private conversations
- Raise your hand when want to take part in the discussion
- Everyone who want to discuss the topic is well seen but allow also others to take part in the class discussions
- Respect others when commenting
- Do not interrupt someone’s speech
- Remember about deadlines to handed out the essay
- Do not leave class before its ends
- Support classmates
On-line classes Etiquette (if apply):
- Cameras should be on, through whole meeting
- Mics should be unmuted only when the lecturer asks you to do so. Use the icon “Raise the hand” when want to speak and wait for lecturer response
- You are encourage to use chat to discuss presented issues but use chat only to course aims
- Computers may only be used for class-related work.
Praktyki zawodowe
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Literatura
Readings:
Classes 2:
Lim, Timothy. 2010. Introduction: What is Comparative Politics?. In: Doing Comparative Politics: An Introduction to Approaches and Issues, Edition: 2nd, Publisher: Lynne Reinner
Heywood, Andrew. 2013. Politics. Palgrave Macmillan, chapters: What is Politics?
Garner, Robert; Peter Ferdinand, Stephanie Lawson, and David B. MacDonald. 2016. Introduction to Politics [Second Canadian Edition]. Oxford University Press, chapters: Introduction.
Classes 3:
Heywood, Andrew. 2013. Politics. Palgrave Macmillan, chapters: Parties and Party Systems.
Garner, Robert; Peter Ferdinand, Stephanie Lawson, and David B. MacDonald. 2016. Introduction to Politics [Second Canadian Edition]. Oxford University Press, chapters: 11.
Classes 4:
Heywood, Andrew. 2013. Politics. Palgrave Macmillan, chapter: Governments, Systems and Regimes.
Classes 5:
What is Democracy?, http://library.fes.de/pdf-files/bueros/madagaskar/05860.pdf
L. Gilbert, P. Mohseni, Beyond Authoritarianism: The Conceptualization of Hybrid Regimes, „Studies in Comparative International Development” 2011, no 46, p. 293.
Non-obligatory readings:
Tilly, Charles, “What is Democracy?” pp. 1-24 of Democracy (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007).
Schmitter, Philippe C., and Terry Lynn Karl, “What Democracy Is… and Is Not,” Journal of Democracy 2, no. 3 (summer 1991): 75-88.
Sen, Amartya, “Democracy as a Universal Value,” Journal of Democracy 10, no. 3 (July 1999): 3-17.
Munck, Gerardo L. and Jay Verkuilen. 2002. “Conceptualizing and Measuring Democracy. Evaluating Alternative Indices.” Comparative Political Studies, vol. 35(1):5-34.
Carbone, Giovanni, “The Consequences of Democratization,” Journal of Democracy 20, no. 2 (April 2009): 123-37.
Heywood, Andrew. 2013. Politics. Palgrave Macmillan, chapter: Democracy and Legitimacy.
Garner, Robert; Peter Ferdinand, Stephanie Lawson, and David B. MacDonald. 2016. Introduction to Politics [Second Canadian Edition]. Oxford University Press, chapter: Democracy and Our Relationship to the State.
Classes 6:
Teorell, Jan. 2010. Determinants of Democratization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Chapter 1.
Huntington, Samuel, The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1991), Chapter 1-3
Non-obligatory readings:
Chapters 1 and 2 in Acemoglu, Daron and Robinson, James A. 2005. Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy. New York: Cambridge University Press
Huber, Evelyne, Dietrich Rueschemeyer and John D. Stephens, “The Impact of Economic Development on Democracy,” Journal of Economic Perspectives 7, no. 3 (1993): 71-85.
Przeworski, Adam and Limongi, Fernando. 1997. Modernization: Theories and facts. World Politics, 49(3):155–83.
Boix, Carles. 2011. Democracy, development, and the international system. American Political Science Review, 105(4):809–828.
Classes 7:
Tianjian Shi and Jie Lu, “The Shadow of Confucianism,” Journal of Democracy Vol. 21, No. 4 (2010), pp. 123-130
What is "East Asia"?, http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/geography/geo_eastasia.html
This is the Asian Century: Seven reasons to be optimistic about it, https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/The-Big-Story/This-is-the-Asian-Century-Seven-reasons-to-be-optimistic-about-it
The Asian Century just arrived. Now get ready, https://business.cornell.edu/hub/2020/09/04/asian-century-just-arrived/
Classes 8:
Tony Saich, Governance and Politics of China: Third Edition (Comparative Government and Politics), Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, Chapters 2-3.
Kenneth Lieberthal, Governing China: From Revolution to Reform, 2nd edition. New York; London: W. W. Norton, 2004, Chapters 3-5.
Classes 9:
China’s Political System in Charts: A Snapshot Before the 20th Party Congress, https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R46977
Michał Bogusz, Jakub Jakóbowski, The Chinese Communist Party And Its State Xi Jinping’s Conservative Turn, https://www.osw.waw.pl/en/publikacje/osw-report/2019-09-18/chinese-communist-party-and-its-state
Classes 10:
Chien-Kai Chen, The State-Society Interaction in the Process of Taiwan’s Democratization from 1990 to 1992, East Asia (2011) 28:115–134
J. Bruce Jacobs: Democratizing Taiwan, Brill 2012. p. 5-18.
Ian McAllister, “Democratic Consolidation in Taiwan in Comparative Perspective,” Asian Journal of Comparative Politics 1, no. 1 (2016): 44–61
Christian Schafferer (2020) Taiwan’s defensive democratization, Asian Affairs: An American Review, 47:1, 41-69
Hung-Mao Tien, Chyuan-Jeng Shiau. (1992) Taiwan’s Democratization: A summary, World Affairs, vol. 155, no. 2.
Su-Mei Ooi. (2009). The Transnational Protection Regime and Taiwan’s Democratization. Journal of East Asian Studies, 9(1), 57-85
Joseph Wong (2001) Dynamic Democratization in Taiwan, Journal of Contemporary China, 10:27, 339-362
Classes 11:
Cooper, John F., Taiwan – Nation State or Province? (Fifth Edition: Westview Press, 2020), Chapter 4 (Political system)
Classes 12:
Ku, Yangmo, Inyeop Lee, Jongseok Woo. 2017. Politics in North and South Korea: Political Development, Economy and Foreign Relations. New York: Routledge, chapter 2 (South Korean Democratization)
Classes 13:
Ku, Yangmo, Inyeop Lee, Jongseok Woo. 2017. Politics in North and South Korea: Political Development, Economy and Foreign Relations. New York: Routledge, chapter 3 (Political Conflicts and Democracy after Democratization)
Classes 14:
Hayes, Louis D. 2018. Introduction to Japanese Politics. 6th ed. New York: Routledge, chapter 3 (The Structure of Government)
Classes 15:
Hayes, Louis D. 2018. Introduction to Japanese Politics. 6th ed. New York: Routledge, chapters 4-5 (Political Parties)
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