Pacific Asia after ‘Asian values’: authoritarianism, democracy, and ‘good governance’

Thompson, Mark R.

doi:10.1080/0143659042000256904

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“…Some studies note that it is the government who pursues government accountability or democratization, to improve or enhance citizens' support for the government (Haggard and Kaufman 1997;Feng 1997;Yap 2005). Others point out that accountability and democratization are in response to mobilization by non-government actors, such as labor or the middle-class, for greater responsiveness and representation (Thompson 2004;Huber et al 1993). Our theoretical model builds on these arguments to consider government accountability or democratization as the Informal accountability,credible actions,and democratization in Taiwan 105 result of the interaction of both sets of actors against a backdrop of economic performance.…”

Section: Modeling Strategic Exchange Between Government and Citizensmentioning

confidence: 94%

Informal accountability, credible actions, and democratization in Taiwan

Yap

2010

Const Polit Econ

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How does informal government accountability relate to democratization? In this paper, we use multiple methodologies to show the relation between informal government accountability and democratization in Taiwan. Three results are relevant: First, a game-theoretic model reveals that both informal government accountability and formal democratization are pursued when economic conditions are weak to improve support for the government and extract political concessions for citizens. In particular, the game-theoretic model depicts informal accountability and democratization as outcomes from strategic interaction between the government and citizens where the timing of their preferences and credibility motivate the outcomes. Second, the descriptive studies and statistical analyses corroborate that informal government accountability and democratization occur when economic performance is weak; they also show that informal government accountability is precursory to the democratization process in Taiwan. Third, the evidence supports that informal government accountability leads to formal democratization when political tenure is jeopardized if the constituency-base is not expanded. The findings provide for a predictive model of political development that specifies how informal government accountability feasibly leads to democratization in Taiwan.

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Section: Modeling Strategic Exchange Between Government and Citizensmentioning

confidence: 94%

Informal accountability, credible actions, and democratization in Taiwan

Yap

2010

Const Polit Econ

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“…With respect to the growth-governance paradox, they reiterate the argument of Quibria (2014) that different governance indicators have different importance at different stages of a country's development. Glaeser et al (2004), Thompson (2004), Kurtz and Schrank (2006), and Rodrik (2008) also allude to the negative relationship between growth and governance in developing Asia. While the current literature largely supports the existence of growth-governance paradox, we find a positive relationship between economic growth and governance.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Revisiting the growth-governance relationship in developing Asian and Oceanic economies

Fayissa

Gill

2015

J Econ Finan

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In recent decades, aid agencies, international financial institutions, and developed countries have placed an increased focus on institutional quality (governance) as a criterion for the allocation of financial assistance to the developing countries. Such foreign aid conditionality is based on the general consensus that better governance leads to better economic outcomes. For Asian and Oceanic economies, however, previous studies have reported a negative relationship between economic growth and governance terming it the 'growth-governance paradox'. We revisit the role of governance and economic growth using panel data for 37 Asian and Oceanic countries over the period of 1996-2013. Unlike previous studies, we employ panel analytic methodologies that account for different sources of biases and find that governance has, in fact, a positive relationship with growth in developing Asian and Oceanic economies.

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“…A study conducted in a different context revealed that Abeyrathne et al 9 puritanical rigidity, narrowing of emotional life, massive use of defense projection, denial and fear of his own passions combined with fantasies of violence all set within the matrix of clear paranoid and obsessive personality traits which ultimately results in denial of rights to the citizens as individual and groups (Thompson, 2004). The 19th amendment introduce after the defeat of Mahinda Rajapksa, has curbed the power of president to a certain extent 2 .…”

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confidence: 99%