Communitarian Politics in Asia

by Chua Beng Huat

Book Overview

With the collapse of European socialism in the late 1980s, ascendancy of the liberal capitalist democracy and individual self-interest became prevalent in the West. In contrast, many polities in Asia, both by tradition and choice, have explicitly adopted communitarianism as a national ideology, for example Confucianism in Korea, Hong Kong and Japan, Islam in Malaysia and the Panca Sila in Indonesia. Here, communitarianism arguably informs public policies...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415480302
• ISBN13: 9780415480307
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"