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2012.
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| Summary/Abstract |
This article discusses the role of Taiwanese scholars in the country's democratization process. The author contends that liberal scholars have discursively and operationally shaped the process by using a mix of liberalist values and nationalist concerns to analyze their country's democratization process. The author differentiates between four types of liberalist orientations to Taiwanese democratization - universal, moderate, pragmatic and nationalist - and argues that a valid understanding of democratization in Taiwan has never emerged in a way that adequately responds to a liberalist perspective of the country's ongoing political development. Instead, such an understanding has been subjectively influenced by liberal intellectuals writing on the subject.
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