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科目名稱：公民社會與憲政民主：來自全球南方的教訓

Course Name: Civil Society and Constitutional Democracy: Lessons from the Global South
  • 學年學期：112-2 Spring Semester, 2024
  • 科目代碼：862889001 Course No.862889001

修別：選

Type of Credit: Elective

3.0

學分數

Credit(s)

5

預收人數

Number of Students

課程資料Course Details
  • 開課單位：國研碩一、國研碩二 Course Department:International Master's Program in International Studies/M/1&2
  • 授課老師：DeasyRumondang Prisc Instructor: Deasy Rumondang Priscilla
  • 先修科目：無Prerequisite(N/A)
  • 上課時間：五D56 Session: fri13-16

課程簡介Course Description

Notes:

  • Essays: Students only write 6 essays in the 18 weeks. Students choose for themselves 6 topics for their short essays (500 words each). Each essay is submitted on the week when the topic is discussed. Thus, this course does not have weekly homework.
  • Final paper: Students choose for themselves one topic for their individual final papers (5,000 words).
  • Presentations: Students present twice: 1 on the weekly topic of their choice, 1 on the framework of their final papers.
    Many political thinkers have used the concept of “civil society”, among them were Hobbes, Locke, Montesquieu, De Tocqueville, Hegel, Marx, and Gramsci. Yet only since Cohen's and Arato's “Civil Society and Political Theory” (1992) has the academic debate focused on the civil society's role in the promotion of democratic regimes (Dryzek 2016). As a working concept here, we define civil society as a political space where voluntary associations deliberately seek to shape the rules that govern one or the other aspect of social life. “Rules” refer to specific policies, more general norms and deeper social structures. Therefore, civil society actions may target formal directives (such as legislation), informal constructs (such as gender roles) and/or social order. Civil society serves as buffer and intermediary between citizen and the state and accepts the latter as the pertinent domain for political contestation.
    This course discusses the role of civil society in influencing the dynamics and substance of democracy and democratization, especially emphasizing the politics of democratic transitions, deepening and decline, particularly in the Global South. While many observers have celebrated the rise of global civic activism as a boon for democracy, others, pointing at the fact that not every civic associations strive towards preserving democratic “freedoms”, have decried it as a bane. The relationship between civil society and democracy has indeed been a subject of major debate, with many scholars contesting the notion that the existence of civil society is a sufficient condition for democracy, especially in the developing world. It has also been criticized for its middle-class bias and blindness to gender inequalities.

On Week 10, on the topic of Democratic Decline, we will have Dr. Choong Pui Yee, Associate Professor at University of Malaya, Malaysia, as guest lecturer on the grassroot democratization movements (she has published extensively on the subject, and her work is among the reading resources for this class). Also, on Week 17, if it is feasible, we plan to visit the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy (TFD) think tank, to learn about their activities in promoting democracy in Taiwan and in the region.

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能力項目說明

    課程目標與學習成效Course Objectives & Learning Outcomes

    The first part of the course, in addition to the elaboration of key concepts, points at the global proliferation of formal and constitutional/electoral democracy, while examining the existence of semi-authoritarian (hybrid) governance and democratic rollbacks. The second part of the course focuses on how civil society activism offers possibilities to reduce the major democratic deficits and support the efforts towards more substantive democratization, examining the role of key actors, agendas and democratic transformation strategies. Based on interdisciplinary literatures, the course is designed to both give an overview and theoretical basis for the topic as well as drawing from cases studies pertaining to the role of civil society in democratization, especially in the developing world. At the end of the course, students will be able to distinguish the analytical and normative references in the concept of civil society, identity and evaluate the relations between civil society and democratization, recognize the role of civil society in various governance styles (i.e. democratic, authoritarian and hybrid forms) in the developing world.

    每周課程進度與作業要求 Course Schedule & Requirements

    教學週次Course Week 彈性補充教學週次Flexible Supplemental Instruction Week 彈性補充教學類別Flexible Supplemental Instruction Type

     

    Course Week

    Flexible Supplemental Instruction Week

    Flexible Supplemental Instruction Type

    ✔ 16 +2 weeks

       Week   18 

    〇Course-related online learning

    〇Capstone self-learning

    ✔ Completion of designated after-course assignment or work

    〇Participation in on-campus or off-campus learning activities or community service related to the course

    〇Other (Please refer to the weekly course schedule and learning requirements)

       Week   9 

    〇Course-related online learning

    〇Capstone self-learning

    〇Completion of designated after-course assignment or work

    〇Participation in on-campus or off-campus learning activities or community service related to the course

    ✔ Other (Please refer to the weekly course schedule and learning requirements)

    〇17 +1 weeks

       Week     

    〇Course-related online learning

    〇Capstone self-learning

    〇Completion of designated after-course assignment or work

    〇Participation in on-campus or off-campus learning activities or community service related to the course

    〇Other (Please refer to the weekly course schedule and learning requirements)

    〇18 weeks

    No flexible supplemental instruction week

     

     

    Week

    Topic

    Content and Reading Assignment

    Teaching Activities and Homework

    1

    Introduction

     

    2/23

    Syllabus

    Evaluation Criteria

    Class Regulations

    Introduction of syllabus and regulations

    Students choose the 6 (six) weeks in which they want to submit their individual essays.

    No Homework

    2

    Democracy and Civil Society

    3/1

     

    Required Readings

    De Tocqueville, Alexis, 2015. Democracy in America-Vol. I. and II. Read Books Ltd. (Vol II, Part 1) – [very short chapters from a classic book]

    Foley, Michael W. and Bob Edwards, 1998. "Beyond Tocqueville: civil society and social capital in comparative perspective: editors' introduction." American Behavioral Scientist, 5-20.
    • Lecture: Introduction of concepts
    • Essay (only for those who chose to submit it)
    • Presentation of the readings (only for one or two students who chose to do it)
    • Other activities: games, simulation, debates.

    3

    Critiques of Tocquevillian Civil Society

    3/8

    Required Readings

    Diamond, Larry, 1994. "Rethinking civil society: Toward democratic consolidation." Journal of democracy 5.3: 4-17.

    Hedman, Eva-Lotta E, 2001, "Contesting state and civil society: Southeast Asian trajectories." Modern Asian Studies 35.4: 921-951.

    Further Readings

    Kim, Sungmoon. "On Korean dual civil society: Thinking through Tocqueville and Confucius." Contemporary Political Theory 9.4 (2010): 434-457.
    • Lecture
    • Essay (only for those who chose to submit it)
    • Presentation of the readings (only for one or two students who chose to do it)
    • Other activities: games, simulation, debates.

    4

    Social Capital and Civil Society

    3/15

    Required Readings

    Fukuyama, Francis, 2001. "Social capital, civil society and development." Third world quarterly 22.1: 7-20.

    Putnam, Robert D, 1992, Making democracy work: Civic traditions in modern Italy. Princeton university press. (Ch.6 – Social capital and institutional success)

    Further Readings

    Edwards, Bob, and Michael W. Foley, 1998 "Civil society and social capital beyond Putnam." American behavioral scientist 42.1: 124-139.

     
    • Lecture
    • Essay (only for those who chose to submit it)
    • Presentation of the readings (only for one or two students who chose to do it)
    • Other activities: games, simulation, debates.

    5

    Social Movement and the State

    3/22

     

    Required Readings

     

    Linz, Juan J., Juan J. Linz, and Alfred Stepan, 1996, Problems of democratic transition and consolidation: Southern Europe, South America, and post-communist Europe. JHU Press (Ch. 1)

     

    Tarrow, Sidney, 2012, Strangers at the gates: movements and states in contentious politics. Cambridge University Press (Ch.1)

     

    Further Readings

     

    Bermeo, Nancy G, 2003, Ordinary people in extraordinary times: The citizenry and the breakdown of democracy. Princeton University Press (Ch.1)
    • Lecture
    • Essay (only for those who chose to submit it)
    • Presentation of the readings (only for one or two students who chose to do it)
    • Other activities: games, simulation, debates

    6

    Civil Society and Democratization in non-Western societies: introduction

    3/29

    Required Readings

    Stokke, Kristian, 2018, "Democratization in the Global South: From democratic transitions to transformative democratic politics." Geography Compass 12.12.

    Lewis, David, 2001, Civil society in non-Western contexts: Reflections on the ‘usefulness’ of a concept. No. 13. Centre for civil society, London school of economics and Political Science, 2001.
    • Lecture
    • Essay (only for those who chose to submit it)
    • Presentation of the readings (only for one or two students who chose to do it)
    • Other activities: games, simulation, debates

    7

    Holiday

    Children’s Day

    4/5

    No Class

    No Class

    8

    Civil Society and transition towards formal democracy

    4/12

    Required Readings

    Schmitter, Philippe C., 2018, "The role of elites in democratization." Journal of Chinese political science 23.1: 33-46.

    Stokke, Kristian, and Soe Myint Aung, 2019, "Transition to democracy or hybrid regime? The dynamics and outcomes of democratization in Myanmar." The European Journal of Development Research: 1-20.

    Further Readings

    Hsiao, Hsin-Huang Michael. "Political liberalization and the farmers’ movement in Taiwan." The Politics of Democratization. Routledge, 2019. 202-218.
    • Lecture
    • Essay (only for those who chose to submit it)
    • Presentation of the readings (only for one or two students who chose to do it)
    • Other activities: games, simulation, debates

    9

    Civil society, political parties and democratic representation

    4/19

    Required Readings

    Candland, Christopher, 2001, "Faith as social capital: Religion and community development in Southern Asia." Social Capital as a Policy Resource. Springer, Boston, MA, 2001. 129-148.

    Chandra, Kanchan, 2005, "Ethnic parties and democratic stability." Perspectives on politics (2005): 235-252.

     

    Further Readings

    Ufen, Andreas, 2012, "Party systems, critical junctures, and cleavages in Southeast Asia." Asian Survey 52.3: 441-464.
    • Lecture
    • Essay (only for those who chose to submit it)
    • Presentation of the readings (only for one or two students who chose to do it)
    • Other activities: games, simulation, debates

    10

    Democratic decline and hybridism

    4/26

     

    (Guest lecture: Dr. Choong Pui Yee, University of Malaya, Malaysia)

    Required Readings

    Choong, Pui Yee, 2016, "Grassroots Democratic Movements' Dependency on New Media in Contemporary Malaysia: Prospects and Limitations." State, Society and Information Technology in Asia. Routledge, 93-108.

    Cohen, Hillel Joseph, 2019, "Unconditional aid and ‘hybrid democracy’: The case of Cambodia." Asian Journal of Public Affairs 11.2.

     

    Further Readings

    Case, William, 2009, "Low-quality democracy and varied authoritarianism: elites and regimes in Southeast Asia today." The Pacific Review 22.3: 255-269.
    • Lecture
    • Essay (only for those who chose to submit it)
    • Presentation of the readings (only for one or two students who chose to do it)
    • Other activities: games, simulation, debates

    11

    The Politics of citizenship

    5/3

    Required Readings

    Berenschot, Ward, Henk Schulte Nordholt, and Laurens Bakker. "Introduction: citizenship and democratization in postcolonial Southeast Asia." Citizenship and democratization in Southeast Asia. Brill, 2017. 1-28

    Ho, Ming-Sho. "Taiwan’s Anti-Nuclear Movement: The Making of a Militant Citizen Movement." Journal of Contemporary Asia 48.3 (2018): 445-464.

    Further Readings

    Vromen, Ariadne, 2017, "Digital citizenship and political engagement." Digital Citizenship and Political Engagement. Palgrave Macmillan, London. 9-49.
    • Lecture
    • Essay (only for those who chose to submit it)
    • Presentation of the readings (only for one or two students who chose to do it)
    • Other activities: games, simulation, debates

    12

    Labor movements and contentious politics

    5/10

    Required Readings

    Caraway, Teri L., and Michele Ford, 2017, "Institutions and collective action in divided labour movements: Evidence from Indonesia." Journal of Industrial Relations 59.4: 444-464.

    Lee, Yoonkyung, 2015, "Sky protest: New forms of labour resistance in neo-liberal Korea." Journal of Contemporary Asia 45.3: 443-464.

     

    Further Readings

    Pangsapa, Piya, 2015, "When battlefields become marketplaces: Migrant workers and the role of civil society and NGO activism in Thailand." International Migration 53.3: 124-149.
    • Lecture
    • Essay (only for those who chose to submit it)
    • Presentation of the readings (only for one or two students who chose to do it)
    • Other activities: games, simulation, debates

    13

    Religious civil society

    5/17

    Required Readings

    Facal, Gabriel, 2020, "Islamic Defenders Front Militia (Front Pembela Islam) and its impact on growing religious intolerance in Indonesia." TRaNS: Trans-Regional and-National Studies of Southeast Asia 8.1: 7-20.

    Van Klinken, Gerry, and Su Mon Thazin Aung, 2017, "The contentious politics of anti-Muslim scapegoating in Myanmar." Journal of Contemporary Asia 47.3 (2017): 353-375

     

    Further Readings

     

    Crippen, Matthew, 2015, "Egypt and the Middle East: democracy, anti-democracy and pragmatic faith."  Louis U. Pub. L. Rev. 35 (2015): 281.
    • Lecture
    • Essay (only for those who chose to submit it)
    • Presentation of the readings (only for one or two students who chose to do it)
    • Other activities: games, simulation, debates

    14

    Urban citizenship and environmental justice

    5/24

    Required Readings

    Lemanski, C., 2017, “Unequal citizenship in unequal cities: participatory urban governance in contemporary South Africa”. International Development Planning Review 39: 15-35.

    Simpson, Adam, and Mattijs Smits, 2018, "Transitions to energy and climate security in Southeast Asia? Civil society encounters with illiberalism in Thailand and Myanmar." Society & Natural Resources 31.5: 580-598.

    Further Readings

    Fuller, Sara, 2020, "Towards a politics of urban climate responsibility: Insights from Hong Kong and Singapore." Urban Studies 57.7: 1469-1484.
    • Lecture
    • Essay (only for those who chose to submit it)
    • Presentation of the readings (only for one or two students who chose to do it)
    • Other activities: games, simulation, debates

    15

    Gender movement and contentious politics

    5/31

    Required Readings

    Coetzee, Azille, 2019, "Revisiting citizenship in the South African postcolony: empire, white romance and the (continued) abjection of the black woman." Postcolonial Studies 22.3: 345-361.

    Moreau, Julie, 2017, "Political Science and the Study of LGBT Social Movements in the Global South." LGBTQ Politics: A Critical Reader 3: 439.

    Further Readings

    Brysk, Alison, 2020, "Constructing rights in Taiwan: the feminist factor, democratization, and the quest for global citizenship." The Pacific Review: 1-33
    • Lecture
    • Essay (only for those who chose to submit it)
    • Presentation of the readings (only for one or two students who chose to do it)
    • Other activities: games, simulation, debates

    16

     

    Presentation Week

    6/7

    Student Presentation

    Student Final Presentations

    17

    Tentative visit to TFD

    6/14

    Tentative Visit

    Tentative Visit

    18

    Final Paper Week

    6/21

    No class

    Submission of Final Papers

    No Homework

     

     

    授課方式Teaching Approach

    30%

    講述 Lecture

    25%

    討論 Discussion

    30%

    小組活動 Group activity

    10%

    數位學習 E-learning

    5%

    其他： Others:

    評量工具與策略、評分標準成效Evaluation Criteria

    Evaluations

    • Attendance and active participation  : 10%
    • 2 Presentations (1 essay, 1 final)        : 30%
    • Weekly short essays (6 essays)   : 30%
    • Final paper                          : 30%
       
      Criterion

    Attendance and active participation: quality and frequency of contribution to class discussions and intervention. Excellence is marked by continuous contributions to class discussions and interventions which show high levels of analysis. Students should complete

    • the assigned readings prior to the meetings and therefore are prepared to discuss the readings.
    • Presentations: Students present twice: the first one is on the essay topic of their choice, the second one is on the outline of their final paper. Evaluation is based on the quality of argument, evidence of research, presentation structure and cohesiveness, speech flow and quality of oral delivery. Excellence is marked by structured delivery, clear and analytical argument, fluent speech and use of power point or other tools.
    • Weekly short essays: students choose 6 weekly topics on which they would like to write essays. Students write a one-page essay (400-500 words) on at least 2 (two) of the readings, based on 2-3 key points that they deem important to discuss, thus not only a summary of the readings. Short essays are submitted at the end of each meeting.

    Final paper: The final paper is 5,000 words, focusing on a case study which is analyzed using the theories and concepts learned in the class. Students should consult the instructor about the topics at least four weeks before the paper is due. Evaluation is based on the quality and structure of the written piece, evidence-based and conceptually grounded argument, adequate literature review. The usage of relevant additional materials not listed in this syllabus is encouraged. Excellence is marked by analytical argument, usage of relevant theories and concepts, understanding of current events and well-argued position.

    ***The use of generative AI is prohibited. The essays and papers for this course will be evaluated based on how we express our understanding of theories based on our discussions in the classroom, and how we can use these theories to analyze contemporary case studies. Written pieces generated by AIs do not reflect such understanding or connection between theories and case studies as they do not capture the classroom discussions.***

    指定/參考書目Textbook & References

    Please see the course weekly schedule

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