教學大綱 Syllabus

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：926841001 Course No.926841001

修別：選

Type of Credit: Elective

3.0

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Credit(s)

預收人數

Number of Students

課程資料Course Details

開課單位：亞太碩一、亞太碩二、亞太碩三 Course Department:International Master's Program in Asia-Pacific Studies/M/1&2&3
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.

核心能力分析圖 Core Competence Analysis Chart

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
16+2週16+2 weeks	第 9 週 Week 9	其他（請參閱每週課程進度與作業要求）Other (Please refer to the weekly course schedule and learning requirements)
16+2週16+2 weeks	第 18 週 Week 18	完成指定課後作業或作品Completion of designated after-course assignment or work

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

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.***

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