Japan Studies Program, Program for East Asian Studies, GRADUATE INSTITUTE OF POLITICAL SCIENCE, DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE The course is conducted in English。 No Target Students The course is conducted in English。。A5*:Civil Awareness and Social Analysis area . This course is also categorized as Liberal Education Course .

This course will introduce the democratization process of East and Southeast Asian Countries. The countries are categorized by regime types into 4 groups: liberal democracy, electoral democracy, electoral autocracy, and closed autocracy. Systematic comparison will be focused on the application of the modernization theory and authoritarian resilience theory.

The course aims to make students familiarize the democratization process and political development of East and Southeast Asian countries, where Asian Barometer conducted national probabilistic surveys. Students are expected to understand the trajectory of East and Southeast Asian political development and the theories that could explain the divergent trends and results. In each week, the instructor will ask students to prepare using the different theories to look at the democratization process in each country and provide their own insights and explanations.

There are different requirements for graduate and undergraduate students. For graduate students, there are two assignments (50%) due at the week 7 (Oct 15) and week 13 (Nov 26). Each written assignment is a two-page short essay covering a topic or country analytically. The final paper (50%) should be a research paper format between 10-15 pages due at the week 16 (Dec 17). For undergraduate students, there is only one written assignment (30%) due at week 11 (Nov 12), which is also a two-page short essay as well. The content can be descriptive or analytical, but has to identify a country to address. The final paper (70%) is a 5-page format due at the week 16 (Dec 17). There is no restriction on the topic, but it has to be related to this course.

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