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The Asian Values Debate: Implications for the Spread of Liberal Democracy.
Asian Affairs: An American Review, March, 2000 by SUBRAMANIAM, SURAIN
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The debate over the compatibility of liberal democracy with "Asian values" has attracted a broad array of scholars, as evidenced by the scope of the scholarly literature that addresses the, issue.(1) In this article I seek to trace the genesis of the debate, place it in a scholarly framework, and delineate the main schools of thought within it.
The Genesis of the Asian Values Debate
Most scholars trace the genesis of the debate on Asian values to Singapore,(2) but few have delved deeply into its background. Even prominent scholars of East Asia have written on the ...
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