Non-western encounters with democratization : imagining democracy after the Arab Spring / edited by Christopher K. Lamont, Jan van der Harst and Frank Gaenssmantel, University of Groningen, the Netherlands.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A universal understanding of democracy? / Cecile Vandewoude -- Confucianism's role-based political ethic : free speech, remonstrative speech, and political change in East Asia / James Garrison -- Returning to the Tunisian revolution : some reflections on political change during the Arab Spring / Sami Zemni -- A gendered perspective on the Arab Spring : Arab women caught between internal and external conflicts / Jasmine Yawad -- The Arab uprising : state of emergency and constitutional reform / Andrej Zwitter -- Western democratic leverage and the Arab Spring / Mieczyslaw Boduszynski -- Looking east : China's Jasmine Revolutions in comparative perspective / Patricia Thornton -- Enough to get by? : a discussion of China's minimum livelihood guarantee as a social stability mechanism / Daniel Hammond -- Cultural resource for democracy : the case of Korean democratisation and the nineteenth century Tonghak movement / Pieter Boele van Hensbroek -- Trade unions, civil society, democracy and authority in Japan / Herman Voogsgeerd -- Non-western visions of development? : Japan's official development assistance and global governmentality / Alexandria J Innes and Christopher K. Lamont.