Middle Class, Civil Society and Democracy in Asia

Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao is Distinguished Research Fellow in the Institute of Sociology at Academia Sinica and Chair Professor at the National Central University, Taiwan. His recent publications include Citizens, Civil Society and Heritage-making in Asia (2017) and Coping with China Risk: The Challenge to Japanese, Korean and Taiwanese Firms (2016).

• PART I: Overview 1. Comparing the tripartite links of middle class, civil society and democratization in Asia: Positive, Dubious and Negative, Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao PART II: The Positive Links in Taiwan and South Korea 2. The tripartite links of middle class, civil society and democracy in Taiwan: 1980-2016, Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao 3. Democracy and institutional building through civil society activism in Taiwan: the case of Judicial Reform Foundation, Mau-Kuei Chang 4. The tripartite links of middle class, civil society and democratization in South Korea, Yoon-Chul Park PART III: The Dubious Links in the Philippines and Indonesia 5. The middle class-led left movement in civil society’s role in the Philippines’ democratization process, Teresa S. Encarnacion Tadem 6. Coaltion politics and the contested democracy in the Philippines, Yusuke Takagi 7. Democratization and religious NGOs in Indonesia, Jafar Suryomenggolo PART IV: The Negative Links in Thailand 8. Contingent authoritarians: why Thai civil society and the middle class oppose democracy, Veerayooth Kanchoochat 9. Thailand at the critical royal transition period: The middle class, civil society and democratisation, Pavin Chachavalpongpun 10. From paragons to opponents of democracy: middle class in civil society’s role in Thailand's democratization, Hugh Pei-Hsiu Chen