This collection of essays offers a fresh look into Christian-Jewish cultural interactions during the Renaissance and beyond. Christian scholars, it is shown, were deeply immersed in a variety of ...Hebrew sources, while their Jewish counterparts imbibed the culture of Humanism.
Japan, Russia, and Turkey are major examples of countries with different ethnic, religious, and cultural background that embarked on the path of modernization without having been colonized by a ...Western country. In all three cases, national consciousness has played a significant role in this context. The project of Modernity is obviously of European origin, but is it essentially European? Does modernization imply loss of a country's cultural or national identity? If so, what is the "fate" of the modernization process in these cases? The presence of the idea and reality of civil society can be considered a real marker of Modernity in this respect, because it presupposes the development of liberalism, individualism and human rights. But are these compatible with nationalism and with the idea of a national religion? These questions are the more pressing, as Japan is considered part of the Western world in many respects, and Russia and Turkey are defining their relation to the European Union in different ways. An investigation of these three countries, set off against more general reflections, sheds light on the possibilities or limitations of modernization n a non-European context.
碩士
國立臺灣大學
政治學研究所
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Citizen’s support of checks-and-balances (CB) is one of the most important democratic values in developing and consolidating democracy, a belief that compromise is both necessary ...and desirable. Do Taiwanese voters support the idea of CB? What are the theoretical and practical issues in analyzing attitude toward CB? Are those CB attitudes measured nowadays the same as what they apparently are? What are the origin and explanation of diverse types of CB support among Taiwanese voters?
Taiwan had just experienced the first split-government during 2000-2008. In 2004 congressional election, the incumbent pan-green camp attracted voters by the slogan of “unified and then efficient government”, while the opposite pan-blue camp appealed to voters for the value of constitutional balances. Yet, once the pan-blue camp won back both of the congress and president seats in 2008, the two camps opted for the government structure to which they previously opposed. The dramatic position switch is a rare and
