Narratives of Civic Duty : : How National Stories Shape Democracy in Asia /

Narratives of Civic Duty : : How National Stories Shape Democracy in Asia / / Aram Hur.

In Narratives of Duty, Aram Hur investigates the impulse behind a sense of civic duty in democracies. Why, she asks, do some citizens feel a responsibility to vote, pay taxes, or take up arms in defense of one's country? Through comparing democratic societies in East Asia and elsewhere, Hur sho...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022
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Hur, Aram,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2022]
©2022
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
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Physical Description:1 online resource (204 p.) :; 2 charts, 11 graphs
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on Transliteration
  • Part I
  • 1 DUTY, AGAINST THE ODDS
  • 2 A NATIONAL THEORY OF CIVIC DUTY
  • Part II
  • 3 NATIONAL STORIES IN SOUTH KOREA AND TAIWAN
  • 4 STRONG CIVIC DUTY IN THE NAME OF NATION IN SOUTH KOREA
  • 5 WEAK CIVIC DUTY AND FRAGMENTED NATION IN TAIWAN
  • Part III
  • 6 STUNTED CIVIC DUTY IN REUNIFIED GERMANY
  • 7 NATIONALISM AND CIVIC DUTY ACROSS THE WORLD
  • 8 CIVIC CHALLENGES TO DEMOCRACY IN EAST ASIA
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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