Portfolio question 1: Can Chinese politics be studied scientifically? Discuss with reference to the camp of normativists and positivist China researchers as well as China practitioners. Portfolio question 2: Democracy is not the result of economic modernisation, but a precondition for human development. Discuss in reference to Amartya Sen’s scholarship. Portfolio question 3: To what extent have democratisation studies failed to develop a strong predictive theory? Portfolio question 4: How can nonviolent struggle help liberalise an authoritian political system? Discuss in reference to Gene Sharp’s theory of and for political change ***You have to answer all “four questions” of the portfolio assignment.*** Whether or not you will get a good mark for this coursework assignment will depend on your active participation in this module. The portfolio report is directly linked with the lectures and seminars of Teaching Week 2-5. The four portfolio questions are also directly linked with chapters 1-4 of the book ‘The Struggle for Democracy in Mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong’ (Routledge, 2019). You should roughly allocate 500 words to answer each of the five questions. Please do not write more than 2,000 words, including references. The bibliography is excluded from the word count.
Hide
