著者

拓 徹 湊 一樹

出版者

独立行政法人 日本貿易振興機構アジア経済研究所

雑誌

アジア経済 (ISSN:00022942)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.62, no.2, pp.63-85, 2021-06-15 (Released:2021-07-03)

参考文献数

5

著者

武内 宏樹 湊 一樹 内藤 寛子

出版者

独立行政法人 日本貿易振興機構アジア経済研究所

雑誌

アジア経済 (ISSN:00022942)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.62, no.1, pp.50-72, 2021-03-15 (Released:2021-03-25)

参考文献数

3

著者

湊 一樹

出版者

一般財団法人 アジア政経学会

雑誌

アジア研究 (ISSN:00449237)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.66, no.2, pp.42-51, 2020-04-30 (Released:2020-06-09)

参考文献数

13

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Against a backdrop of growing concern over democratic decline, many scholars have debated whether democracy has been in a global recession for the past decade or so. Based on two major democracy indices, this article presents how political regimes in Asian countries have changed since the mid-2000s—the period when, according to its proponents, a global democratic recession started. Both the Freedom House and Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) measures suggest that the Asian countries that have lower scores now than in 2005 are mostly emerging democracies, but that there is no clear pattern of democratic decline across the region since the mid-2000s. Notably, there was a significant gap between the two indices for some countries, including the Philippines and India, both of which are featured in the current issue of this journal. This seems quite natural, given the different methodologies adopted by the indices to measure democracy. I conclude that country case studies are critical for assessing the extent to which democracy indices can capture the political reality of each country and for determining which index is more sensible than others.

著者

湊 一樹

出版者

日本貿易振興機構アジア経済研究所

雑誌

IDE スクエア -- 論考

巻号頁・発行日

pp.1-18, 2020-07