Jones, Brian Christopher and Su, Yen-Tu (2015) Confrontational Contestation and Democratic Compromise: The Sunflower Movement and its Aftermath. Hong Kong Law Journal, 45 (1). pp. 193-210.
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Abstract
This piece describes the two conflicting governmental visions involved in the events surrounding the Taiwan Sunflower Movement, and attempts to justify the Movement from the perspective of democratic theory. In doing so we analyse the justifications Sunflower Movement leaders put forward for their occupation, and present a novel theory of “confrontational contestation”. The theory stems from the belief that the Sunflower Movement events represented a unique type of democratic disobedience, and new understandings regarding disobedience have emerged from these circumstances. The second part of our paper analyses the cases for and against prosecuting Sunflower Movement members. Ultimately, we decide that prosecution would only enhance political conflict, while non-prosecution (i.e., democratic compromise) would enhance democratic peace, therefore advocating the latter.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Faculty / Department: | Faculty of Business, Law and Criminology > School of Law and Criminology |
| Depositing User: | Brian Christopher Jones |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Oct 2016 15:22 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Jan 2018 17:53 |
| URI: | https://hira.hope.ac.uk/id/eprint/482 |
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