本書內容包括各種形式的王國建立的方法,也是一部教導野心家如何使用各種手段當上王位的「君王學」。《君王論》為西方政治思想史中聲明最著的經典作品之一,全書探討統治者的治國術(Arte dello stato),分析領導者如何取得、維繫、並擴張其權利。作者馬基維利有意顛覆西方倫理學傳統,主張政治乃獨立於道德之外,他強調權力運作自有理路,如將政治泛道德化必導致毀滅的後果。其理論分析促成了近代政治思想脫離傳統目的論的範圍,並深刻影響了現代民族國家世俗化的政治意識。
This edited volume is intended to showcase the breadth and depth of the collaborative intellectual enterprise that the Asian Barometer Survey (ABS) network has built up over the past two decades. To commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the ABS, we invited ABS partners to contribute their intellectual findings to this edited volume. Except for the introduction, this volume consists of twenty-seven chapters divided into two sections. The first part of the book contains eleven chapters that are based on previously published studies and are updated based on the latest ABS data. The second part of the book focuses on issues specific to each country or autonomous territory and consists of sixteen chapters. Among the topics discussed are potential threats to third-wave democracies, evolving ideology in one-party states, cases of denied democracy, and peculiar challenges faced by long-term democracies. The contributors are the indispensable partners that have made the ABS possible over the