Book contents
- Regime Type and Beyond
- Regime Type and Beyond
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Part I Framework
- Part II Authoritarian Policing: Past and Present
- Part III Democratic Transition and Authoritarian Resilience
- 7 Public Order, Social Drama, and Legitimate Force
- 8 Adaptive Authoritarian Policing
- 9 Organizational Legacies of Authoritarian Police in Postwar Japan
- 10 Authoritarian Policing and Democratization
- Part IV The Singapore and Hong Kong Exceptions
- Part V Conclusions
- Index
7 - Public Order, Social Drama, and Legitimate Force
Policing Popular Uprisings in Hong Kong and Taiwan, 2014
from Part III - Democratic Transition and Authoritarian Resilience
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 May 2023
- Regime Type and Beyond
- Regime Type and Beyond
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Part I Framework
- Part II Authoritarian Policing: Past and Present
- Part III Democratic Transition and Authoritarian Resilience
- 7 Public Order, Social Drama, and Legitimate Force
- 8 Adaptive Authoritarian Policing
- 9 Organizational Legacies of Authoritarian Police in Postwar Japan
- 10 Authoritarian Policing and Democratization
- Part IV The Singapore and Hong Kong Exceptions
- Part V Conclusions
- Index
Summary
This chapter explores the contrast between Taiwan’s Sunflower Movement and Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement as a natural experiment in comparative policing. I look at the different roles played by police within the larger historical dynamics of these two events. My goal is to distinguish the democratic qualities of Taiwanese policing from the more authoritarian qualities evident in Hong Kong. I develop a theoretical framework for analyzing this distinction by combining Peter Manning’s idea of police dramaturgy with Victor Turner’s theory of social dramas and Carl von Clausewitz’ approach to violent politics. This perspective, I argue, helps illuminate how the democratic qualities of police action in response to unsettling events can influence the longer historical/structural patterns linking what comes after to what went before.
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- Regime Type and BeyondThe Transformation of Police in Asia, pp. 169 - 191Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023