The Politics of Accountability in Southeast Asia
Title | The Politics of Accountability in Southeast Asia PDF eBook |
Author | Garry Rodan |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 257 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0198703538 |
This book examines different ideologies and related political coalitions forming the bases of movements for accountability reform in Southeast Asia.
The Politics of Accountability in Southeast Asia
Title | The Politics of Accountability in Southeast Asia PDF eBook |
Author | Garry Rodan |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Democracy |
ISBN | 9780191772641 |
This volume examines different ideologies and related political coalitions forming the bases of movements for accountability reform in Southeast Asia.
Executive Accountability in Southeast Asia
Title | Executive Accountability in Southeast Asia PDF eBook |
Author | William Case |
Publisher | |
Pages | 74 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9781932728880 |
Analysis uncovers that in the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Cambodia, and Singapore, the executive is held more accountable by legislatures under electoral authoritarianism than in new democracies. Rather than leading to a transition to democratic politics, this accountability strengthens authoritarian rule.
Institutional Engineering and Political Accountability in Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines
Title | Institutional Engineering and Political Accountability in Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines PDF eBook |
Author | Patrick Ziegenhain |
Publisher | Flipside Digital Content Company Inc. |
Pages | 411 |
Release | 2016-05-13 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9814519707 |
Political accountability is a crucial element of any democracy since it is a safeguard against power abuse and corruption, both urgent problems of many political systems in Southeast Asia. Based on social science theories, the author analyses from a comparative perspective the ways institutional engineering concerning different dimensions of political accountability influenced the quality of democracy in Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines. By highlighting the successes and shortcomings, this book evaluates the degree these institutional reforms resulted in the deepening, stagnation, or regression of the respective democratization processes in these three Southeast Asian countries.
Governance and Democracy in the Asia-Pacific
Title | Governance and Democracy in the Asia-Pacific PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen McCarthy |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 2020-03-17 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1317961684 |
This book explores the theoretical and empirical relationship between democracy and governance in the Asia-Pacific region. Examining a variety of country cases and themes addressing the theoretical tension between governance and democracy, it illuminates how this impacts political and civil societies across the region. Analysing the character, structure and current trajectories of polities in the Asia-Pacific, democratic or otherwise, this book demonstrates that the role of civil society, political society and governance has significantly differed in practice from what has been commonly assumed within the international community. The book includes both theoretical investigations tracing the modern development of the concepts of governance, development and democratization as well as regional and country-specific observations of major issues, presenting comprehensive country-level studies of China, Singapore, Thailand, Cambodia, the Philippines, Myanmar, Fiji and the Solomon Islands. Presenting fascinating insight into non-democratic governance, civil society and the rule of law in illiberal contexts, Governance and Democracy in the Asia-Pacific will prove to be of great use to students and scholars of Asian politics and society, as well as international and comparative politics.
Participation without Democracy
Title | Participation without Democracy PDF eBook |
Author | Garry Rodan |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Pages | 196 |
Release | 2018-05-15 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1501720120 |
Over the past quarter century new ideologies of participation and representation have proliferated across democratic and non-democratic regimes. In Participation without Democracy, Garry Rodan breaks new conceptual ground in examining the social forces that underpin the emergence of these innovations in Southeast Asia. Rodan explains that there is, however, a central paradox in this recalibration of politics: expanded political participation is serving to constrain contestation more than to enhance it. Participation without Democracy uses Rodan’s long-term fieldwork in Singapore, the Philippines, and Malaysia to develop a modes of participation (MOP) framework that has general application across different regime types among both early-developing and late-developing capitalist societies. His MOP framework is a sophisticated, original, and universally relevant way of analyzing this phenomenon. Rodan uses MOP and his case studies to highlight important differences among social and political forces over the roles and forms of collective organization in political representation. In addition, he identifies and distinguishes hitherto neglected non-democratic ideologies of representation and their influence within both democratic and authoritarian regimes. Participation without Democracy suggests that to address the new politics that both provokes these institutional experiments and is affected by them we need to know who can participate, how, and on what issues, and we need to take the non-democratic institutions and ideologies as seriously as the democratic ones.
Governance in Southeast Asia
Title | Governance in Southeast Asia PDF eBook |
Author | Eduardo T. Gonzalez |
Publisher | |
Pages | 120 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Southeast Asia |
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