Democratisation Governance and Regionalism in East and Southeast Asia A Comparative Study 1st Edition by Ian Marsh 0415376238 9780415376235

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ISBN 10: 0415376238 

ISBN 13: 9780415376235

Author: Ian Marsh

This new collection of essays compares the development of central institutions of governance in the emerging democracies of East and South East Asia. Seven key countries are covered: Taiwan, Korea, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines. Save for Singapore and Malaysia, all have democratized over the past decade. Because of its constitutive implications for citizen identities, democratization is arguably of even greater potential significance than the economic take-off that preceded it. But there are distinctive features that give the experience of these seven states especial relevance. First, unlike analogous western patterns, democratic transitions in Asia have been top-down in character. Second, the implementation of basic democratic forms was highly compressed in time. Third there were (and are), in most countries, no major ideological or programmatic cleavages. Thus the bases around which contending political forces might organize are not immediately clear. This may affect the outlook for partisanship and mobilization. There has been no synoptic, comparative study of these developments on a region-wide scale. This book fills the gap extremely well.

Table of contents:

1 Introduction

Part I Representation

2 Political culture and democratic consolidation in East and Southeast Asia

3 Parties and party systems in East and Southeast Asia

Part II Governance

4 The national executives in East and Southeast Asia

5 Bureaucratic performance, policy capacity and administrative reform

6 Economic governance and global engagement

Independent and dependent linkage

Part III Regionalism

7 Regionalism and state capacity in East Asia

8 Has the Japanese model ceased to be a magnet in Asia?

9 Citizens’ values in East and Southeast Asia

Part IV Conclusion

10 Democratisation, regionalism and state capacity in East and Southeast Asia

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