Globalization and Democracy in Southeast Asia: Challenges, Responses and Alternative Futures

✍ Scribed by Chantana Banpasirichote Wungaeo, Boike Rehbein, Surichai Wun'gaeo (eds.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 315
• Series: Frontiers of Globalization
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book questions why Southeast Asian nation states are struggling to adopt full-fledged liberal democracy and attempts to better understand the relationship between globalization and models of democracy.

Through country studies and a comparative analysis, the chapters offer ideas as to how globalization and democracy in the region should be shaped in the decades to come. Country studies are covered mostly by native Southeast Asian scholars who analyse recent developments as well as specific concerns that have arisen from political crises, citizen uprisings, ethnic identity politics, political reforms, social justice and inequality, and the persistence of the political elite. The collection highlights factors which have impacted the different regional and national paths taken such as: the legacy of the Cold War, rapid economic development and liberalization, external economic globalization, the important role of informal politics, powerful elites, and weak but emerging middle classes.

This book will be of interest to scholars and students of regional studies of Southeast Asia, Democracy, Sociology, Politics and Globalization Studies.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Introduction....Pages 1-13
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
Democracy Is Coming....Pages 17-41
Front Matter....Pages 43-43
The Noisy Right and the Not-So-Silent Moderates: Democracy and All That in Malaysia....Pages 45-62
Singapore’s Social Contract Trilemma....Pages 63-85
The Afterglow of Hun Sen’s Cambodia? Socioeconomic Development, Political Change, and the Persistence of Inequalities....Pages 87-109
Democracy and Middle Classes in Laos....Pages 111-129
Democratization in Vietnam’s Post-Đổi Mới One-Party Rule: Change from Within, Change from the Bottom to the Top, and Possibilities....Pages 131-155
Emerging Democracy and Ethnic Identity Crisis in Myanmar....Pages 157-175
Prosperity and Inequality in Metro Manila: Reflections on Housing the Poor, Climate Risk, and Governance of Cities....Pages 177-197
The Triangular Relations of Society–State–Market: Social Problems in Indonesian Society in the Context of Globalization....Pages 199-211
Front Matter....Pages 213-213
Thailand’s Political Crisis: The Perplexities of Democracy and Society....Pages 215-242
Can Deliberative Democracy Be an Alternative for the Twenty-First Century? A Case Study of Thailand....Pages 243-268
Online Social Surveillance and Cyber-Witch Hunting in Post-2014 Coup Thailand....Pages 269-288
Conclusions: Globalization, Democracy and Challenges....Pages 289-304
Back Matter....Pages 305-312

✦ Subjects

Globalization;Democracy