Governance and Democracy in the Asia-Pacific: Political and Civil Society

✍ Scribed by Stephen McCarthy, Mark R. Thompson

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 253
• Series: Politics in Asia
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Series
Title
Copyright
Contents
List of figures
List of tables
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
1 Making Sense of Democracy and Governance in the Asia-Pacific
2 Democracy and Governance: A Conceptual Analysis of a Contested Relation
3 Singapore: Challenges of ‘Good Governance’ Without Liberal Democracy
4 The Good Versus the Many: ‘Good Governance’ and Democracy in Thailand and the Philippines
5 Electoral Governance: Models of Democracy in Asia and the Pacific
6 Can Solomon Islands Escape Its Clientelist Trap?
7 Governance, Rule of Law and Judicial Reform Challenges in Contemporary Cambodia
8 Governance and the Rule of Law: Reflections on Tensions in Thailand
9 Militarized Civil Society and Governance in the Asia-Pacific: Burma (Myanmar) and Fiji
10 Think Tanks and the Governance of Political Transformation in China
11 Governance and Christianity in the PRC
Index