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The Institutional Imperative
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 370

The Institutional Imperative

This book is a comparative-historical study of the politics of equitable development in Southeast Asia and the role of political institutions in addressing structural inequalities.

Southeast Asia in Political Science
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 482

Southeast Asia in Political Science

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008
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  • Publisher: Unknown

This book provides a state-of-the-art review of Southeast Asian political studies through a dialogue involving theoretical analysis, area studies, and qualitative methodology.

The Institutional Imperative
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 553

The Institutional Imperative

Why do some countries in the developing world achieve growth with equity, while others do not? If democracy is the supposed panacea for the developing world, why have Southeast Asian democracies had such uneven results? In exploring these questions, political scientist Erik Martinez Kuhonta argues that the realization of equitable development hinges heavily on strong institutions, particularly institutionalized political parties and cohesive interventionist states, and on moderate policy and ideology. The Institutional Imperative is framed as a structured and focused comparative-historical analysis of the politics of inequality in Malaysia and Thailand, but also includes comparisons with the Philippines and Vietnam. It shows how Malaysia and Vietnam have had the requisite institutional capacity and power to advance equitable development, while Thailand and the Philippines, because of weaker institutions, have not achieved the same levels of success. At its core, the book makes a forceful claim for the need for institutional power and institutional capacity to alleviate structural inequalities.

Party System Institutionalization in Asia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 375

Party System Institutionalization in Asia

This book provides a comprehensive empirical and theoretical analysis of the development of parties and party systems in Asia. The studies included advance a unique perspective in the literature by focusing on the concept of institutionalization and by analyzing parties in democratic settings as well as in authoritarian settings. The countries covered in the book range from East Asia to Southeast Asia to South Asia.

Participation Without Democracy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 296

Participation Without Democracy

"With an empirical focus on regimes in Singapore, the Philippines, and Malaysia, the author examines the social forces that underpin the emergence of institutional experiments in democratic participation and representation"--

Party System Institutionalization in Asia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 374

Party System Institutionalization in Asia

This book provides a comprehensive empirical and theoretical analysis of the development of parties and party systems in Asia. The studies included advance a unique perspective in the literature by focusing on the concept of institutionalization and by analyzing parties in democratic settings as well as in authoritarian settings. The countries covered in the book range from East Asia to Southeast Asia to South Asia.

Stateness and Democracy in East Asia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 293

Stateness and Democracy in East Asia

  • Categories: Law

Comparative analysis of case studies across East Asia provides new insights into the relationship between state building, stateness, and democracy.

States in the Developing World
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 493

States in the Developing World

An exploration of how states address the often conflicting challenges of development, order, and inclusion.

Headhunting and the Social Imagination in Southeast Asia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 316

Headhunting and the Social Imagination in Southeast Asia

This book brings together material on headhunting from several Southeast Asia societies, examines its cultural contexts, and relates them to colonial history, violence, and ritual.

Southeast Asia and the Middle East
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 404

Southeast Asia and the Middle East

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2009
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  • Publisher: NUS Press

Contemporary concerns with the way the movement of Islamist ideas has radicalized Southeast Asia are put in a necessary deep historical context by this timely book. The fourteen authors represent the best of the new trilingual scholarship doing justice to both Arabic and Indonesian sources. They reach back to the seventh century to explain how trade brought the two crossroads of Eurasia together, and Islam provided the passion and the idiom for their subsequent complex interactions. There are no centers and peripheries in this sophisticated interpretation of how waves of reform have affected both homelands. Such relationships contribute to regional and global events in many crucial ways, and this volume is important for anyone interested in the future of Asia and the Middle East.