Liberal democracy is established as the normative model of political organization for all societies in public consciousness at the turn of the twentieth century. The ideas of human rights and social justice provide the norm to evaluate the performance of the governments, today. The empirical evidence across the globe shows a clear trend towards democratization, secularization and rationalization of governmental procedures and political cultures. The forces of modernization and globalization provide a thrust to these trends. The Southeast Asia, in general, and Malaysia, in particular, are no...
Liberal democracy is established as the normative model of political organization for all societies in public consciousness at the turn of the twentie...