Dissident Democrats: The Challenge of Democratic Leadership in Asia

ISBN-13: 9780230602663 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 324 str.

John Kane; Haig Patapan; Benjamin Wong

Opis

Dissident democratic leaders are exceptional individuals who risk much trying to advance the cause of democracy in authoritarian regimes. This unique and intriguing book employs fine-grained studies of ten dissident leaders in Asia to show their vital role in democratic transformations. The vivid and dramatic accounts of their political struggles reveal how particular institutional, cultural, religious and ethnic conditions affect individual leaders. They also display the powerful challenges, dangers and temptations that dissidents face. One of the most important themes of the book is the way dissident leaders must learn to manage and negotiate the ambiguities and tensions of democratic leadership itself."

Spis treści

The Challenge of Democratic Leadership; J. Kane and H. Patapan Lee Kuan Yew: Dissident Democrat or Pragmatic Prince?; S. McCarthy Dissident Thaksin?; T. Pongsudhirak Anwar Ibrahim: Semi-dissident; Semi-democrat; M. Weiss Sam Rainsy and the Sam Rainsy Party: Configuring Opposition Politics in Cambodia; K. Un Koizumi Junichiro: The Iconoclast who Remade Japanese Politics; P. Er Lam Ninoy and Cory Aquino: Restoring Democracy to the Philippines; J. Kane Abdurrahman Wahid: the Maverick Dissident Democrat; B. Subianto Lee Teng-hui and Taiwanese Democracy; N. Wu Kim Dae-Jung: Democratic Dissident and Democratic Practitioner; S. Chull Kim Aung San Suu Kyi: Gandhian Dissident Democrat ; Z. Oo Dissident Democrats: Themes and Lessons; J. Kane, H. Patapan and B. Wong

O autorze

JOHN KANE is Professor, Department of Politics and Public Policy, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia. 

HAIG PATAPAN is Associate Professor, Department of Politics and Public Policy, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia.

BENJAMIN WONG is Assistant Professor, Policy and Leadership Studies Academic Group, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.