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

ISBN-13: 9780415720632 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 240 str.

William Case; Stephen McCarthy

Opis

In the Asia Pacific region, historical legacies and social structures dispose civil and political society to interact in different ways to Western best-practice scenarios which then go on to produce have implications for democracy and governance. These outcomes are derived from conditions that are delicately intertwined and are influenced by, and have influence upon, colonial legacies, religion, ethnic pluralism, the role of the military, the monarchy, bureaucratic capacities, constitutions, party systems, elections, executive-legislative relations, and the judiciaries. This book examines this complex network of underlying conditions and the relations between them, examining the nature of civil and political society in the Asia-Pacific region as well as the presence, or absence, of good governance and democracy. Divded into three themes - governance and democracy, political society, and civil society - each theme is intended to focus our attention on the kinds of issues it identifies and, in turn, encourage both an analytical and a comparative study between a number of similar countries or cases in the Asia Pacific region.

Spis treści

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. 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