1st Edition

Elections as Popular Culture in Asia

Edited By Chua Beng Huat Copyright 2007
224 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

216 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

224 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Conventional political science depicts legitimate elections as rational affairs in which informed voters select candidates for office according to how their coherently presented aims, ideologies and policies appeal to the self-interest of the electorate. In reality elections, whether in first world democracies, or in the various governmental systems present in Asia, can more realistically be seen... Read more

1: Political Election as Popular Culture, Chua Beng Huat

2: The Festive Machine: Taiwan’s 2004 election, Ko Yufen

3: Popular Protest and Electioneering in a Partial Democracy, Hong Kong, Wan-chaw SHAE & Pik-wan WONG

4: Performance Factors in Indonesian Elections, Jennifer Lindsay

5: Betting on Democracy: electoral ritual at the Philippine presidential campaign, Filomeno V. Aguilar, Jr.

6: Middle Class Electoral Cultural Practices in Thailand, Pitch Pongsawat

7: Election with known Outcome: engaging the 2004 Malaysian election, Francis Loh Kok Wah

8: Fun with Democracy: election coverage and the elusive subject of Indian politics, Madhava Prasad

9: Net Power and Politics in Korea, Keehyeung Lee

10: Depersonalization is Politically Correct: Japanese Electioneering Practices, Kaori Tsurumoto

Biography

Chua Beng Huat is Leader of the Cultural Studies Research Cluster at the Asia Research Institute and Professor in the Department of Sociology at the National University of Singapore.