356 Pages
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Routledge
356 Pages
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Routledge
356 Pages
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Routledge
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Industrialization has meant sweeping social transformations across Asia. Some political commentators have predicted that the expansion of civil society and the rapid development of liberal democracy will necessarily follow. The contributors to this volume dissect the extent of political opposition in Asia and analyze the nature of new social movements outside institutional party politics which are... Read more
Chapter 1 Theorising political opposition in East and Southeast Asia, Garry Rodan; Chapter 2 The ebb and flow of civil society and the decline of the Left in Southeast Asia, Kevin Hewison, Garry Rodan; Chapter 3 Political oppositions and regime change in Thailand, Kevin Hewison; Chapter 4 State—society relations and political opposition in Singapore, Garry Rodan; Chapter 5 The syncretic state and the structuring of oppositional politics in Malaysia, James V. Jesudason; Chapter 6 The changing ruling elite and political opposition in China, Anita Chan; Chapter 7 Chinese political opposition in exile, He Baogang; Chapter 8 The broadening base of political opposition in Indonesia, Edward Aspinall; Chapter 9 Indonesian middle-class opposition in the 1990s, Ariel Heryanto; Chapter 10 New social movements and the changing nature of political opposition in South Korea, Bronwen Dalton, James Cotton; Chapter 11 Mobilisational authoritarianism and political opposition in Taiwan, Shelley Rigger;
Biography
Garry Rodan is Senior Research Fellow at the Asia Research Centre, Murdoch University.
