Southeast Asian Responses to Globalization : Restructuring Governance and Deepening Democracy

by Wah, Francis Loh Kok; Ojendal, Joakim

• ISBN13: 9788791114441
• ISBN10: 8791114446
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-05-31
• Publisher: Univ of Hawaii Pr

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	vii
List of Contributors	ix
Abbreviations	xii
INTRODUCTION	1	(56)
Francis Loh Kok Wah and Joakim Öjendal
1 Globalization, Development and Democratization in Southeast Asial	17
Francis Loh Kok Wah
PART ONE: RESTRUCTURING GOVERNANCE
2 Liberalization without Democratization: Singapore in the Next Decade	57	(26)
Chua Beng Huat
3 Globalization, Capital Controls and Reformasi: Crises and Contestations over Governance	83	(27)
Khoo Boo Teik
4 Human Rights in Malaysia: Globalization, National Governance and Local Responses	110	(28)
Saliha Hassan and Carolina López
5 Global Civil Society in One Country? Class Formation and Business Activism in the Philippines	138	(35)
Eva-Lotta E. Hedman
6 Globalization, Inequitable Development and Disenfranchisement in Sarawak	173	(28)
Andrew Aeria
7 The Fall of Suharto: Understanding the Politics of the Global	201	(32)
Dewi Fortuna Anwar
PART TWO: DEEPENING DEMOCRACY
8 Filling the Democratic Deficit: Deliberative Forums and Political Organizing in Indonesia	233	(26)
Hans Antlöv
9 Democracy and the Mainstreaming of Localism in Thailand	259	(28)
Michael Kelly Connors
10 A New Local State in Cambodia? Decentralization as a Political Commodity	287	(29)
Joakim Öjendal
11 Democracy among the Grassroots: Local Responses to Democratic Reforms in Vietnam	316	(29)
Bent Jørgensen
CONCLUSION
12 Democratization amidst Globalization in Southeast Asia: Empirical Findings and Theoretical Reflections	345	(28)
Joakim Öjendal
Index	373