Building Inclusive Democracies In Asean

Author : Mendoza Ronald U,Teehankee Julio C,Beja Jr Edsel L,La Vina Antonio G M,Villamejor-mendoza Maria Fe
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789813236509

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Building Inclusive Democracies In Asean by Mendoza Ronald U,Teehankee Julio C,Beja Jr Edsel L,La Vina Antonio G M,Villamejor-mendoza Maria Fe Pdf

Containing the latest research and insights of academics and development practitioners pursuing political and economic reforms in the ASEAN region, Building Inclusive Democracies in ASEAN recognizes that a well-functioning democracy is part of what ultimately fosters inclusive growth and development. Inequitable access to democratic processes and mechanisms produce government policies and initiatives that are inconsistent with the needs of the majority.The chapters include empirical research on the symptoms and effects of traditional patron-client politics, experiences, insights, analyses, and policy recommendations, as well as reflections, on reform efforts along the lines of citizens' participation, transparency, and evidence-based policymaking.

Author : Michael Weiner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351246682

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Routledge Handbook of Race and Ethnicity in Asia by Michael Weiner Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Race and Ethnicity in Asia introduces theoretical approaches to the study of race, ethnicity and indigeneity in Asia beyond those commonly grounded in the Western experience. The volume’s twenty-eight chapters consider not only the relationship between ethnic or racial minorities and the state, but social relations within and between individual and transnational communities. These shape not only the contours of governance, but also the means by which knowledge of national identity, ‘self ’, and ‘other’ have been constructed and reconstructed over time. Divided into four sections, it provides holistic and comparative coverage of South, South East, and East Asia, as well as Australasia and Oceania; an area that extends from Pakistan in the West to Hawai’i in the East. Contributors to this handbook offer a variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives, opening a domain of scholarship wherein the relationship between phenotype and racism is less pronounced than European and North American approaches, which have often privileged the so-called ‘colour stigmata’, leading to further exclusions of particular ethnic, racial, and indigenous communities. This volume seeks to overcome racism and white ideologies embedded in theories of race and ethnicity in Asia, proving a valuable resource to both students and scholars of comparative racial and ethnic studies, international relations and human rights.

Author : Edward Aspinall,Meredith L. Weiss,Allen Hicken,Paul D. Hutchcroft
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781009084147

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Mobilizing for Elections by Edward Aspinall,Meredith L. Weiss,Allen Hicken,Paul D. Hutchcroft Pdf

This book compares patronage politics in Southeast Asia, examining the sources and implications of cross-national and sub-national differences. It will be useful for scholars and students interested in comparative and Southeast Asian politics, electoral politics, clientelism and patronage, and the historical development of political institutions.

Author : Boo Teik Khoo,Keiichi Tsunekawa,Motoko Kawano
Publisher : Springer
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319550381

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Southeast Asia beyond Crises and Traps by Boo Teik Khoo,Keiichi Tsunekawa,Motoko Kawano Pdf

This book examines five countries in South East Asia that are instructive case studies of how the region has had to negotiate pathways of development beyond crises and traps. At two ends of just one decade, 1997–2007, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam all had to weather the shocks of an East Asian financial crisis and a global financial crisis. Some economies might have buckled completely under those shocks and been condemned to long-term stagnation. Yet these five economies, part of the larger Asian region, emerged with continued if slower economic growth. An important theme of this book is that their resilience has been partly derived from the pursuit of growth and competitiveness along less known or recommended pathways. The chapters of this book take a novel approach to South East Asia’s search for growth and improvement. They do not begin by evaluating how far macro-level performances would take a particular country towards high-income status. Instead they provide original insights into actual cases of intermediate ways of achieving growth, upgrading and income improvement in non-privileged sectors. Such cases may hold more relevant lessons for the majority of developing countries than the experiences of highly developed economies.

Author : Lago, Ignacio
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781839103285

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Handbook on Decentralization, Devolution and the State by Lago, Ignacio Pdf

Taking a multidisciplinary approach to the dynamics of political and economic decentralization in contemporary regimes, this comprehensive Handbook offers a critical examination of how the decentralization of governance affects citizen well-being.

Author : Gill Steel
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780472131143

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Beyond the Gender Gap in Japan by Gill Steel Pdf

Why do Japanese women enjoy a high sense of well-being in a context of high inequality? Beyond the Gender Gap in Japan brings together researchers from across the social sciences to investigate this question. The authors analyze women’s values and the lived experiences at home, in the family, at work, in their leisure time, as volunteers, and in politics and policy-making. Their research shows that the state and firms have blurred “the public” and “the private” in postwar Japan, constraining individuals’ lives, and reveals the uneven pace of change in women’s representation in politics. Yet, despite these constraints, the increasing diversification in how people live and how they manage their lives demonstrates that some people are crafting a variety of individual solutions to structural problems. Covering a significant breadth of material, the book presents comprehensive findings that use a variety of research methods—public opinion surveys, in-depth interviews, a life history, and participant observation—and, in doing so, look beyond Japan’s perennially low rankings in gender equality indices to demonstrate the diversity underneath, questioning some of the stereotypical assumptions about women in Japan.

Author : Ramon L Clarete,Emmanuel F Esguerra,Hal Hill
Publisher : ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789814786508

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The Philippine Economy by Ramon L Clarete,Emmanuel F Esguerra,Hal Hill Pdf

In this volume, a leading group of scholars pose the question, has the Philippine economy rejoined the dynamic East Asian mainstream and, if so, what set of policies and priorities are required to maintain the strong economic momentum of recent years? Successive chapters address issues related to growth and poverty, infrastructure and urbanization, education, health, the environment, energy, development finance, and governance and institutions. The book has been written with a broad audience in mind. First and foremost it is for readers in, and interested in, this fascinating and important country with a population that now exceeds a hundred million. Second, it will appeal to those in the broader development community with an interest in the analytical and policy challenges that democratic, middle-income countries face as they struggle to lift their citizens out of poverty and to achieve broad-based and environmentally sustainable growth.

Author : Hal Hill,Majah-Leah V Ravago,James A. Roumasset
Publisher : ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute
Page : 814 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789815011067

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Pro-poor Development Policies by Hal Hill,Majah-Leah V Ravago,James A. Roumasset Pdf

“This collection of essays provides a wealth of information and analysis about the Philippine economy and the role of agriculture and economic policy in it. The Philippine experience has been quite different from the highly successful Asian economies, with a long period of low growth until the turn of the century and only then greater success. The authors cover not only the Philippine experience but also place it in its Asian context and that of developing countries more generally. They report on the lessons learned, both positive and negative, from the various economic policies that have been adopted, with regard to both agriculture and to economic inequality. Those interested in Philippine economic development, and Asian development more broadly, will find this an important reference work.”—Anne O. Krueger, Senior Research Professor, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies; 1st Deputy Managing Director, IMF (2001-6); Vice-President of Economics and Research, World Bank (1982-86)

Author : Atena Ştefania Feraru
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351015066

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Weak States, Vulnerable Governments, and Regional Cooperation by Atena Ştefania Feraru Pdf

War, famine, poverty, organized crime, environmental catastrophes, refugees, epidemics and pandemics, modern slavery – all these affect people in the non-Western world to an increasingly disproportionate extent. It is also where wealthy governments wield economic leverage and military force to renegotiate existing norms of international relations. Under these circumstances, it is difficult to overestimate the importance and urgency of comprehending the mechanisms and motivations driving these phenomena. This book is the outcome of a decade-long effort to advance both theoretical and empirical understanding of what motivates non-Western governments’ decisions to cooperate/not cooperate regionally. It starts by acknowledging the Western-centrism of prevailing international relations theories, abandoning deeply entrenched assumptions regarding the nature and roles of states, and redefining state weakness. The inquiry continues by elaborating this new concept and applying it to Southeast Asian polities while positing that it creates governments vulnerable to internal and external threats, in line with Joel S. Migdal’s well-known findings on the topic. A set of regional cooperation strategies is then inferred, based on the survival needs of insecure governing elites and its empirical validity is tested against the experience of regional organizations in Africa, Asia, and the Americas. The second part of the book provides an in-depth examination of how Southeast Asian governments’ shared security needs and interests shaped the emergence of the identified regional cooperation pattern and its evolution over 50 years of cooperation within the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). Overall, this book is a call to international relations scholars to do our part in understanding non-Western experiences and making a substantive contribution to addressing humanity’s most intractable security threats.

Author : Michael J. Green,Bates Gill
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231144438

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Asia's New Multilateralism by Michael J. Green,Bates Gill Pdf

Traditionally, stability in Asia has relied on America's bilateral alliances with Japan, Australia, and the Republic of Korea. Yet in recent years, emergent and more active multilateral forums--such as the Six-Party Talks on North Korea and the East Asia Summit--have taken precedence, engendering both cooperation and competition while reflecting the local concerns of the region. Some are concerned that this process is moving toward less-inclusive, bloc-based "talking shops" and that the future direction and success of these arrangements, along with their implications for global and regional security and prosperity, remain unclear. The fifteen contributors to this volume, all leading scholars in the field, provide national perspectives on regional institutional architecture and their functional challenges. They illuminate areas of cooperation that will move the region toward substantive collaboration, convergence of norms, and strengthened domestic institutions. They also highlight the degree to which institution building in Asia--a region composed of liberal democracies, authoritarian regimes, and anachronistic dictatorships--has become an arena for competition among major powers and conflicting norms, and assess the future shape of Asian security architecture.

Author : Michael T. Rock
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780190619862

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Dictators, Democrats, and Development in Southeast Asia by Michael T. Rock Pdf

"An examination of how dictators and democrats in Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand built and sustained pro-growth political coalitions"--

Author : Raul Cordenillo,Karin Gardes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Associations, institutions, etc
ISBN : 9187729067

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Inclusive Political Participation and Representation by Raul Cordenillo,Karin Gardes Pdf

Participation and representation are two fundamental elements and principles of democracy: they affirm that a democracy is dependent on its citizens and that this ownership is expressed through meaningful participation by and representation of all citizens in democratic institutions and processes. Underpinning all this is the idea that every citizen—regardless of class, age, gender, sexual orientation, ability, group, culture, and ethnic or religious background—should have an equal right and opportunity to engage with and contribute to the functioning of these institutions and processes. This publication documents and highlights the experiences and innovation of regional organizations in promoting inclusive political participation and representation. Focused on civil society engagement, gender mainstreaming, and regional parliaments, this publication not only provides food for thought for policymakers and practitioners but also facilitates understanding of the contexts in which regional organizations operate.

Author : Eduardo; Hutchcroft Araral Jr. (Paul D.; Llanto, Gilberto M.; Malaya, Jonathan E.; Mendoza, Ronald U.; Teehankee, Julio C.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9715508464

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Debate on Federal Philippines by Eduardo; Hutchcroft Araral Jr. (Paul D.; Llanto, Gilberto M.; Malaya, Jonathan E.; Mendoza, Ronald U.; Teehankee, Julio C.) Pdf

Author : Inter-parliamentary Union
Publisher : Inter-Parliamentary Union
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Democracy
ISBN : 9789291420360

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Democracy by Inter-parliamentary Union Pdf

Principles to realization - Cherif Bassiouni

Author : G. Shabbir Cheema,Vesselin Popovski
Publisher : UN
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCSD:31822037505492

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Building Trust in Government by G. Shabbir Cheema,Vesselin Popovski Pdf

The ability of governments and the global community to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, ensure security, and promote adherence to basic standards of human rights depends on people's trust in their government. However, public trust in government and political institutions has been declining in both developing and developed countries in the new millennium. One of the challenges in promoting trust in government is to engage citizens, especially the marginalized groups and the poor, into the policy process to ensure that governance is truly representative, participatory, and benefits all.