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Political
Regimes and Governance in East and Southeast Asia: Problems and Prospects
Since the 1997-98 Asian crisis, there has been increased recognition
among international and multilateral agencies that market systems are
socially and politically embedded. They have been promoting reforms not
just to economic institutions in the East and Southeast Asian region,
but also to social and political institutions, in order to facilitate
more sustainable market economies. Concepts of transparency, accountability,
rule of law, social capital and social safety nets, for example, have
been thematic prescriptions. Meanwhile, a wider debate has surfaced over
whether or not advanced market systems can any longer be reconciled with
authoritarian regimes. The essence of the debate is over whether or not
there are political preconditions for advanced capitalism that are in
conflict with authoritarian regimes.
Within this debate there are two propositions that exert a powerful
influence: first, that liberal market economies are functionally related
to liberal political regimes; and, second, that market development propels
liberal political change through the creation of social forces with a
direct interest in such a direction. In other words, advanced capitalism
represents a direct structural pressure for political liberalism and
indirectly lays the groundwork for human agency to implement such a regime.
The project Political Regimes and Governance in East and Southeast Asia:
Problems and Prospects has been dedicated to a close scrutiny of these
propositions. It has pursued questions that countenance wider possibilities
in the unfolding relationships between advanced capitalism and forms
of political regimes in the region, such as:
* Where authoritarian regimes have collapsed, such as in Indonesia,
what sort of political regimes are emerging?
* Are remaining authoritarian regimes, such as in China, Malaysia and Singapore,
being modified to effectively address external and internal pressures, or are
they facing an inevitable demise?
* Is the embedding of market systems in the region a force for political liberalism,
or might it also entail new opportunities and mechanisms to entrench authoritarian
political regimes?
The project has included workshops, conferences and short-term visits
to the Centre as a way of facilitating research outcomes. While many
of the outcomes of these studies have now been published, some are in
the process of publication and new studies are also being initiated.
Conferences and Workshops Globalisation, Conflict and Political Regimes in East and Southeast
Asia
• Convened by Garry Rodan and Kevin Hewison, collaboration with SEARC,
City University of Hong Kong
• Perth, August 2003
Empire Media and Political Regimes in Asia
• Convened by Krishna Sen and Terence Lee
• Murdoch University, 2004
The Post-Cold War International Order and Domestic Conflict in Asia
•Convened by Vedi Hadiz,Department of Sociology, National University of
Singapore, supported by the Asia Research Centre
•National University of Singapore, 2004
Statutory Bodies and Government-Linked Companies in Hong Kong and Singapore
• Convened by Ian Scott, Murdoch University and Ian Thynne, University
of Hong Kong, collaboration with The Centre for Civil Society and Governance
• Murdoch University, 2004
• University of Hong Kong, 2005
Contestation or Regulation? New Politics in Southeast Asia
• Convened by Garry Rodan and Kanishka Jayasuriya, Murdoch University,
collaboration with Asia Research Institute National University of Singapore
• National University of Singapore, January 2006.
• Murdoch University, December 2006.
Port Privatisation: The Asia-Pacific Experience
• Convened by Malcolm Tull, Murdoch University and James Reveley, University
of Wollongong.
• Murdoch University, July 2006
Mediating Transition to Post-Authoritarian Indonesia
• Convened by David Hill and Krishna Sen
• Murdoch University, October 2006
Publications
* Garry Rodan and Kanishka Jayasuriya,
Democratization, special issue: Beyond Hybrid Regimes, 14 (5)
o Kanishka Jayasuriya and Garry Rodan 'New Trajectories for Political
Regimes in Southeast Asia, Democratization, 14 (5): 767 – 772
o Kanishka Jayasuriya and Garry Rodan 'Beyond Hybrid Regimes: More
Participation, Less Contestation in Southeast Asia, Democratization,
14 (5):
773 – 794
o Garry Rodan and Kanishka Jayasuriya 'The Technocratic Politics of
Administrative Participation: Case Studies of Singapore and Vietnam',
Democratization,
14 (5):
795 – 815
o Andrew Brown 'Labour and Modes of Participation in Thailand', Democratization,
14 (5):
816 – 833
o Caroline Hughes 'Transnational Networks, International Organizations
and Political Participation in Cambodia: Human Rights, Labour Rights
and Common Rights', Democratization, 14 (5):
834 – 852
o Jane Hutchison 'The 'Disallowed' Political Participation of Manila's
Urban Poor', Democratization, 14 (5):
853 – 872
o Vedi R. Hadiz 'The Localization of Power in Southeast Asia', Democratization,
14 (5):
873 – 892
o Cherian George 'Media in Malaysia: Zone of Contention', Democratization,
14 (5):
893 – 910
o Chua Beng Huat 'Political Culturalism, Representation and the People's
Action Party of Singapore', Democratization, 14 (5):
911 – 927
o Kevin Hewison 'Constitutions, Regimes and Power in Thailand', Democratization,
14 (5): 928 – 945
* Krishna Sen and Terence Lee (eds) (2007) Political Regimes and
Media in Asia, Routledge.
*
Max Lane (2007) Bangsa Yang Belum Selesai - Indonesia Sebelum dan Sesudah
Suharto,
Jakarta, Reform Institute, published in English as UNFINISHED NATION:
Indonesia before and after Suharto, London, Verso, 2008
*
Kanishka Jayasuriya (2006) Statecraft, Welfare and the Politics of Inclusion,
Palgrave Macmillan
* Garry Rodan (2006) Neoliberalism and Conflict in Asia after 9/11, London:
Routledge (ed. with Kevin Hewison), 264 pp.
* Ian Scott and Ian Thynne (eds) (2006) Public Organization Review, 6 (3) Special
Issue: Symposium on Statutory Bodies in Hong Kong and Singapore: Issues and
Cases of Organizational Autonomy and Integration .
o Ian Thynne ‘Statutory Bodies: How Distinctive and In What Ways?’, Public Organization Review,
6 (3): 171-184
o Ian Scott, ‘The Government and Statutory Bodies in Hong Kong: Centralization
and Autonomy’, Public Organization Review, 6 (3): 185-202
o Janice Caulfield and Agnes Liu, ‘Shifting Concepts of Autonomy in the
Hong Kong Hospital Authority’, Public Organization Review,
6 (3): 203-219
o Anthony Cheung, ‘How Autonomous are Public Corporations in Hong Kong?
The Case of the Airport Authority’, Public Organization Review,
6 (3): 221-236
o Rikkie Yeung, ‘Integration and Autonomy in Organizational Governance:
A Comparative Study of Two Government-Owned Railways in Hong Kong’, Public
Organization Review, 6 (3): 237-257
o David Jones, ‘Financial Reforms of Statutory Bodies in Singapore: Control
and Autonomy in a Centralized State’, Public Organization Review,
6 (3): 259-276
o Maria Francesch-Huidobro, ‘Statutory Bodies, Land Use Planning and
Conservation in Singapore: Issues and Challenges for Governability’, Public Organization Review,
6 (3): 277-288
o Jeannette Taylor, ‘Statutory Bodies and Performance Reporting: Hong
Kong and Singapore Experience’, Public Organization Review,
6 (3): 289-304
* Garry Rodan and Kevin Hewison, Critical Asian Studies 36(3) and 36(4)
Special Issue:Markets in Transition: Conflict, Political Regimes and
the ‘War
on Terror’ in East and Southeast Asia.
o Mark Beeson, 'US Hegemony and Southeast Asia: The Impact
of, and Limits to, US Power and Influence', Critical Asian Studies,
36(3): 445-462.
o Shaun Breslin, ‘Globalisation, International Coalitions, and Domestic
Reform’, Critical Asian Studies 36(4): 657-676.
o Vedi Hadiz, 'Indonesian Local Party Politics: a Site of Resistance to
Neo-Liberal Reform', Critical Asian Studies 36(4): 615-636.
o Richard Higgott, After Neo-Liberal Globalisation: The “Securitization” of
US Foreign Economic Policy in East Asia’, Critical Asian
Studies 36(3): 425-444.
o Kanishka Jayasuriya,‘The Anti Politics of Good Governance:
From Global Social Policy to a Global Populism?’, Critical
Asian Studies, 36(4).
(with K. Hewison)
o Richard Robison, ‘Neo-Liberalism and the Future World: Markets and
the End of Politics’, Critical Asian Studies, 36(3): 405-424.
o Garry Rodan, ‘Closing the Circle? Globalization, Conflict, and Political
regimes’, Critical Asian Studies, 36(3):383-404. (with Kevin
Hewison)
o Garry Rodan, ‘International Capital, Singapore’s State Companies,
and Security’, Critical Asian Studies, 36(3): 479-499.
o Sally Sargeson, Full Circle? Rural Land Rights Reform in Globalizing
China’,
Critical Asian Studies, 36(4): 637-656.
* Kanishka Jayasuriya (2006) ‘Beyond New Imperialism: State and Transnational
Regulatory Governance in East Asia’, in V.R. Hadiz (ed.), Empire
and Neoliberalism in Asia, Oxford: Routledge.
* Garry Rodan (2006) 'Neoliberal globalization, conflict and security:
new life for authoritarianism in Asia?' in Vedi R. Hadiz (ed.) Empire
and Neoliberalism
in Asia, London: Routledge, 2006, pp. 105-22. (with Kevin Hewison)
* Ian Wilson (2006) ‘Continuity and change: The changing contours of
organized violence in post–New Order Indonesia’, Critical
Asian Studies, 38 (2), June: 265-297
* Ian Scott (2005) Public Administration in Hong Kong: Regime Change
and its Impact on the Public Sector, Singapore: Marshall Cavendish,
496 pp.
* Kanishka Jayasuriya (2005)‘Beyond Institutional Fetishism: From the
Developmental to the Regulatory State', New Political Economy, 10 (3):381–387.
* Kanishka Jayasuriya (2004) ‘The New Regulatory State and Relational
Capacity’, Policy and Politics, 32 (4): 493-508.
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