BA (WAIT), BA(Hons) Murdoch,
PhD (Murd)
Australian Professorial Fellow of the Australian
Research Council (2010-2014) and a Professor
in the Politics and International Studies Programme
of the School of Social Sciences and Humanities,
with a thematic research interest in the relationship
between economic and social change in Southeast
Asia and political regime directions in the
region. Attempting to characterize and explain
dynamic and durable forms of authoritarian rule
has been a particular focus, especially in Singapore.
He is currently undertaking two major projects
funded by the Australian Research Council: ‘Representation
and Political Regimes in Southeast Asia’
and ‘The Politics of Accountability Reform
in Southeast Asia’ (this project jointly
with Associate-Professor Caroline Hughes). Recent
research examines new forms of political participation
in authoritarian regimes and the social foundations
of authoritarianism, while other projects have
studied the political economy of the international
media, the political impact of the Internet,
and the implications of transparency reform
in Southeast Asia for politics. He is the author
of Transparency and Authoritarian Rule in
Southeast Asia (RoutledgeCurzon 2004),
The Political Economy of Singapore?s Industrialization
(MacMillan, 1989), the editor of Political
Oppositions in Industrializing Asia (Routledge
1996), Singapore Changes Guard (Longman
1993) and Singapore (Ashgate 2001),
and the joint editor of The Political Economy
of Southeast Asia (Oxford University Press
1997, Revised editions 2001 and 2006) and Southeast
Asia in the 1990s: Authoritarianism, Capitalism
and Democracy (Allen & Unwin 1993). He was recently elected as a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.
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- The Political Economy of South-East Asia: Markets, power and contestation (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2006, pp. 336) [co-edited with K. Hewison & R Robison]
- Neoliberalism and Conflict in Asia after 9/11 (London & New York: RoutledgeCurzon (2006, 253 pp.; paperback 2009) [co-editor with K. Hewison]
- Transparency and Authoritarian Rule in Southeast Asia: Singapore and Malaysia (London: Routledge, 2004, 272 pp.; paperback edition 2005)
- The Political Economy of South-East Asia: Conflict, Crises, and Change (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2001, 306 pp.) [joint editor with K.Hewison & R. Robison]
- Singapore, International Library of Social Change in Asia-Pacific Series (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001, 520 pp.) [editor]
- The Political Economy of South-East Asia: An Introduction (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1997, 299 pp.) [joint editor with K.Hewison & R.Robison]
- Political Oppositions in Industrialising Asia (London & New York: Routledge, 1996, 321 pp.) [editor]
- Southeast Asia in the 1990s: Authoritarianism, Democracy and Capitalism (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1993, 249 pp.) [joint editor with K. Hewison & R.Robison]
- Singapore Changes Guard: Social, Political and Economic Directions in the 1990s (Melbourne: Longman Cheshire, 1993, 209 pp.) [editor]
- The Political Economy of Singapore's Industrialization: National State and International Capital (London: Macmillan; New York: St Martin's Press, 1989, 266 pp.) Translated into Japanese by Keiko Tsuji Tamura for San'ichi Press, Tokyo, 1992.
- Beyond Hybrid Regimes’, Special Issue, Democratization, 14(5), 2007 [with Kanishka Jayasuriya]
- Markets in Transition: Conflict, Political Regimes, and the “War on Terror” in East and Southeast Asia’, Two Feature Issues, Critical Asian Studies, 36(3) & 36(4), 2004. [with Kevin Hewison]
- ‘Electronic Media, Markets and Civil Society in East and Southeast Asia’, Special Edition, The Pacific Review, 16(4), 2003.
- ‘The Prospects for Civil Society in Southeast Asia’, Eastern Asia Policy Papers, No. 18 (University of Toronto - York University Joint Centre for Asia Pacific Studies, 1997, 28pp.)
- ‘Singapore's 'Second Industrial Revolution': State Policy and Foreign Investment," ASEAN-Australian Economic Papers, No. 18 (ASEAN-Australian Joint Research Project, Kuala Lumpur and Canberra: 1985, 68 pp.)
- ‘Competing Ideologies of Political Representation in Southeast Asia,’ Third World Quarterly, 33(2), 2012, pp. 335-56.
- ‘Ideological Coalitions and the International Promotion of Social Accountability: The Philippines and Cambodia Compared,’ International Studies Quarterly, forthcoming June 2012 issue. [with Caroline Hughes]
- ‘New Modes of Political Participation and Singapore’s Nominated Members of Parliament’, Government and Opposition, 44(4), 2009, pp. 438-62.
- ‘Capitalist Development, Regime Transitions and New Forms of Authoritarianism in Asia’, The Pacific Review, 22(1), 2009, pp. 23-47. [with Kanishka Jayasuriya]
- ‘Accountability and Authoritarianism: Human Rights in Malaysia and Singapore’, Journal of Contemporary Asia, 39(2), 2009, pp. 180-203.
- ‘New Trajectories for Political Regimes in Southeast Asia’, Democratization, 14(5), 2007, pp. 767-772. [with Kanishka Jayasuriya]
- ‘Beyond Hybrid Regimes: More Participation, Less Contestation in Southeast Asia’, Democratization, 14(5), 2007, pp. 773-794. [with Kanishka Jayasuriya] Awarded the Frank Cass Prize for the best article in Democratization published in 2007.
- ‘The Technocratic Politics of Administrative Participation: Case Studies of Singapore and Vietnam’, Democratization, 14(5), 2007, pp. 795-815. [with Kanishka Jayasuriya]
- ‘Singapore in 2005: Vision of a “vibrant and cosmopolitan” city-state without political pluralism’, Asian Survey, 46(1), 2006, pp. 180-6.
- ‘Political Regimes and the “War on Terror” in Southeast Asia’, First International Sources of Insecurity Conference, 17-19 November 2004, Refereed Conference Proceedings, Melbourne: The Globalism Institute, RMIT, 2004.
- ‘Singapore in 2004: Long-Awaited Leadership Transition’, Asian Survey, 45(1), 2005, pp. 140-5.
- ‘Governance and Conflict’, Critical Asian Studies, 36(4), 2004, pp. 567-9. [with Kevin Hewison]
- ‘Closing the Circle? Globalization, Conflict, and Political Regimes’, Critical Asian Studies, 36(3), 2004, pp. 383-404. [with Kevin Hewison]
- ‘International Capital, Singapore’s State Companies, and Security’, Critical Asian Studies, 36(3), 2004, pp. 479-499.
- ‘Embracing Electronic Media but Suppressing Civil Society: Authoritarian Consolidation in Singapore’, The Pacific Review, 16(4), 2003, pp. 503-24
- ‘Do Markets Need Transparency? The Pivotal Cases of Singapore and Malaysia’, New Political Economy, 7(1), 2002, pp. 23-47.
- ‘Asian Crisis, Transparency and the International Media in Singapore’, The Pacific Review, 13(2), 2000, pp. 217-242.
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‘Progress and Limits in Regional Cooperation: Australia and Southeast Asia,’ in James Cotton and John Ravenhill (editors), Middle Power Dreaming: Australia in World Affairs 2006-2010 (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2011, pp. 165-84).
- ‘Hybrid Regimes: A Social Foundation Approach,’ in Jeffrey Haynes (editor), Routledge Handbook on Democratization (London: Routledge, 2012, pp. 175-189). [with Kanishka Jayasuriya]
- ‘Consultative Authoritarianism and Regime Change Analysis: Implications of the Singapore Case,’ in Richard Robison (editor), Routledge Handbook on Southeast Asian Politics (London: Routledge, 2012, pp. 120-34).
- ‘Southeast Asia: The Left and the Rise of Bourgeois Opposition,’ in Richard Robison (editor), Routledge Handbook on Southeast Asian Politics (London: Routledge, 2012, pp. 25-39). [with Kevin Hewison]
- ‘Political Accountability and Human Rights in Singapore,’ in Thomas Davis and Brian Galligan (editors), Human Rights in Asia (London: Edward Elgar, 2011, pp. 70-90).
- ‘Goh’s Consensus Politics of Authoritarian Rule’ in Bridget Welsh, James Chin, Arun Mahizhan and Tan Tarn How (editors), Impressions of the Goh Chok Tong Years in Singapore (Singapore: Singapore University Press, 2009, pp. 61-70).
- ‘Singapore “Exceptionalism”? Authoritarian Rule and State Transformation’ in Joseph Wong and Edward Friedman (editors), Political Transitions in Dominant Party Systems: Learning to Lose (New York: Routledge, 2008, pp. 231-51).
- Political Regimes in Southeast Asia and the War on Terror’ in Damian Grenfell and Paul James (editors), Rethinking Insecurity, War and Violence: Beyond savage globalization? (London: Routledge, 2008, pp. 125-37).
- ‘Neoliberalism and Transparency: Political Versus Economic Liberalism’ in Richard Robison (editor), The Neoliberal Revolution: Forging the Market State (London: Palgrave, 2006, pp. 197-215).
- ‘Introduction: Globalization, Conflict, and Political Regimes in East and Southeast Asia’ in Garry Rodan and Kevin Hewison (editors), Neoliberalism and Conflict in Asia after 9/11’ (London: Routledge, 2006, pp. 1-24). [with Kevin Hewison].
- ‘Neoliberal globalization, conflict and security: new life for authoritarianism in Asia? in Vedi R. Hadiz (editor) Empire and Neoliberalism in Asia (London: Routledge, 2006, pp. 105-22). [with Kevin Hewison]
- ‘Theorising Markets in South-East Asia: Power and Contestation’, in Garry Rodan, Kevin Hewison and Richard Robison (editors) The Political Economy of South-East Asia: Markets, power and contestation (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2006, pp. 1-38). [with Kevin Hewison and Richard Robison]
- ‘Singapore: Globalisation, the State, and Politics’ in Garry Rodan, Kevin Hewison and Richard Robison (editors) The Political Economy of South-East Asia: Markets, power and contestation (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2006, pp. 137-69).
- ‘Westminster in Singapore: Now You See it, Now You Don’t’, in Haig Patapan, John Wanna and Patrick Weller (editors), Westminster Legacies: Democracy and Responsible Government in Asia and the Pacific (Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2005, pp. 109-28).
- ‘Transplanting the neoliberal state in Southeast Asia’ in Richard Boyd and Tak-Wing Ngo (editors), Asian States: Beyond the developmental perspective (London: Routledge, 2005, pp. 172-98). [with Richard Robison and Kevin Hewison]
- ‘Authoritarian Rule and Transparency Reform: Malaysia and Singapore After the Economic Crisis’ in Luigi Tomba (editor), East Asian Capitalism: Conflicts, Growth and Crisis (Milan: Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, 2002, pp. 253-86).
- ‘The Implications of the Asian Crisis for Media Control in Asia’ in Mark Beeson (editor), Reconfiguring East Asia: Regional Institutions and Organisations After the Crisis (London: RoutledgeCurzon Press, 2002, pp. 61-82).
- ‘Introduction’, in Garry Rodan (editor), Singapore, International Library of Social Change in Asia-Pacific series, (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001, pp. xi-xxxiii).
- ‘Singapore: Globalisation and the Politics of Economic Restructuring’, in Garry Rodan, Kevin Hewison & Richard Robison (editors), The Political Economy of South-East Asia: Conflict, Crises, and Change (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2001, pp. 138-77).
- ‘Theorising South-East Asia’s Boom, Bust and Recovery’ (joint chapter with K. Hewison and R. Robison), in Garry Rodan, Kevin Hewison & Richard Robison (editors), The Political Economy of South-East Asia: Conflict, Crises, and Change (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2001, pp. 1-43)
- ‘The Prospects for Civil Society and Political Space in Southeast Asia’ in Amitav Acharya, B. Michael Frolic and Richard Stubbs (editors), Democracy, Civil Society and Human Rights in Asia (Toronto: Joint Centre for Asia Pacific Studies, 2001, pp. 55-88).
- ‘Singapore: Information Lockdown, Business as Usual’ in Louise Williams and Roland Rich (editors), Losing Control: Freedom of the Press in Asia (Canberra: Asia Pacific Press, Australian National University, 2000, pp. 169-189).
- ‘Singapore Divides Over Elite Rule,’ The Wall Street Journal, 31 August 2011, p. 13.
- ‘A Rare Contentious Election in Singapore,’ Asia Sentinel, 17 August 2011.
- ‘Analyzing the Singapore Election: A Step on the Long Road to Political Pluralism?’ Asia Sentinel, 11 May 2011.
- ‘Singapore’s “Accountability Election,”’ The Wall Street Journal, 6 May 2011, p. 11.
- ‘Human Rights, Singapore Style,’ Far Eastern Economic Review, December 2009, pp. 27-31.
- ‘Singapore Maneuvers in Response to Chee,’ Far Eastern Economic Review, December 2008, pp. 39-41.
- ‘Scrutinizing Singapore’, The Wall Street Journal (Asia), 21 June, 2007, p. 13.
- ‘Singapore’s Founding Myths vs. Freedom’, Far Eastern Economic Review, October 2006, pp. 13-17.
- ‘A Singapore Surprise’, The Wall Street Journal (Asia), 9 May 2006, p. 15.
- ‘Lion City Baits Mousy Opposition’, Far Eastern Economic Review, May 2006, pp. 11-17.
- ‘Singapore’s Levers of Power’, The Wall Street Journal (Asia), 10-12 February, 2006, p. 13.
- ‘Image of Singapore tarnished’, The Australian, 29 November 2005, p. 12.
- ‘The Coming Challenge to Singapore Inc.’, Far Eastern Economic Review, December, 2004, pp. 51-4.
- ‘Mahathir and Beyond’, The West Australian, 18 October, 2003, p. 20.
- ‘Cyber Civil Society? Keeping a Tight Grip on the Internet’, Asian Wall Street Journal, 13 June 2002, p. A13.
- ‘Goh seals vote before poll’, Australian Financial Review, 30 October 2001, p. 54.
- ‘Opening for SingTel – but media doors keep closing’, Australian Financial Review, 24 August 2001, p. 75.
- ‘Singapore tightens grip’, The West Australian, 30 June 2001, p. 26.
- ‘Free press missing from Malaysia transparency plan’, Australian Financial Review, 27 January 2000, p. 17.
- ‘Mental Block’, Asiaweek, 12 May, 2000, pp. 44-45.
- Regular commentator on various aspects of politics in Southeast Asia for Radio Australia, ABC Radio National, Radio Singapore International; television appearances on SBS programme ‘Dateline’, ABC Lateline, and CNN Biz-News; quoted and referred to in Asian Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Reuters, New York Times, Straits Times (Singapore), Business Times (Singapore), New Straits Times (Malaysia) and other regional and international publications and electronic services.
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- ‘Representation and Political Regimes in Southeast Asia,’ Australian Research Council Discovery Project Grant, 2010-14, Australian Professorial Fellowship, $613,182.
- ‘The Politics of Accountability Reform in Southeast Asia’, Australian Research Council Discovery Project Grant, 2009-11, $156,000 (with Caroline Hughes)
- ‘Contestation or Regulation? New Politics in Southeast Asia’, Australian Research Council Discovery Project Grant, 2005-6, $75,000 (with Kanishka Jayasuriya).
- ‘Market Development and Media Censorship: the International Press and Electronic Business Information Services’, Australian Research Council Large Grant, 1999-2000, $56,000.
- As Director of the Asia Research Centre, Murdoch University, during 2003-2009, I led research fund raising initiatives that resulted in $3.14 million national and international research grant money and a further $400,000 in internal university grants.
- 2006 Australia-Japan Year of Exchange Grass-roots Support, Public Lecture Series, ‘Japan’s Role in Asia: New Dynamics, New Directions,’ $17,500.
- 2006 Australia-Japan Year of Exchange Grass-roots Support, Symposium on ‘Japan-Australia Free Trade Agreement: How likely and who benefits?’$5,000.
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| Professional and community service |
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- Philippine Journal of Political Science, 2012-
- The Australian Journal of Political Science, 2011-
- Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, 2010-
- Contemporary Politics, 2008-
- The Australian Journal of International Affairs, 2008-
- Kasarinlan: Philippine Journal of Third World Studies, 2003-
- The Pacific Review, 2002-
- Global Economic Review, 2000-
- Australian Institute for International Affairs Research Committee, 2010-
- Australian Reader, Australian Research Council, 2005-
- International Expert Assessor for the Australian Research Council, 2003-4
- Assessor for the Australia-Netherlands Research Collaboration, 2008-2009
- Assessor for Research Grants Council, Hong Kong, 2006-
- Advisory Board member, Southeast Asia Research Centre, City University of Hong Kong, 2002-
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| Doctoral and masters supervisions |
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I am able to supervise projects examining aspects of political regime dynamics and new modes of governance in Southeast Asia. This includes ideological and institutional changes in either democratic or authoritarian regimes. Studies into state-civil society relationships and changing structures of state power are within my supervisory capacity, as are examinations of the forms of competing notions and support bases of political transparency, accountability and representation. This includes projects interested in understanding how changing patterns of economic and social organisation associated with capitalist and market development relate to support for, and opposition to, particular institutions and ideologies.
Current and recent projects under my supervision include: the implications of increasing labour migration in Southeast Asia for institutions and ideologies of political representation; media-elite interactions in post-Soeharto Indonesia; state transformations and risk management at the fringes of the global order; the politics of the World Bank's promotion of neoliberal institutionalism in Southeast Asia; the Salafi movement and Internet usage in contemporary Indonesia.
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| Contact Details |
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- Australian Professorial Fellow of the Australian
Research Council, Asia Research Centre, Murdoch
University, Murdoch, Western Australia 6150.
Fax: (61-8) 9360 6381 Email: G.Rodan@murdoch.edu.au
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