Participation without democracy : containing conflict in Southeast Asia / Garry Rodan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rodan, Garry, 1955- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political participation--Southeast Asia--Case studies.

Political participation.

Representative government and representation--Southeast Asia--Case studies.

Representative government and representation.

Democracy--Southeast Asia--Case studies.

Democracy.

Social conflict--Southeast Asia--Case studies.

Social conflict.

Southeast Asia--Politics and government--21st century.

Southeast Asia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (300 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 2018.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Over the past quarter century new ideologies of participation and representation have proliferated across democratic and non-democratic regimes. In Participation without Democracy, Garry Rodan breaks new conceptual ground in examining the social forces that underpin the emergence of these innovations in Southeast Asia. Rodan explains that there is, however, a central paradox in this recalibration of politics: expanded political participation is serving to constrain contestation more than to enhance it.Participation without Democracy uses Rodan's long-term fieldwork in Singapore, the Philippines, and Malaysia to develop a modes of participation (MOP) framework that has general application across different regime types among both early-developing and late-developing capitalist societies. His MOP framework is a sophisticated, original, and universally relevant way of analyzing this phenomenon. Rodan uses MOP and his case studies to highlight important differences among social and political forces over the roles and forms of collective organization in political representation. In addition, he identifies and distinguishes hitherto neglected non-democratic ideologies of representation and their influence within both democratic and authoritarian regimes. Participation without Democracy suggests that to address the new politics that both provokes these institutional experiments and is affected by them we need to know who can participate, how, and on what issues, and we need to take the non-democratic institutions and ideologies as seriously as the democratic ones.

Contents:

Theorizing institutions of political participation and representation

Ideologies of political representation and the mode of participation framework

History, capitalism, and conflict

Nominated members of parliament in Singapore

Public feedback in Singapore's consultative authoritarianism

The Philippines' party-list system, reformers, and oligarchs

Participatory budgeting in the Philippines

Malaysia's failed consultative representation experiments

Civil society and electoral reform in Malaysia.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781501720116

1501720112

9781501720130

1501720139

OCLC:

1012640744