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The Power of Ideas - Intellectual Input and Political Change in East and Southeast Asia (Hardcover)
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The Power of Ideas - Intellectual Input and Political Change in East and Southeast Asia (Hardcover)
Series: NIAS Studies in Asian Topics Series, No. 36
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The traditional approach to studying the politics of a region is to
focus on events, personalities, issues - the mechanics of the
political process. What this volume looks to do is to step back and
examine ideas and visions, as well as those who articulate them
and/or put them into operation. The contributors thus aim to
conceptualize what discourse means for political change in East and
Southeast Asia, and how ideas in discourses affect political
practice. As well as theorizing on the roles of intellectuals,
ideas and discourses for processes of democratization, reform and
change, the chapters also offer deep insights into the national and
local, into the general and the specific situation of the selected
countries. The volume touches upon three themes. One reflects the
relationship of different actor groups - such as the state, NGOs,
social movements, and intellectuals. Another reveals the
multi-layered structure of discourses, which emerge from different
opportunity structures of public discussion and may overlap with
regard to certain topics. These differences reflect, thirdly, the
various directions and types of change a discourse hints at -
incremental change, radical change, 'customized' change, patterned
change etc. These issues are analyzed in the case of two
authoritarian states (China, Vietnam), a multi-ethnic, formally
democratic state with strong authoritarian leanings (Malaysia), and
two democratic states with significant parochial structures and
patterns of behaviour (South Korea, Japan).
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