Industrialization has meant sweeping social transformations across
Asia. Some political commentators have predicted that the expansion
of civil society and the rapid development of liberal democracy
will necessarily follow. The contributors to this volume dissect
the extent of political opposition in Asia and analyze the nature
of new social movements outside institutional party politics which
are contesting the exercise of state power.
Nine original case studies explore the variety of political
oppositions across Asia, from non-governmental organizations and
the formal opponents of the PAP in Singapore to Chinese dissidents
based outside the People's Republic of China. All take up the
challenge of looking at political opposition in the light of the
new social phenomenon of the rising middle class or "new rich" of
Asia. Garry Rodan's hard-hitting analysis of the problems of
current political theorizing in relation to Asia sets the case
studies firmly in the midst of wider debates about democratization.
"Political Oppositions in Industrialising Asia" shatters complacent
assumptions about the progress of liberal democracy.
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