This new collection of essays compares the development of
central institutions of governance in the emerging democracies of
East and South East Asia.
Seven key countries are covered: Taiwan, Korea, Thailand,
Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines. Save for
Singapore and Malaysia, all have democratized over the past decade.
Because of its constitutive implications for citizen identities,
democratization is arguably of even greater potential significance
than the economic take-off that preceded it.
But there are distinctive features that give the experience of
these seven states especial relevance. First, unlike analogous
western patterns, democratic transitions in Asia have been top-down
in character. Second, the implementation of basic democratic forms
was highly compressed in time. Third there were (and are), in most
countries, no major ideological or programmatic cleavages. Thus the
bases around which contending political forces might organize are
not immediately clear. This may affect the outlook for partisanship
and mobilization. There has been no synoptic, comparative study of
these developments on a region-wide scale. This book fills the gap
extremely well.
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