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Author: Rodolfo C Severino
Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9812304991
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines contradictory economic and political trends occurring in the Philippines in order to gain a sense of the country's prospects.
Author: Lorraine Carlos Salazar
Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 434
ISBN-13: 9812303820
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnalyses the telecom reform process in Malaysia and the Philippines. Looks at the institutions and actors that were the driving force behind these changes, and examines state capacity, market reform, and rent-seeking in the two countries.
Author: Aurel Croissant
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2017-12-26
Total Pages: 453
ISBN-13: 3319681826
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the political systems of all ASEAN countries and Timor-Leste from a comparative perspective. It investigates the political institutions, actors and processes in eleven states, covering democracies as well as autocratic regimes. Each country study includes an analysis of the current system of governance, the party and electoral system, and an assessment of the state, its legal system and administrative bodies. Students of political science and regional studies will also learn about processes of democratic transition and autocratic persistence, as well as how civil society and the media influence the political culture in each country.
Author: Ishtiaq Ahmed
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2011-05-04
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 1136727035
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe notion of a ‘politics of religion’ refers to the increasing role that religion plays in the politics of the contemporary world. This book presents comparative country case studies on the politics of religion in South and South Asia, including India, Pakistan and Indonesia. The politics of religion calls into question the relevance of modernist notions of secularism and democracy, with the emphasis instead on going back to indigenous roots in search of authentic ideologies and models of state and nation building. Within the context of the individual countries, chapters focus on the consequences that politics of religion has on inclusive nation-building, democracy and the rights of individuals, minorities and women. The book makes a contribution to both the theoretical and conceptual literature on the politics of religion as well as shed light on the implications and ramifications of the politics of religion on contemporary South Asian and South East Asian countries. It is of interest to students and scholars of South and South East Asian Studies, as well as Comparative Politics.
Author: Kumar Aryal
Publisher: Kumar Aryal
Published: 2019-06-06
Total Pages: 167
ISBN-13: 1072438631
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAre you concerned about the problem of poverty in the world? Do you want to do something about it? This book is for you!
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Marcus Mietzner
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-11-12
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 1136682228
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the late 1990s, prominent scholars of civil-military relations detected a decline in the political significance of the armed forces across Southeast Asia. A decade later, however, this trend seems to have been reversed. The Thai military launched a coup in 2006, the Philippine armed forces expanded their political privileges under the Arroyo presidency, and the Burmese junta successfully engineered pseudo-democratic elections in 2010. This book discusses the political resurgence of the military in Southeast Asia throughout the 2000s. Written by distinguished experts on military affairs, the individual chapters explore developments in Burma, Thailand, the Philippines, Vietnam, East Timor, Indonesia and Singapore. They not only assess, but also offer explanations for the level of military involvement in politics in each country. Consequently, the book also makes a significant contribution to the comparative debate about militaries in politics. Whilst conditions obviously differ from country to country, most authors in this book conclude that the shape of civil-military relations is not predetermined by historic, economic or cultural factors, but is often the result of intra-civilian conflicts and divisive or ineffective political leadership.
Author: Ranilo Balaguer Hermida
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 2014-11-19
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 1438453876
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines democracy in the Philippines using the political thought of Jürgen Habermas. This book is a pioneering study of Philippine democracy, one of the oldest in the Asian region, vis-à-vis Habermasian critical theory. Proceeding from a concise examination of the theory of law and democracy found in Habermass Between Facts and Norms, Ranilo Balaguer Hermida explains how the law occupies the central role in both the legitimation of political power and the attainment of social integration. He then discusses how Habermas proposes to resolve the tension that exists in modern society between democratic norms and social facts, through the adoption of a lawmaking procedure whereby the informal sources of issues and opinions from the public sphere are allowed to develop and interact with the formal deliberations and decision processes inside the political system. He also explores certain provisions of the present Philippine Constitution that were expressly intended to restore democratic institutions and processes destroyed by decades of martial law, as well as the problems and hindrances that stand in the way of their full implementation. Imagining Modern Democracy presents a clear and convincing application of philosophical theory to practical politics. Hermida, using Habermass theoretical reflections on law and democracy, provides a basis for understanding democratic practice in the Philippines. The book is essential reading for those interested in both Habermass work and its implications for emerging constitutional democracies. David M. Rasmussen, Editor-in-Chief, Philosophy and Social Criticism
Author: Glenda Tibe Bonifacio
Publisher: UBC Press
Published: 2013-11-15
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 0774825812
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor many Filipinos, one word � kumusta, how are you � is all it takes to forge a connection with a stranger anywhere in the world. In Canada's prairie provinces, this connection has inspired community building and created both national and transnational identities for the women who identify as pinay. This book is the first to look beyond traditional metropolitan hubs of settlement to explore the migration of Filipino women in Alberta, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan. Based on interviews with first-generation immigrant Filipino women and temporary foreign workers, Pinay on the Prairies is a revealing study of identity and community in Canada and an exploration of feminism, transnational identities, migration, and diaspora in a global era.
Author: Liang Fook Lye
Publisher: World Scientific
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9814327956
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSome fledging democracies in the world have encountered setbacks due to political parties trying to grapple with the expectations of sophisticated electorates and introducing gradual political reforms over the years. This book describes how democracy is evolving in East Asia and how it assumes different forms in different countries, with political parties adapting and evolving alongside. It has a two-fold intent. First, it contends that the existing variety of party systems in East Asia will endure and may even flourish, rather than converge as liberal democracies. Second, it highlights the seeming political durability of one party systems OCo unlike two-part or multi-party systems in the US and Europe OCo and their enduring predominance in countries such as Cambodia, China, Singapore and Vietnam.
