Democratisation, Governance and Regionalism in East and Southeast Asia: A Comparative Study Ian Marsh (ed.) (London and New York: Routledge, 2006)

This is another volume in a burgeoning series in the Routledge/Warwick Studies in Globalisation. It contains a collection of eight essays whose primary focus is to enquire comparatively into the institutions of democratisation and governance of seven countries in East and Southeast Asia (Taiwan, Korea, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines).

The essays accumulatively include an assessment of political culture, political elites, bureaucracies and the impact of regionalism within the seven states. Some ...