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Book SynopsisThis book brings together scholars based in, or had previously been based in a range of East and Southeast Asian countries, building on their respective primary empirical data and first-hand experience as academics and think tank researchers, in order to pluralise the current debates about governance in transitional societies. In an era of global democratic backsliding, this edited volume offers less-explored local perspectives, to balance the Western-centrism observed in area studies and the focus on former Soviet countries in transit. What is the future of governance in Asia? This book, by attempting to supply a diversity of answers, will interest political scientists, economists, and journalists.
Table of ContentsChapter 1: Navigating transitions: governance in East and Southeast Asia.- Chapter 2: The formation of civil society through a mode of governmentality in post-reform Vietnam.- Chapter 3: Labour-Market Flexibility and Digitalization: Challenges to Work Intensification, Employment Relations, and Trade Unions in Indonesia.- Chapter 4: Civil Society and Regional Connectivity: Governing the Transforming Connectivity at Thai-Laos Border.- Chapter 5: New Economic Policy: Impact of social and economic engineering on Malaysia’s development.- Chapter 6: Housing affordability in Hong Kong and its socio-political implications.- Chapter 7: How a New, Small and Poor Country Withstands Global Challenges: A Case of Timor-Leste.
