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Civil Society in Southeast Asia
Author: Garry Rodan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-10-20
Total Pages: 157
ISBN-13: 1108619886
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Contrary to popular claims, civil society is not generally shrinking in Southeast Asia. It is transforming, resulting in important shifts in the influences that can be exerted through it. Political and ideological differences in Southeast Asia have sharpened as anti-democratic and anti-liberal social forces compete with democratic and liberal elements in civil society. These are neither contests between civil and uncivil society nor a tussle between civil society and state power. They are power struggles over relationships between civil society and the state. Explaining these struggles, the approach in this Element emphasises the historical and political economy foundations shaping conflicts, interests and coalitions that mobilise through civil society. Different ways that capitalism is organised, controlled, and developed are shown to matter for when, how and in what direction conflicts in civil society emerge and coalitions form. This argument is demonstrated through comparisons of Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Thailand.
Civil Society
Author: Gillian Koh
Publisher:
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 107
ISBN-13: 9789814747219
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Civil Society and the State in Singapore
Author: Carol Soon
Publisher: Wspc (Europe)
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781786342461
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Set within the context of rising political pluralism among the citizenry, bold ground-up conflict between the governing and the governed, and increasing adoption of the Internet and new media, the Institute of Policy Studies organised a Civil Society Conference on 11 November 2013. This collection provides a nuanced analysis of Singapore civil society's development over more than a decade and combines insights from experts from different domains, and sets out an agenda for the further development.The first section discusses the different approaches and philosophies that underpin civil society — engagement, collaboration, and ideological tensions. The second section examines change agents — technology, people, and politics — and their impact on civil society. The third section explores the future of civil society, in the areas of the non-profit sector, civic education, youth activism, legislation, and finally, ethnicity. The book provides the state-of-play in the civil society landscape and this should be of interest to watchers of political development in a soft authoritarian polity making its transition towards greater democratisation.
The Politics of Nation Building and Citizenship in Singapore
Author: Michael Hill
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-06-17
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 1134856008
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Since independence in 1965 Singapore has strengthened its own national identity through a conscious process of nation-building and promoting the active role of the citizen within society. Singapore is a state that has firmly rejected welfarism but whose political leaders have maintained that collective values, instead of those of autonomous individuals, are essential to its very survival. The book begins by examining basic concepts of citizenship, nationality and the state in the context of Singapore's arrival at independence. The theme of nation-building is explored and how the creation of a national identity, through building new institutions, has been a central feature of political and social life in Singapore. Of great importance has been education, and a system of multilingual education that is part of a broader government strategy of multiculturalism and multiracialism; both have served the purpose of building a new national identity. Other areas covered by the authors include family planning, housing policy, the creation of parapolitical structures and the imporatnce of shared `Asian values' amongst Singapore's citizens.
State-society Relations in Singapore
Author: Gillian Koh
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book is a collection of essays first presented by leaders from the state, market, and civic sectors at a national dialogue on civil society in Singapore, organized by the Institute of Policy Studies, in May 1998. It is set in the context of current thinking on development and governance, where there has been a paradigm shift from viewing state and civil society as a zero-sum, adversarial relationship to viewing it as having the potential for synergies. It records an initial response to this new notion across the sectors represented. In effect, it also reflects the current condition of state-society relations some years since the People's Action Party government indicated it welcomed a greater role for civil society.
Singapore Politics Under the People's Action Party
Author: Diane K. Mauzy
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 0415246520
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The party has coped successfully with the needs of a multiethnic population, claims for more extensive human rights, the nascent development of a civil society, and the problems of defending a small country in a turbulent region.".
Democracy and Civil Society
Civilising Singapore
