Political Participation in Asia
Subtitle: Defining and Deploying Political Space
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9781138082298
Subjects: Political participation; Democracy; Authoritarianism; Asia, politics and government
Description: "This book explores political participation in Asia and how democracy and authoritarianism function under neoliberal economic relations. It examines changes that coincide seemingly perversely with a participation explosion: with mass street protests and "occupations," energetic online contention, movements of students and workers, mobilization for and against democracy, and more. Organised thematically in three parts--political participation in a "postdemocratic" context, changes in the scope and character of political space, and the policing of that space--this book analyses economic, regime and media shifts and how they function in tandem and across not just states, but sub-regions"--