• Provides an excellent overview of globilization and local governance in Southeast Asia.

• Gives a broad and insightful overview of democratization in the region.

• Offers a great deal of empirical analysis of local democratization in Southeast Asia that will prove to be very useful to scholars.

This volume sets out to analyse changes in governance processes in Southeast Asia, particularly those relating to democratic development. The volume harbours an ambition to go beyond the often one-dimensional debate on democratization in Asia. With an historical perspective, and with an explicit attempt to view change from within, ten case studies from Southeast Asia are presented that illuminate how processes of governance are being altered under the pressure of accelerating globalization. These are accompanied by a review of how globalization has historically entered the debate on democratization in Southeast Asia, and an analytical conclusion which assesses the findings of the case studies in relation to recent writings on societal change in the region.

Contents
Introduction (Francis Loh Kok Wah and Joakim Öjendal)
Globalization, National Governance and Local Responses in Southeast Asia (Francis Loh Kok Wah)
Liberalization without Democratization – The Case of Singapore (Chua Beng Huat)
Globalization, Capital Grounds and ‘Reformasi’: Crises and Contestations over Governance (Khoo Boo Teik)
Democracy and the Mainstreaming of Localism in Thailand (Michael Kelly Connors)
Democracy among the Grassroots: Local Responses to Democratic Reforms in Vietnam (Bent Jørgensen)
Global Civil Society in One Country? Class Formation and Business Activism in the Philippines (Eva-Lotta E. Hedman)
The Fall of Suharto – Understanding the Politics of the Global (Dewi Fortuna Anwar)
Decentralization as a Political Commodity – Changing State–Civil Society Relations in Cambodia? (Joakim Öjendal)
Human Rights in Malaysia: Globalization, National Governance and Local Responses (Saliha Hassan and Carolina Lopez)
The Making of Democratic Local Governance in Indonesia (Hans Antlöv)
Globalization and Inequitable Development in Sarawak (Andrew Aeria)
Globalization – What It Might Mean for Democratic Governance in Southeast Asia (Joakim Öjendal)
Index