Transparency and Authoritarian Rule in Southeast Asia

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Transparency and Authoritarian Rule in Southeast Asia

Singapore and Malaysia

Media studies: journalism Political control and freedoms

Author: Garry Rodan

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Collection: Routledge/City University of Hong Kong Southeast Asia Series

Language: English

Published by: Routledge

Published on: 2nd August 2004

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 688 Kb

ISBN: 9781134308101


Transparency and Authoritarian Rule in Southeast Asia

Rodan rejects the notion that the 1997-98 Asian economic crisis was further evidence that ultimately capitalism can only develop within liberal social and political institutions, and that new technology necessarily undermines authoritarian control. Instead, Rodan argues that in Singapore and Malaysia external pressures for transparency reform were, and are, in many respects, being met without serious compromise to authoritarian rule or the sanctioning of media freedom.

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