...Elizabeth Fuller Collins Authoritarian Populism in Malaysia . By Anne Munro-Kua . New York : St. Martin's Press , 1996 . xix, 199 pp. $59–95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998 1998 286 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES world. In addition to electricity...

... was limited and poorly delivered. The episode showed the lack of responsiveness of Indian democracy to the needs of working people and the failures of development. Yet Modi's particular brand of authoritarian populism worked so well that a government displaying very little compassion retained strong popular...

...Phillip P. Marzluf Abstract In the twentieth century, authoritarian states throughout Asia mobilized mass populations to adopt modern subjectivities and national identities. Literacy campaigns and the development of formal education systems were key strategies in shaping these subjectivities...

... with dire warnings about troublemakers, delays, and the government stepping in and straightening things out. R O B E R T L. W I N Z E L E R University of Nevada, Reno Authoritarian Populism in Malaysia. By ANNE M U N R O - K U A . New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996. xix, 199 pp. $59-95. In an explicitly...

... in this respect. Let us hope that the work is not jeopardized by new problems in international and national labor markets. BERTIL EGERO University of Lund SOUTHEAST ASIA Democracy and Authoritarianism in Indonesia and Malaysia: The Rise of the PostColonial State. By SYED FARID ALATAS. New York: St. Martin's Press...

... : University of British Columbia Press . Kua Ann Munro . 1996 . Authoritarian Populism in Malaysia . New York : Macmillan . Liow Joseph Chinyong . 2004a . “ Exigency or Expediency? Contextualising Political Islam and the PAS Challenge in Malaysian Politics .” Third World Quarterly 25 ( 2...

... and Taiwan. While this evaluation helps us situate China within a spectrum of authoritarian and democratic regimes at the same time as it notes China's changed relationship to capital, it is necessarily more limited in locating these Chinese developments within more local contexts in which the agency...

... are increasing the “human flow” of migrants, especially into Asia's megacities. Climate change reacts with other trends: the increased inequalities willed by a generation of neoliberal policies, the authoritarian turn in politics, and the return of geopolitical tensions resulting from China's spectacular rise...

... discussion of democracy and development, but most of the standard treatments stay at the level of simplistic clichés and high-minded platitudes. My goal here is to go beyond this, highlighting some of the complexities in the functioning of democracy in India and authoritarianism in China, and asking what...

..., Denmark, has sought to resolve the ideological battle about the relative advantages and liabilities of democratic versus authoritarian political regimes for advancing economic development by a combination of theoretical analysis and four case studies: India and Costa Rica as democracies, and China...

... of multi-party democracy in the 1990s, followed by electoral authoritarianism, and Mongolia, a country that was propelled into successful and lasting democratic change by the collapse of its Soviet ally. In South Asia, the democracy map today looks much like it did three decades ago, with India having...

... that a salient characteristic of Korean culture, dominated by Confucian precepts handed down to its bureaucracy, is authoritarianism and its corollary, centralization; they provide, however, differing interpretations as to how Korean bureaucracy has been affected by authoritarianism and its attendant...

...Peter Zarrow Cong minquan dao weiquan: Sun Zhongshan de xunzheng sixiang yu zhuanzhe bing lun dangren jizhi shushi . [From democracy to authoritarianism: The theory and practice of tutelage in Sun Yat-sen and his followers] . By Peng-yuan Chang [ Zhang...

... agreed, sided with this alliance and opened a new era of democratic governance. The road to democracy, prophetically described by Benedict Anderson in 1977 as a collective withdrawal from authoritarian tendencies, had been long, bloody, and tormented. 5 The patient, it seemed, made it through...

...Kathleen Nadeau Revolutionary Spirituality: A Study of the Protestant Role in the American Colonial Rule of the Philippines, 1898–1928 . By Mariano C. Apilado . Quezon City, Philippines : New Day Publishers , 1999 . 333 pp. $62.50 (paper). Protestantism and Authoritarian Politics...

... that all authoritarian reform is doomed, wherever it occurs. I am suggesting that in a polity of China's scale, doubly plagued by a population-resource ratio that can at best be described as ungenerous and a bureaucratism that combines the worst features of the pre-1949 past and socialist systems generally...

... authoritarian, state-centered politics in Suide. Similarly, Yanshu's abundant land and low population also encouraged peasants to engage in cooperative practices with less BOOK REVIEWS CHINA 1129 government intervention and supervision of the process than needed in Suide's rather different environment. From...

... proportion of Japan's working population, prevented the Socialist parties from effectively appealing to the more numerous classes of small farmers and shopkeepers. Second, he could have shown that Socialist politicians like Aso Hisashi were more resistant to authoritarianism and imperialism than Sodomei's...

... York : Columbia University Press . Ayesha. Jalal 1995 . Democracy and Authoritarianism in South Asia , Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . Mary. Katzenstein 1979 . Ethnicity and Equality , Ithaca, N.Y. : xypCornell University Press. Atul. Kohli 1991 . Democracy...

... a framework of national unity and strength"; that democracy developed in the Western world among nations which had been unified by a period of firm authoritarian rule; and that "the premature exercise of an overabundant democracy, laying its stress on the rights of the opposition, can destroy the foundations...