Political Participation in Asia

<p>A combination of economic transformation political transitions and changes in media have substantially if incrementally altered the terrain for political participation globally particularly in Asia home to several of the most dramatic such shifts over the past two decades.</p><p></p><p>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. Organized thematically in three parts – political participation in a ‘post-democratic’ context changes in the scope and character of political space and the policing of that space – this book analyzes economic regime and media shifts and how they function in tandem and both within and across states.</p><p></p><p>Closely integrated comparative and theoretically driven this book will be of interest to scholars and practitioners in the fields of civil society contentious politics or social movements democratization political economy/development media and communications political geography sociology comparative politics and Asian politics.</p>