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STEPHEN MCCARTHY<\/a> | <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The recently published book Governance and Democracy in the Asia-Pacific: Political and Civil Society<\/em><\/a>, explores the theoretical and empirical relationship between democracy and governance in the Asia-Pacific region. The book addresses a major theoretical problem and a gap in the academic and policy-related literature on governance and democracy in the Asia-Pacific region. Multilateral institutions, international NGOs, and many in the academic community have operated with some doubtful assumptions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first is that all good things go together: hence\nif one is able to promote good governance, one is simultaneously able to\npromote both democracy and development and vice-versa. Another is that civil\nsociety plays a key role in bringing about this change for good. Civil society\nis typically viewed as a major force in the fight against corruption, the\npromotion of good governance, and the consolidation of democratic regimes. Good\ngovernance is also promoted by reforms that aim to strengthen political society\nin ways that are said to improve the quality of democracy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Governance and Democracy in the Asia-Pacific: Political and Civil Society<\/em>, edited by Stephen McCarthy and Mark R. Thompson <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The book questions\nthese assumptions in a thematic way that addresses the theoretical tension\nbetween governance and democracy and discovers how this tension is played out\nin political and civil societies in the Asia Pacific region. Specifically, it\nexamines the character, structure, and current trajectories of polities in the\nAsia-Pacific, democratic or otherwise, to demonstrate that the role of civil\nand political society has been quite different from what has commonly been\nassumed within the international community and by many academics. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Governance has become a buzzword of political and economic development in recent years. Yet definitions of governance vary considerably across different fields of research and there is no commonly accepted academic or policy-wide definition. At the same time, the way that political scientists understand democracy has changed significantly since the end of the Cold War. That the relationship between good governance and democracy is disputed can be traced to their conceptualisation and operationalisation. There is considerable variation in the extent to which the understanding of good governance overlaps with democracy. Further, the indicators of good governance\u2014and the commonly used empirical measures and data sources used for each\u2014are often inappropriate, they overlap, or they are imprecise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Relations between\ndemocracy and governance produce a range of patterns in the Asia-Pacific that\nrequire some explanation. In some settings, civil and political society has\nacted as a democratising force but has so far failed to promote good governance\n(Indonesia, Philippines and Thailand). In other settings\u2014especially in\nsocieties influenced by Confucian values\u2014good governance has been encouraged in\nthe absence of democratic change (Singapore, China, and perhaps Malaysia). In\ncases where political society has been monopolised by militaries, civil society\nhas struggled to promote democracy, while governance nevertheless has been\nredefined and promoted (Burma and Fiji); and in a fourth group of countries\n(Japan, South Korea and Taiwan) civil and political society has indeed promoted\nboth democracy and good governance but only after prolonged periods of\ndevelopment mostly under military or non-democratic rule. Other countries, of\ncourse, may display a combination of some of the attributes above, although\nparticular circumstances may not allow them to easily fit into these\ncategories. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Asia-Pacific\nregion, historical legacies and social structures dispose civil and political\nsociety to interact in different ways, producing outcomes that may be\nreinforced by institutions that then hold implications for democracy and\ngovernance. These outcomes are derived from conditions that are delicately\nintertwined and are influenced by, and have influence upon, colonial legacies,\nreligion, ethnic pluralism, the role of the military, the monarchy,\nbureaucratic capacities, constitutions, party systems, elections,\nexecutive-legislative relations, and the judiciaries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Liberal democracy\nand effective governance often do not seem to go well together in the Asia-\nPacific, and large gaps may appear between the two and become destabilising.\nGood or effective governance is largely a matter of measuring performance\noutcomes, while democratic governance is a matter of measuring participant\ninputs. If people in Asia-Pacific societies have their own criteria for what\nconstitutes political legitimacy in their regime, then government effectiveness\nbecomes the major driver of what they understand to be \u2018good governance\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In fact, support\nfor democratic regimes in the region fluctuates widely in response to changing\nperceptions of these regimes\u2019 performance, levels of corruption, and the\ntrustworthiness of their politicians. Citizens in East Asian democracies want\nnot just democracy as such, but more accountability, more responsiveness, more\ntransparency, and less corruption. Democratic consolidation only seems possible\nafter substantial improvements in people\u2019s material lives and advances in\neconomic development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The book examines this complex network of underlying conditions and the relations between various political institutions, enabling an exploration into the nature of civil      
civil and political society in the region. It includes theoretical and empirical chapters on democracy and governance in the Asia-Pacific, as well as contributions focusing on political and civil society in a number of countries where the tensions between democracy and governance are particularly strained. These include Singapore, Thailand, the Philippines, Cambodia, Myanmar, China, and a number of Pacific Island states. The evidence produced in each chapter highlights the tension between governance and democracy and suggests that for various reasons the Asia-Pacific region struggles to meet the demands of governance-based policies derived from misguided assumptions. Governance and Democracy in the Asia-Pacific: Political and Civil Society<\/em>, edited by Stephen McCarthy and Mark R. Thompson is available to read and purchase here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AUTHOR <\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen McCarthy<\/em><\/strong>, School of Government and International Relations and member of the Griffith Asia Institute<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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