These diverse perspectives, however, have been held together by the overall themes indicated in its subtitle-the challenges to democratization and development. The different chapters are clustered into sections which include the societal context of Philippine government and politics, principal government institutions (the presidency, legislature, judiciary, bureaucracy, military, and local gove…
Buku ini merupakan hasil penelusuran jurnalistik selama 10 tahun, sekaligus analisis kritis yang komprehensif mengenai setiap peristiwa yang berlangsung selama ini. Didalamnya ada sejarah heroic dan menegangkan selama berlangsungnya reformasi yang mengalir bersama krisis ekonomi. Upaya-upaya mengatasinya dari satu cabinet ke cabinet lalin, baik yang membawa hasil positif maupun yang blunder dan…
In the context of sustainable development, this book describes how we are moving from representative to participatory democracy, and how we are now in a "stakeholder democracy," which is working to strengthen represented democracy in a time of fear. Since the 1992 Rio Earth Summit the idea of stakeholder democracy has grown, with stakeholders engaged in helping governments and intergovernmental…
Indonesia the nation-state is a miraculous and unlikely construction. At first sight, the material for national unity could not be more unpromising, Indonesia
The aim of this book is to give an overview of the difficult, multilayered and often contradictory results of the democratization process. How has Indonesia's transition proceeded and what is the quality of Indonesia's nasscent democracy? In order to discuss these question in detail, this book's focus is on regime change in Indonesia. This chapter, therefore, begins with a discussion of various…