By providing various fascinating first-hand accounts of how citizens negotiate their rights in
the context of weak state institutions, Citizenship and Democratization in Southeast Asia …

3 Introduction democratic citizenship takes in postcolonial states. As citizenship is generally
studied in the context of a liberal, high-capacity welfare state, there has been relatively little …

Theories of citizenship from the West–pre-eminently those by TH Marshall–provide only a
limited insight into East Asian political history. The Marshallian trajectory–juridical, political …

This introduction discusses the articles in this Special Issue, which are all focused on
exploring the everyday interactions between marginalised individuals and groups and the …

In the past scholarship of the West, East Asian societies were often subjected to Orientalist
appraisals that described them as 'static, despotic, and reclusive'entities. From the 1980s …

No other region in the world seems to have entered modernity in a more diverse way than
East Asia. 2 The region gave birth to an aggressive capitalist imperial state (ie Japan) …

Southeast Asia has been undergoing a transition to more democratic forms of governance
over the last two decades. The 2007 Charter of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations …

Globalization has not entailed the" eclipse" of the nation-state. While state sovereignty has
been eroded, international society still remains organized as a network or" club" of nation …

Exploring the remarkable political and economic changes sweeping Southeast Asia, the
authors take as their starting point the trend, albeit uneven, toward democratization. They …

America in the 1970s and 1980s–and with the prevalence of struggles for rights and
community mobilisation broadly in the then-advanced capitalist democracies (Walzer 1990; …