Transparency and Authoritarian Rule in Southeast Asia

Garry Rodan is Director of the Asia Research Centre, Murdoch University, Australia.

• 1. Information Control and Authoritarian Rule in East and Southeast Asia: Under Challenge? 2. Bedding Down Media and Information Control in Singapore and Malaysia 3. Bureaucratic Authoritarianism and Transparency Reform in Singapore 4. Keeping Civil Society at Bay: Media in Singapore After the Crisis 5. Crony Capitalism and Transparency Reform in Malaysia 6. Challenges to Media Control in Malaysia Conclusion: Advanced Market Systems, Information Flows and Political Regimes

'Readers committed to press freedom, justice and democracy will find Rodan's analysis compelling.'Mustafa K. Anuar, Aliran Monthly, Vol. 24 (6).'Rodan has written an enlightening, challenging and provocative book in which he questions the assertion that greater financial and economic transparency leads to a more open society.' - Far Eastern Economic Review