Stephen McCarthy is Senior Lecturer in Southeast Asian politics in the School of Government and International Relations and a member of the Griffith Asia Institute at Griffith University, Australia. His current research interests include the rule of law in Southeast Asia and the political economy of environmental governance in the Asia-Pacific.

Mark R. Thompson is Head and Professor in the Department of Asian and International Studies, and Director of the Southeast Asia Research Centre at the City University of Hong Kong as well as President of the Hong Kong Political Science Association. His most recent publication is Authoritarian Modernism in East Asia.

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This book explores the theoretical and empirical relationship between democracy and governance in the Asia-Pacific region. Examining a variety of country cases and themes addressing the theoretical tension between governance and democracy, it illuminates how this impacts political and civil societies across the region.

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Making Sense of Democracy and Governance in the Asia-Pacific 2. Democracy and Governance: A Conceptual Analysis of a Contested Relation 3. Singapore: Challenges of 'Good Governance' Without Liberal Democracy 4. The Good versus the Many: 'Good Governance' and Democracy in Thailand and the Philippines 5. Electoral Governance: Models of Democracy in Asia and the Pacific 6. Can Solomon Islands Escape its Clientelist Trap? 7. Law and Judicial Reform Challenges in Contemporary Cambodia 8. Governance and the Rule of Law: Reflections on Tensions in Thailand 9. Militarized Civil Society and Governance in the Asia Pacific: Burma (Myanmar) and Fiji 10. Think Tanks and the Governance of Political Transformation in China 11. Governance and Christianity in the PRC