This is an extensively revised and updated version of a book that was originally published in
2007. In addition to bringing the text up to date in a rapidly changing region, there are …

Over the past quarter century new ideologies of participation and representation have
proliferated across democratic and non-democratic regimes. In Participation without …

Untitled Page 1 Page 2 Critical Studies of the Asia Pacific Series Series Editor: Mark Beeson,
Winthrop Professor of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Western …

International peace-and state-building interventions have become ubiquitous in
international politics since the 1990s, aiming to tackle the security problems stemming from …

Adopting a distinctive structural political economy approach, this book uniquely explains the
blind spots of alternative political economy approaches to international aid, and presents an …

Put simply, accountability is about saying what you do and doing what you say. This paper
explores the concept of social accountability (SA), which we understand here as any citizen …

This article explores the emergence of new spaces for civil society organisations (CSOs) as
a result of an increasing interest by international donors in multi-stakeholder approaches to …

Entrepreneurial brokers play a major role in governance networks in a disaster response
setting. By identifying patterns of interactions between members in a network of embedded …

This book is concerned with how the pursuit of national economic competitiveness by states
has come to be intertwined with a globalised gender agenda—one in which women and the …

Examines how public officials in the US, China, Japan, and Indonesia have interacted with
communities affected by natural disasters. Survival in times of disaster is a question of …