Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: chua beng huat

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  • THE INTER-ASIA CULTURAL STUDIES READER
    KUAN-HSING CHEN / BENG HUAT CHUA
    Asian Cultural Studies or Cultural Studies in Asia is a new and burgeoning field, and the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Journal is at its cutting edge. Committed to bringing Asian Cultural Studies scholarship to the international English speaking world and constantly challenging existing conceptions of cultural studies, the journal has emerged as the leading publication in Cultur...

    $1,360.00

  • ELECTIONS AS POPULAR CULTURE IN ASIA
    CHUA, BENG HUAT
    Conventional political science depicts legitimate elections as rational affairs in which informed voters select candidates for office according to how their coherently presented aims, ideologies and policies appeal to the self-interest of the electorate. In reality elections, whether in first world democracies, or in the various governmental systems present in Asia, can more re...

    $1,320.00

  • COMMUNITARIAN POLITICS IN ASIA
    BENG HUAT CHUA
    With the collapse of European socialism in the late 1980s, ascendancy of the liberal capitalist democracy and individual self-interest became prevalent in the West. In contrast, many polities in Asia, both by tradition and choice, have explicitly adopted communitarianism as a national ideology, for example Confucianism in Korea, Hong Kong and Japan, Islam in Malaysia and the Pa...

    $580.00

  • POLITICAL LEGITIMACY AND HOUSING
    BENG-HUAT CHUA
    Singapore's successful public housing programme is a source of political legitimacy for the ruling People's Action Party. Beng-Huat Chua accounts for the success of public housing in Singapore and draws out lessons for other nations. Housing in Singapore, he explains in this incisive analysis, is seen neither as a consumer good (as in the US) nor as a social right (as in the so...

    $1,240.00

  • COMMUNITARIAN IDEOLOGY AND DEMOCRACY IN SINGAPORE
    BENG-HUAT CHUA
    The economic success of Singapore has established the country as a model for other nations. Yet until now the ideas behind this accomplishment have not been critically examined. Communitarian Ideology and Democracy in Singapore fills this gap. The book outlines the policies the ruling party has adopted over the past three decades. It charts the government's move away from Weste...

    $1,460.00