Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Democracy Is Coming

Chapter 3 The Noisy Right and the Not-So-Silent Moderates: Democracy and All That in Malaysia

Chapter 4 Singapore’s Social Contract Trilemma

Chapter 5 The Afterglow of Hun Sen’s Cambodia? Socioeconomic Development, Political Change, and the Persistence of Inequalities

Chapter 6 Democracy and Middle Classes in Laos

Chapter 7 Democratization in Vietnam’s Post- Đổi Mới One-Party Rule: Change from Within, Change from the Bottom to the Top, and Possibilities

Chapter 8 Emerging Democracy and Ethnic Identity Crisis in Myanmar

Chapter 9 Prosperity and Inequality in Metro Manila: Reflections on Housing the Poor, Climate Risk, and Governance of Cities

Chapter 10 The Triangular Relations of Society–State–Market: Social Problems in Indonesian Society in the Context of Globalization

Chapter 11 Thailand’s Political Crisis: The Perplexities of Democracy and Society

Chapter 12 Can Deliberative Democracy Be an Alternative for the Twenty-First Century? A Case Study of Thailand

Chapter 14 Conclusions: Globalization, Democracy and Challenges