Full Description
Elite Capture in Asia, drawing on experiences of eight Asian countries, explores the functioning of power in practice to demonstrate how public policy across South and Southeast Asia is influenced, directed, and often subverted by elites whose interests diverge from the broader public good. The book also makes efforts to venture beyond the state of elite capture to explore instances of resistance, reform, and potential for addressing the problem. Researchers in political economy, public policy, and development, policymakers and practitioners, students and engaged citizens can benefit from the empirical studies used in the book. This volume does not offer a single model or universal solution. Instead, it advances a shared analytical lens for understanding the extent of the challenge of policy capture and its consequences. The book aims to contribute to ongoing debates about governance in South and Southeast Asia.
Contents
Chapter 1 : Elite capture in Asia: Strategies and trends.- Chapter 2 : Political elites and the capture of the bureaucracy in Bangladesh .- Chapter 3 : Public administration and development in Bangladesh: Emergence of a collusive political settlement model.- Chapter 4 : Extracting the state: Caste networks, crony capitalism, and the legal architecture of elite capture in India.- Chapter 5 : Elite capture and captive minds: Exploring coloniality in Pakistani public policy.- Chapter 6 : Elite capture of public policy, institutional decay, and the quality of government: Evidence from Sri Lanka.- Chapter 7 : Elite capture and the limits of resistance: Indonesia's omnibus law struggle.- Chapter 8 : Elite capture in Malaysia's developmental state: SOEs, privatization, and crony capitalism.- Chapter 9 : Administering through corporations: The Pakatan Penang experience.- Chapter 10 : Elite capture of policymaking and the party-state nexus in the Philippines: The hegemony of politico-economic elites and technocrats.- Chapter 11
Pseudo reform and mass poverty in the Philippines: A brief history of elite deflection.- Chapter 12 : Capturing the policy domain: The influence of political elites on Thai elections.- Chapter 13 : The elite capture of decentralized local governance: A barrier to inclusive people's participation in Thailand.- Chapter 14 : Elites, governance and public policy in Asia: Consequences, lessons and way forward.
