Table of Contents

1: Contrasting ideological rationales for accountability
2: Accountability coalitions in the Southeast Asian context
3: Political crisis and human rights accountability in Singapore and Malaysia
4: Decentralization and accountability in post-socialist Cambodia and Vietnam
5: Social accountability in the Philippines and Cambodia
6: State-based anticorruption agencies in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Thailand
Conclusion

About the Author

Garry Rodan is Professor of Politics and International Studies at the Asia Research Centre, School of Management and Governance, Murdoch University, Australia. He is also a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. He is the author of Transparency and Authoritarian Rule in Southeast Asia (RoutledgeCurzon 2004) and The Political Economy of Singapore's Industrialization (Macmillan, 1989). His edited and co-edited books include
Neoliberalism and Conflict in Asia After 9/11 (Routledge 2005), The Political Economy of Southeast Asia (OUP, 1997, 2001, 2006), Political Oppositions in Industrializing Asia (Routledge 1996), Singapore Changes Guard (Longman
1993) and Southeast Asia in the 1990s: Authoritarianism, Capitalism and Democracy (Allen & Unwin 1993). Caroline Hughes is Professor Conflict Resolution and Peace in the Department of Peace Studies at the University of Bradford in the UK. She was previously Director of the Asia Research Centre at Murdoch University in Australia. Her research has focused upon the political economy of regime change and post-conflict statebuilding, in Cambodia and East Timor in particular. She is
the author of Dependent Communities: Aid and Politics in Cambodia and East Timor (Cornell SEAP, 2009) and The Political Economy of Cambodia's Transition 1991-2001 (Routledge, 2003).

Reviews

Rodan and Hughes book shows the importance of bringing politics back into the accountability debate in Southeast Asia...theirs is an argument that should be taken seriously by academics, civil society organizations and development agencies alike when assessing accountability reforms across the region.
*Michael Bühler, SOAS, University of London, ASEASUK News*

The Politics of Accountability is extremely impressive in its scope, depth and sophistication. The empirical chapters are extraordinarily rich, making extensive and compelling use of interview data gathered during the years of fieldwork. The framework significantly advances the "Murdoch school" of political analysis by foregrounding ideology, which has hitherto been relatively neglected. The overall argument is compelling, making a seminal contribution to our understanding of how institutional reforms can entrenth rather than undermine existing regimes ... The Politics of Accountability is of interest not merely to students of Southeast Asian politics, but also to those studying and to those interested in the specific kinds of institutions that the book covers.
*Lee Jones, Queen Mary, University of London, Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia.*

this book constitutes a significant contribution and provides intellectual and empirical rigour in arguing that accountability reforms are a key political issue that enables us to understand the limits of democratisation in this region of the world.
*Juanita Elias, Journal of Contemporary Asia*