Garry Rodan


Garry Rodan is an Australian academic who has been emeritus professor at Murdoch University since 2019.
Rodan served as the director of the Asia Research Centre at Murdoch and professor of politics and international studies. He is also an elected Fellow of the Academy of the [Social Sciences in Australia].

Research

Rodan has written extensively on Singapore's political and economic development and more generally on democratization and its problems in Asia, the changing nature of authoritarian rule, and on theoretical approaches for understanding development in the region.
Rodan's research has included examination of the political economy of the international media in various parts of East and Southeast Asia, the political impact of the Internet, the implications of transparency reform in the region for politics, and the emergence of non-democratic institutions and ideologies of accountability and representation.

Books

  • Participation without Democracy: Containing Conflict in Southeast Asia
  • The Politics of Accountability in Southeast Asia: The Dominance of Moral Ideologies
  • The Political Economy of South-East Asia: Markets, power and contestation
  • Neoliberalism and Conflict in Asia after 9/11
  • Transparency and Authoritarian Rule in Southeast Asia
  • Political Economy of Southeast Asia: Conflict, Crises, and Change
  • Singapore, International Library of Social Change in Asia-Pacific Series
  • The Political Economy of South-East Asia: An Introduction
  • Political Oppositions in Industrialising Asia
  • Southeast Asia in the 1990s: ''Authoritarianism, Democracy and Capitalism
  • Singapore Changes Guard: Social, Political and Economic Directions in the 1990s
  • The Political Economy of Singapore's Industrialization: National State and International Capital'' Translated into Japanese by Keiko Tsuji Tamura for San'ichi Press, Tokyo, 1992.