This book demonstrates how the rule of law in Asia is more likely to be used as a means of consolidating executive power, than as a vehicle for introducing democratically controlled legal, economic and political reforms. A fundamental argument of the authors is that the rule of law needs to be understood in the context of notions of political authority to be found within the state. There are ch…
This volume, has its origins in a highly successful international workshop organised by the Asia ResearchCentre, Murdoch University, Australia and Represents an Innovative attempt to SUbject to Critical Scrutiny the Calims about the Emergence and Consolidation of the Liberal Notions of Rule of Law in East Asia