There was a momentum around change both locally and nationally, for a new system of governance that would enable better decision making, clearer definition of roles, less bureaucracy, more involvement, and more scrutiny. Many of the same criticisms were also levelled at this new system when the...
M. Zuhdi Jasser has long — and long before 9/11 as he reminds in the above video (8:44) — advocated for a moderate Islam, or approach to Islam, compatible with American democratic principles, broadest popular participation in governance, and authentic religion and religious freedom. You’ll...
(see Agamben The kingdom and the Glory – for a theological genealogy of economy and governance.) The history is rich and the modern period seems thin and self-satisfied. New economics, which will need to deal with land and its usee and ownership, can learn from this past. 2099. Climate...
Jayasuriya, K. M. (2000). Authoritarian liberalism, governance and the emergence of the regulatory state in post-crisis East Asia. In R. Robison, M. Beeson, K. Jayasuriya, & H. Kim (Eds.),Politics and markets in the wake of the Asian crisis, Asian capitalisms(pp. 315–330). London ...