The antipolitics of good governance: From global social policy to a global populism?

Critical Asian Studies

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 571-590

  Jayasuriya, Kanishka ^a   Hewison, Kevin ^b,c  

^a MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; POPULISM; SOCIAL POLICY;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; WORLD;

EID: 10244247717     PISSN: 14672715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1467271042000273257     Document Type: Article

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