The Mainstreaming of Gender and Democratization in Southeast Asia. The Role of NGO’s
The Mainstreaming of Gender and Democratization in Southeast Asia. The Role of NGO’s

Author(s): Keiko T. Tamura
Subject(s): Politics, Gender Studies, Civil Society
Published by: Research Center of the Slovak Foreign Policy Association (RC SFPA)
Keywords: NGO; Southeast Asia; gender; democratization;
Summary/Abstract: When the Asian countries with successful economic growth records, such as South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and Indonesia, became democratized in the 1980s and 90s, a new hypothesis gained wide circulation. The hypothesis asserts that the intention to pursue modernization led to economic growth, giving rise in turn to the middle class, which spearheaded the democratization movement. This view, which tries to understand the rise of the “middle class” in Asia in a unilinear way is becoming an influential one.

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