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33
Citations
5374
World Ranking
917
National Ranking
40

Overview

Garry Rodan is affiliated with Murdoch University in Australia and has produced research primarily in the field of Social Sciences. Their work spans several subfields, including Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations, and Public Administration.

Their research focuses on topics related to Southeast Asian sociopolitical studies, socioeconomic development in Asia, Asian studies and history, labor movements and unions, and Cambodian history and society. These areas reflect the thematic breadth of their academic inquiry.

Rodan's recent papers include:

  • "The new political economy of Australia-Southeast Asia engagement" (2025), published in Australian Journal Of International Affairs
  • "Political Coalitions of Labour Control: Comparing Singapore and Cambodia" (2025), published in Journal of Contemporary Asia

Frequent co-authors in their work include James Cotton (two collaborations), J. Wayne Baker, Australian Institute of International Affairs, G. Barker, and John Ravenhill.

Rodan has published in venues such as Australian Journal Of International Affairs and Journal of Contemporary Asia, reflecting engagement with journals specializing in regional and international political studies.

They have also authored books published by Cambridge University Press. Notable titles include "Civil Society in Southeast Asia" (2022), which has accumulated citations, and "Australia in World Affairs 2006-2010" (2024).

Best Publications

  • The Political Economy of Singapore's Industrialization: National State and International Capital

    Garry Rodan

  • Transparency and Authoritarian Rule in Southeast Asia: Singapore and Malaysia

    Garry Rodan

  • The Internet and Political Control in Singapore

    Garry Rodan

  • Beyond Hybrid Regimes: More Participation, Less Contestation in Southeast Asia

    Kanishka Jayasuriya;Garry Rodan

  • Political Oppositions in Industrialising Asia

    Garry Rodan

  • Theorising political opposition in East and Southeast Asia

    Garry Rodan

  • Southeast Asia in the 1990s: authoritarianism, democracy and capitalism

    Kevin Hewison;Richard Robison;Garry Rodan

  • Embracing electronic media but suppressing civil society: Authoritarian consolidation in Singapore

    Garry Rodan

  • The political economy of South-East Asia : conflicts, crises, and change

    Garry Rodan;Kevin Hewison;Richard Robison

  • State-society relations and political opposition in Singapore

    G. Rodan

  • The political economy of South-East Asia : markets, power and contestation

    Garry Rodan;Kevin Hewison;Richard Robison

  • Preserving the one-party state in contemporary Singapore

    R. Robison;K. Hewison;G. Rodan

  • Capitalist development, regime transitions and new forms of authoritarianism in Asia

    Garry Rodan;Kanishka Jayasuriya

  • Civil society and other political possibilities in Southeast Asia

    Garry Rodan

  • The internationalization of ideological conflict: Asia's new significance

    Garry Rodan

  • The Politics of Accountability in Southeast Asia: The Dominance of Moral Ideologies

    Garry Rodan;Caroline Hughes

  • The technocratic politics of administrative participation: case studies of Singapore and Vietnam

    Garry Rodan;Kanishka Jayasuriya

  • The ebb and flow of civil society and the decline of the Left in Southeast Asia

    K. Hewison;G. Rodan

  • Class transformations and political tensions in Singapore’s development

    G. Rodan

  • Singapore's leadership transition: erosion or refinement of authoritarian rule?

    Garry Rodan

  • Participation without Democracy

    Garry Rodan

  • On Liberalism Disavowed: Communitarianism and State Capitalism in Singapore by Chua Beng Huat (review)

    Garry Rodan;John R. Clammer;Chua Beng Huat

Frequent Co-Authors

Kevin Hewison
Kevin Hewison University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Kanishka Jayasuriya
Kanishka Jayasuriya Murdoch University
Richard Higgott
Richard Higgott Vrije Universiteit Brussel

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