Technocrats and Politics in the Asean Countries
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2890100 |
|---|---|
| Authors | R S Milne (University of British Columbia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1982 |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 403 |
| Publication date | 1982-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Pacific Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0030-851X • E-ISSN: 1715-3379 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2757118 |
| OpenAlex | W2327991308 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
A FEW YEARS AGO, a collection of articles was published on the role of technocrats at various levels of government in Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, and, in less detail, Laos.' The present paper is confined the study of those technocrats who hold ministerial positions, but is wider in scope geographically, because it deals also with the remaining ASEAN countries, Singapore and Malaysia. It seeks relate the existence and role of ministerial technocrats the nature of the regime and, in particular, degrees and varieties of authoritarianism. In the mid-1970s, it seemed that the prominence of ministerial-level technocrats was related in some way the authoritarian nature of a regime. But looking at the ASEAN countries as a whole raises some puzzling questions. Why has a decrease in authoritarianism in Thailand over the last decade been accompanied by an increase in the number of ministerial technocrats? Why in Singapore, which has some pronounced authoritarian characteristics, do the most successful political technocrats have the prospect of attaining the highest political power, while in Indonesia and the Philippines they are limited subordinate roles? Why in Malaysia, where the government party is dominant and the opposition divided, is there nevertheless sufficient political competition make political ability more highly valued than technocratic ability? The word technocracy was coined after World War I to describe a system of economic thought inspired by the kind of rational analysis at the base of the physical sciences.2 Going further back, it has been claimed that economic planners, conceptually close technocrats, are the modern embodiment of the ideas of Spencer, Comte and Saint
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| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,19 |
| Citation span | 1984 - 2019 (36) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |