Pluralist Constitutions in Southeast Asia

Author: Jaclyn Neo, Bui Ngoc Son
Publisher: Hart Publishing
ISBN: 9781509920457

Published In: April 2019
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only
Paperback Edition ISBN: 9781509945689

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This book examines how constitutional orders in individual Southeast Asian countries respond to a range of ethnic, political, and legal plurality in the respective countries.

Specifically, it examines: (1) the pluralist constitutional values and ideas embodied in the constitutions; (2) the pluralist sources of constitutional norms; (3) the design of constitutional structure (including, election system, the separation of power, federation, and decentralization) to address plurality; and (4) the way the bill of rights (including the competing universal and contextual principles of constitutional rights, proportionality, and specific rights) are designed to respond to plurality.

The countries covered in this book include ten ASEAN members, namely Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, The Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.

1. Pluralist Constitutions and the Southeast Asian Context

Jaclyn L. Neo and Bui Ngoc Son

2. Constitutionalising Multiple Pluralities in Malaysia

Dian A. H. Shah

3. The Imperative of Integrative Pluralist Constitutionalism: Going Beyond Formal Equality, Eschewing Rights, and Accommodation of Differences in Singapore

Eugene K B Tan

4. Pluralism in Brunei’s Constitution? Ethnicity, Religion and the Absolute Monarchy

Kerstin Steiner and Dominik M Müller

5. Indonesia’s Constitutional Responses to Plurality

Herlambang P. Wiratraman and Dian A. H. Shah

6. Myanmar’s Pluralist Constitution: Nation-Building versus State-Building

Nyi Nyi Kyaw

7. Pluralist Constitution in Cambodia

Taing Ratana

8. Constitutions in Ethnically Plural Societies: Laos and Vietnam

Bui Ngoc Son

9. Volcanic Constitution: How is Plurality Turning Against Constitutionalism in Thailand?