Garry Rodan is an Australian academic who has been Emeritus Professor at Murdoch University since 2019. Rodan served as the Director of the Asia Research Centre at Murdoch (2002–2009, 2016–March 2019) and Professor of Politics and International Studies (2002–March 2019). He is also an elected Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.

Research

Rodan has written extensively on Singapore’s political and economic development and more generally on democratization and its problems in Asia, the changing nature of authoritarian rule, and on theoretical approaches for understanding development in the region. Rodan's research has included examination of the political economy of the international media in various parts of East and Southeast Asia, the political impact of the Internet, the implications of transparency reform in the region for politics, and the emergence of non-democratic institutions and ideologies of accountability and representation.

Books