Analysis uncovers that in the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Cambodia, and Singapore, the executive is held more accountable by legislatures under electoral authoritarianism than in new democracies. Rather than leading to a transition to democratic politics, this accountability strengthens authoritarian rule.
Analysis uncovers that in the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Cambodia, and Singapore, the executive is held more accountable by legislatures under ...
In the Asia Pacific region, historical legacies and social structures dispose civil and political society to interact in different ways to Western best-practice scenarios which then go on to produce have implications for democracy and governance. These outcomes are derived from conditions that are delicately intertwined and are influenced by, and have influence upon, colonial legacies, religion, ethnic pluralism, the role of the military, the monarchy, bureaucratic capacities, constitutions, party systems, elections, executive-legislative relations, and the judiciaries.
This book...
In the Asia Pacific region, historical legacies and social structures dispose civil and political society to interact in different ways to Western ...
Over the past two decades, book-length analyses of politics in Southeast Asia, like those addressing other parts of the developing world, have focused closely on democratic change, election events, and institution building. But recently, democracy's fortunes have ebbed in the region. In the Philippines, the progenitor of 'people power', democracy has been diminished by electoral cheating and gross human rights violations. In Thailand, though the former Prime Minister, Thaksin Shinawatra, scored successive electoral victories, he so committed executive abuses that he served up the pretext by...
Over the past two decades, book-length analyses of politics in Southeast Asia, like those addressing other parts of the developing world, have focused...
Southeast Asia, an economically dynamic and strategically vital region, seemed until recently to be transiting to more democratic politics. This progress has suddenly stalled or even gone into reverse, requiring that analysts seriously rethink their expectations and theorizing. The "Routledge Handbook of Southeast Asian Democratization" provides the first book-length account of the reasons for democracy s declining fortunes in the region today. Combining theory and case studies, it is structured in four major sections:
Stunted Trajectories and Unhelpful Milieus
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Southeast Asia, an economically dynamic and strategically vital region, seemed until recently to be transiting to more democratic politics. This pr...
Democracy in Southeast Asia has been explained using a number of factors including historical legacies, social structures, developmental levels, transitional processes, and institutional designs while other elements, such as elite-level relations and social coalitions, have been overlooked.
This book offers a new explanation for democracy s collapse or persistence in Southeast Asia today. Focusing on Thailand, the Philippines and Indonesia the three countries in the region with the most democratic experience William Case shows that existing accounts based on contextual...
Democracy in Southeast Asia has been explained using a number of factors including historical legacies, social structures, developmental levels, tr...
