The Meaning of Democracy in Southeast Asia

Fossati, Diego; Coma, Ferrán Martínez i

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“…A full assessment of democracy (and non-democracy) in Southeast Asia would be beyond the scope of this discussion. Luckily, a plethora of scholars have taken on that charge already (for just a few, Case, 2002;Fossati and i Coma, 2023;Mietzner, 2021;Rodan, 2018). But we can address changeto what extent regimes in the region are becoming more or less democraticin order to home in on the role of civil society in, or against, that process.…”

Section: Backsliding and Autocratisationmentioning

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Civil Society's Inconsistent Liberalism in Southeast Asia: Exercising Accountability Along Differing Diagonals

Weiss

2023

Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs

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Predating but intensifying with the public health and economic crises COVID-19 sparked has been a political one, of democratic decline or autocratic consolidation, across much of Southeast Asia. Concerned actors and organisations from civil society have acted as firewalls against democratic decline or autocratisation, even as fellow civil society organisations (CSOs) have exerted countervailing, anti-democratic pressure. Indeed, CSOs may be no more progressive than the state, nor fully autonomous from it, and may be debilitatingly fragmented or polarised. And yet across the region, CSOs still disrupt regimes’ would-be panoptic scrutiny and authority, by presenting alternative spaces and premises for mobilisation and voice, through a range of modalities. Regardless of their ideological stance, CSOs’ political engagement represents the promise or exercise of diagonal accountability. This check interacts with vertical and horizontal dimensions and retains the potential for meaningful intervention – but need not pull in a liberal direction.

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Section: Backsliding and Autocratisationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Civil Society's Inconsistent Liberalism in Southeast Asia: Exercising Accountability Along Differing Diagonals

Weiss

2023

Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs

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State and Sub-State Nationalism in Southeast Asia

Bertrand

2024

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Nationalism is a political phenomenon with deep roots in Southeast Asia. Yet, state attempts to create homogenous nations met with resistance. This Element focuses on understanding the rise and subsequent ebbing of sub-state nationalist mobilization in response to state nationalism. Two factors allowed sub-state nationalist movements to be formed and persist: first, state nationalisms that were insufficiently inclusive; second, the state's use of authoritarian tools to implement its nationalist agenda. But Southeast Asian states were able to reduce sub-state nationalist mobilization when they changed their policies to meet two conditions: i) some degree of explicit recognition of the distinctiveness of groups; ii) institutional flexibility toward regional/local territorial units to accommodate a high degree of group self-governance. The Element focuses on four states in the region – namely Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Myanmar.

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Thailand

Kongkirati

2024

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This Element aims to provide an overview of Thai politics with an up-to-date discussion of the characteristics of political regimes, political economy, and identity and mobilization that are grounded in historical analysis stretching back to the formation of the modern nation state. The thematic topics will focus on a) the chronic instability and ever-changing nature of political regimes resulting in the failure of democratic consolidation, b) the nexus of business and politics sustained by a patrimonial state structure, patronage politics and political corruption, and c) the contestation of identity and the causes and consequences of mass mobilization in the civic space and street politics.

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The Meaning of Democracy in Southeast Asia

Cited by 9 publications

References 126 publications

Civil Society's Inconsistent Liberalism in Southeast Asia: Exercising Accountability Along Differing Diagonals

Civil Society's Inconsistent Liberalism in Southeast Asia: Exercising Accountability Along Differing Diagonals

State and Sub-State Nationalism in Southeast Asia

Thailand

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