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 which royalist elements in the military might mount a
coup, one that even gained favour with the new middle class. And in
Indonesia, lauded today as the region's only democracy still
standing, the government's writ over the security forces has
remained weak, with military commanders nestling in unaccountable
domains, there to conduct their shadowy business dealings.
Elsewhere, dominant single parties persist in Malaysia, Singapore,
Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, while a military junta perpetuates its
brutal control over Burma. This volume, the first to bring together
a series of country cases and comparative narratives about the
recent revival of authoritarian rule in Southeast Asia, identifies
the structural and voluntarist dynamics that underlie this trend
and the institutional patterns that are taking shape. This book was
published as a special issue of The Pacific Review.
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