Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
10-2019
Abstract
I n the year from May 2018 to May 2019, 6 of the 11 Southeast Asian states held major elections. The outcomes demonstrate the broad and mixed uses and impacts elections have in the region, ranging from what many consider to be a major democratization event in Malaysia wherein a coalition of opposition parties finally unseated the long-standing Barisan Nasional (BN), to the continued consolidation of single-party rule in Cambodia under Hun Sen’s Cambodian People’s Party (CPP). With so many elections happening in short order, we at Asian Politics & Policy felt that this is an opportune moment to compile a set of perspectives on these elections, based on a single theme. We reached out to an exciting group of junior scholars on Southeast Asia, all of whom have conducted extensive fieldwork in their countries of specialization in recent years. We asked each of these six path-breaking researchers to briefly address the election, discuss its impact, and offer an evaluation on the state of democracy in the country. Their responses are found below, chronologically ordered by election date.
Discipline
Political Science | Sociology
Research Areas
Sociology; Political Science
Publication
Asian Politics and Policy
Volume
11
Issue
4
First Page
663
Last Page
678
ISSN
1943-0779
Identifier
10.1111/aspp.12484
Publisher
Wiley: 24 months
Citation
RICKS, Jacob.(2019). Democracy in Southeast Asia: A year of Elections. Asian Politics and Policy, 11(4), 663-678.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3639
Creative Commons License
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Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1111/aspp.12484