Journal article | Zeitschriftenartikel

The Limits and Potential of Liberal Democratisation in Southeast Asia

This article argues that Southeast Asia is a region where uneven political development presents a theoretical challenge to the study of regime change and continuity in the academic field of comparative politics. Of the 11 political regimes, only Timor-Leste, the Philippines, and Indonesia can now be considered liberally democratic. However, these democracies are far from consolidated. The other eight regimes range from soft dictatorships to electoral authoritarian regimes and illiberal democracies. This article seeks to explain why no single theory adequately explains regime change and continuity in this region. Impediments to democratisation are many – one of which is the fact that traditional and undemocratic institutions remain strong and that transitions to civilian rule remain vulnerable to other powerful state institutions, most notably the armed forces. (author's abstract)

ISSN
1868-1034
Extent
Seite(n): 19-47
Language
Englisch
Notes
Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)

Bibliographic citation
Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, 33(3)

Subject
Staatsformen und Regierungssysteme
Politikwissenschaft
Allgemeines, spezielle Theorien und Schulen, Methoden, Entwicklung und Geschichte der Politikwissenschaft
Staat, staatliche Organisationsformen
Südostasien
Theorievergleich
politische Theorie
politisches Regime
Typologie
politischer Wandel
politisches System
Vergleich
Demokratie
Region
Demokratisierung
politische Entwicklung

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Peou, Sorpong
Event
Veröffentlichung
(where)
Deutschland
(when)
2014

URN
urn:nbn:de:gbv:18-4-8054
Last update
21.06.2024, 4:26 PM CEST

Data provider

This object is provided by:
GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln. If you have any questions about the object, please contact the data provider.

Object type

  • Zeitschriftenartikel

Associated

  • Peou, Sorpong

Time of origin

  • 2014

Other Objects (12)