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Record Nr.

UNINA9910165042003321

Autore

Case William

Titolo

Populist threats and democracy's fate in Southeast Asia : Thailand, the Philippines, and Indonesia / / William Case

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2017

ISBN

1-138-34815-5

1-315-18814-7

1-351-74221-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (73 pages) : illustrations, tables

Collana

Routledge Contemporary Asia Series

Disciplina

320.56/620959

Soggetti

Democracy - Southeast Asia

Populism - Southeast Asia

Civil society - Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Democratic durability in Southeast Asia -- 2. Elite relations, social coalitions, and populist mobilization -- 3. Democracy's fate.

Sommario/riassunto

"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 factors are by themselves incomplete. Hence, they lead us wrongly to anticipate democracy's persistence in Thailand and its collapse in Indonesia. They more accurately, though only partially correlate with democracy's fluctuations in the Philippines. Advancing a new argument, Case shows that democracy's fate is determined instead by the opportunities that contextual factors can provide for populist mobilization. His model enables us better to understand democracy's breakdown in Thailand, its survival in



Indonesia, and its slippage in the Philippines. Presenting research into vital questions over democratic durability and authoritarian backlash, this book will be of interest to scholars in the field of comparative politics, specifically comparative democratization and Southeast Asian politics"--