Strategies of authoritarian survival and dissensus in Southeast Asia : weak men versus strongmen / / Sokphea Young

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910488703203321
• Autore: Young Sokphea
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Singapore : , : Springer, , [2021]; ©2021
• ISBN: 981-336-112-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (255 pages)
• Collana: Palgrave Series in Asia and Pacific Studies
• Disciplina: 320.530959
• Soggetti: Authoritarianism - Southeast Asia; Comparative government; Southeast Asia Politics and government 21st century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Praise For Strategies of Authoritarian Survival and Dissensus in Southeast Asia -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Political Durability and Protests -- Introduction -- Cycles of Protest -- Outcomes of Protest -- Explaining the Dynamics of Outcomes-Success or Failure-of Protest -- Political Regimes -- Strategies for Political Durability of the Regime -- Comparison, and Organisation of the Book -- References -- 2 The Dynamics of Political Durability of Cambodia's Ruling Regime -- Socio-Political Economic Evolution -- An Entrenched Neo-Patrimonial System -- Strategies for Political Survival of the Kleptocracy -- Winning Coalitions and Party Working Groups -- Rent Extraction from Public Goods -- Rent Extraction from Natural Resources -- Forestry and Timber -- Land Resources -- Nexus of Private Companies and Winning Coalitions in Rent Extraction -- Elections: Coercive Vote-Buying and Disenfranchising -- Co-Option and Circumvention of Opposition Parties and Challengers -- CSO Protests Against Institutional Rent Extraction and Responses -- References -- 3 A Peasant Movement, Kleptocratic Elites and the Global Supply Chains -- Introduction -- A Peasant Movement Targeting a Sugar Baron -- Domestic Movements and Responses -- Escalation to International Supply Chain Movement and Responses -- Why the Movements Did Not ; Achieve Most of Their Demands -- The Sugar Baron's Patronage Networks in Rent Extraction -- Low Autonomy and Strong Capture of the Subordinate Institutions -- Protecting Rent of the Sugar Baron -- Bargaining Power and Responses of the Sugar Company -- References -- 4 The Indigenous People and the Strange Westerner -- The Indigenous Communities, the Government and the Company -- The Escalation from Institutional to Non-institutional Tactics.; Why the Indigenous People Achieved Most of Their Demands -- Risk of a Weak Patron-Client Network -- Strong Autonomy of the Subordinate Institutions -- Placating the Indigenous People -- The Company's Compliance, Mitigation and Self-Regulatory Initiatives -- References -- 5 Civil Society Organisations Versus the Ruler: A Zero-Sum Game? -- A Zero-Sum Game -- Balancing Strategies to Survive: Between Repression and Concession -- Complex Corporate Behaviour and Power in Relation to the Regime -- The Fate of Grassroots Protests and the Ruler's Durability -- Civil Society, Critical Media, Co-Option and Repression -- References -- 6 A Smart Electoral Authoritarian Leader and Discontents in Malaysia -- Introduction -- Electoral Rhetoric -- Money Politics -- Economic Institution of Rent Redistribution -- Purges and Repression -- Space of Civil Society -- Protests of the Weak, Marginalised and Indigenous Communities -- The Exit Strategies and Revival of the Smart Strongman -- References -- 7 A Strongman and Dissidents in Indonesia -- Introduction -- The Dynamics and Socio-Political Economy of the Durability of the New Order -- Political Repression -- Elections -- Clientelist Economy -- External Budget Support and Financial Assistance -- Civil Society, the Third Sector and the Disgruntled -- The Weak and Grassroots Mobilisation, and Outcomes -- The Kedung Ombo Dam Case -- Lindu Indigenous Communities and the Dam -- The Urip Sumoharjo Land Dispute -- The Fate of Suharto and the Dissidents -- References -- 8 The Logic of Ruler Survival, and Consequences for Discontents in Southeast Asia -- The Logical Underpinnings of Authoritarian Rulers' Grip on Power -- Extractive and Distributive Politico-Economic Institution -- Entrenched Networks of Winning Coalitions -- Legitimacy and Elections -- The Control of the Armed Forces -- International Support.; The Logical Consequences of the Resistance of the Weak -- The Consequences of Social Movements in Southeast Asian Political Regimes -- Repertoires of the Weak -- Repercussion: When Do the Weak Contribute to Regime Change? -- References -- Index.