6 Citations
SUMMARY: The Global State of Democracy 2019: Addressing the Ills, Reviving the Promise
- Political Science
- 2019
Structural Injustice, Slow Violence? The Political Ecology of a “Best Practice” Hydropower Dam in Lao PDR
- EconomicsJournal of Contemporary Asia
- 2018
ABSTRACT Large areas of the rural Lao landscape are being rapidly transformed by infrastructure development projects. Arguably, it is hydraulic development that is contributing most significantly to…
Abolishing Illiteracy and Upgrading Culture: Adult Education and Revolutionary Hegemony in Socialist Laos
- Sociology
- 2018
ABSTRACT This article examines the monopolisation of political space by the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party, before and after 1975. Together with coercive measures, the Marxist-Leninist regime…
The framing and governance of climate change adaptation projects in Lao PDR and Cambodia
- Political ScienceInternational Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics
- 2018
This study explores the way climate change adaptation projects in Cambodia and Lao PDR have been framed. Four frames were identified: inadequate infrastructure; information deficits; limited planning…
Legitimation of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party: Socialism, Chintanakan Mai (New Thinking) and Reform
- Political Science
- 2018
ABSTRACT To date, scholars of authoritarianism have paid much attention to the use of democratic institutions in dictatorships to mitigate threats from both internal and external ruling elites, to…
Laos in 2013: International Controversies, Economic Concerns and the Post-Socialist Rhetoric of Rule
- Political ScienceSoutheast Asian Affairs
- 2014
In 2013, after several years of basking in the glow of strong economic growth and prominent international events, the ruling Lao People’s Revolutionary Party (LPRP) faced an International Monetary…
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