Southeast Asia's Hybrid Regimes: When Do Voters Change Them?
@article{Case2005SoutheastAH, title={Southeast Asia's Hybrid Regimes: When Do Voters Change Them?}, author={William Case}, journal={Journal of East Asian Studies}, year={2005}, volume={5}, pages={215 - 237} }
Today many governments that seek to perpetuate their power operate hybrid regimes, manipulating institutions yet holding regular elections. In this way, governments gain some legitimacy for their extended incumbency through the residual competitiveness that this regime type allows. However, recent studies show that voters may sometimes grow so activated that they make new use of this competitiveness, however limited, and turn elections into the means by which they can finally change the regime…
37 Citations
Hybrid Politics and New Competitiveness: Hong Kong’s 2007 Chief Executive Election
- Political Science
- 2008
In recounting Hong Kong's chief executive election in 2007, this paper charts the unexpected appearance of an “unauthorized” candidate and the occurrence of vibrant campaigning. Further, as electoral…
An Experiment with a Hybrid Regime in Nepal (1990—2006)
- Political Science
- 2010
The purpose of this article is to examine the political transition in Nepal during a period of 16 years (1990—2006) when it operated under a multiparty parliamentary polity. It argues that if a…
Bound to Rule: Party Institutions and Regime Trajectories in Malaysia and the Philippines
- Political Science
- 2008
This article revisits the electoral emphasis of hybrid regime studies, arguing in stead that the impact of elections is structured by variations in prior political in stitutions, particularly the…
Elections, Repertoires of Contention and Habitus in Four Civil Society Engagements in Malaysia's 2008 General Elections
- Political Science
- 2010
The general elections in Malaysia in 2008 saw the ruling coalition, which has ruled Malaysia uninterrupted since independence in 1957, lose control of a number of states and become significantly…
The diversity of political regimes
- Political Science
- 2013
The topic of this book is political cleavages in 19 countries in Central and Eastern Europe. The theoretical link between political stability and political cleavages is simple – the emergence of a…
Payoffs, Parties, or Policies: “Money Politics” and Electoral Authoritarian Resilience
- Political Science
- 2016
ABSTRACT A key part of what sustains electoral authoritarianism over the long term is genuine popular support. Dominant parties, particularly in a developmental context (the primary setting for such…
Not created equal: Institutional constraints and the democratic peace
- Political Science
- 2013
A prominent explanation for the democratic peace is that democracies are by institutional design less likely to go to war than autocracies. In this review essay of the institutional constraints…
Barisan nasional political dominance and the general elections of 2004 in Malaysia
- Political Science
- 2007
This paper examines how the Barisan Nasional (National Front, BN) coalition has held power in Malaysia since that country s independence in 1957. The first of two perspectives taken in this…
Ruling Coalition Restructuring under Macao's Hybrid Regime
- Political Science
- 2017
The existing literature has long recognized that the postcolonial Macao government relies on traditional pro-Beijing associations to mediate state–society relations. However, the political…
Of inequality and irritation: new agendas and activism in Malaysia and Singapore
- Political Science
- 2014
Democratization may best be understood in terms of movement towards fair representation and empowerment across all society. Electoral authoritarian, or “hybrid”, regimes fall far short of this mark,…
References
SHOWING 1-10 OF 40 REFERENCES
Malaysia's general elections in 1999: a consolidated and high‐quality semi‐democracy
- Political Science
- 2001
Malaysia's ruling coalition, first christened the Alliance and later the Barisan Nasional [National Front], has been in power since the mid-1950s. Over time, it has grown from three ethnically…
Democracy Challenged: The Rise of Semi-Authoritarianism
- Political Science
- 2002
During the 1990s, international democracy promotion efforts led to the establishment of numerous regimes that cannot be easily classified as either authoritarian or democratic. They display…
Myths of Moderation: Confrontation and Conflict during Democratic Transitions
- Political Science
- 1997
In a 1970 essay that marked the beginning of a new wave of writing on democratization, Dankwart A. Rustow argued persuasively that democracy is the fruit of "choice" and "conscious decision" on the…
Singapore Politics Under the People's Action Party
- Political Science
- 2002
1. What is Remarkable about Singapore? 2. How Singapore Became Independent: Lee Kuan Yew and the People's Action Party (PAP) 3. Locations of Power: The state and the government 4. The People's Action…
The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century
- Political Science
- 1991
Between 1974 and 1990 more than 30 countries in Southern Europe, Latin America, East Asia, and Eastern Europe shifted from authoritarian to democratic systems of government. This global democratic…
The political economy of the Asian financial crisis
- Economics
- 2000
The Asian crisis sparked a thorough reappraisal of international financial norms, the policy prescriptions of the International Monetary Fund and the adequacy of the existing financial architecture.…
Democratic Experiments in Africa: Regime Transitions in Comparative Perspective
- Political Science
- 1997
Introduction 1. Approaches to democratization 2. Neopatrimonial rule in Africa 3. Africa's divergent transitions, 1990-1994 4. Explaining political protest 5. Explaining political liberalization 6.…
SINGAPORE IN 2003: Another Tough Year
- Economics
- 2004
Abstract During 2003, Singapore9s prime minister, Goh Chok Tong, announced that he would be succeeded by Lee Hsien Loong some time before the next election. The country9s economy was severely…
Elections Without Democracy: The Menu of Manipulation
- Psychology
- 2002
Elections,usually taken to be a hallmark of democracy,can also become a tool of authoritarian powerholders seeking to legitimate their rule.
Indonesian Politics in Crisis: The Long Fall of Suharto, 1996-98
- Economics
- 2003
Despite a severe economic crisis, social unrest and growing pressure for political change in Indonesia, President Suharto’s hold on power seemed secure. Recent events have proved this otherwise. By…