Like the postcolonial world more generally, Southeast Asia exhibits tremendous variation in
state capacity and authoritarian durability. Ordering Power draws on theoretical insights …

Andreas Schedler preferences and authoritarian manipulation. We can resolve this
observational problem either by using the competitiveness of opposition parties as a proxy …

This article analyses the evolution of political finance reform debates in Malaysia, one of the
world's most durable electoral authoritarian regimes. While the reliance of the dominant …

The results of the recent 2018 general election (GE14) in Malaysia were exceptional. The
ruling party–Barisan Nasional (BN)–was ousted from power after over six decades of …

Over the past quarter century new ideologies of participation and representation have
proliferated across democratic and non-democratic regimes. In Participation without …

Experts examine censorship, surveillance, and resistance across Asia, from China and India
to Malaysia and the Philippines. A daily battle for rights and freedoms in cyberspace is being …

How do societies negotiate the apparently competing agendas of environmental protection
and social justice? Why do some countries perform much better than others on this front …

(Un) Civil Society and Political Change in Indonesia provides critical analysis of Indonesia's
civil society and its impact on the country's democratization efforts that does not only take the …

Maluku in eastern Indonesia is the home to Muslims, Protestants, and Catholics who had for
the most part been living peaceably since the sixteenth century. In 1999, brutal conflicts …

This article looks at the development of civil society in Malaysia under competitive
authoritarian rule. It focuses on three main questions: What role does civil society play under …