Transition theory literature has been preoccupied with either identifying why democracy has
not arrived or with how it can be consolidated where it has emerged. Most recently, arising …

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

Contemporary democratic backsliding typically unfolds gradually, as elected incumbents
slowly and relentlessly subvert democratic institutions without openly questioning the …

With reference to South Asia, we argue that recourse to the conventional structuralist and
transition accounts of democratisation sustains an unhelpful dichotomy. Those approaches …

This article explores the impact of democratic transitions in Southeast Asia on regional co-
operation, and the relationship between this process and the development of a non-official …

Recent scholarship has identified a new era of post-democracy or democratic crisis in the
West, characterised by the increasing resort to authoritarian measures and the erosion of …

Most recent studies of regime change have focused on democratic transitions. Many argue
that democracy is a stable regime form, especially when secured through elite negotiations …

In the last decade we have wimessed the end of the Cold War and the collapse of various
authoritarian regimes in Eastern Europe, Latin America and East Asia. Not surprisingly, this …

There is ready agreement that countries do not emerge in straightforward transitions from
authoritarian rule to multi-party democracy. Yet, less consensus can be found in how we …

In keeping with much analysis of Southeast Asian politics today, the papers in this special
issue argue that it is less fruitful to study democratic transitions than authoritarian durability …