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

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 …

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

With fresh and provocative insights into the everyday reality of politics in post-Soviet Central
Asia, this volume moves beyond commonplaces about strong and weak states to ask critical …

The adjective “authoritarian” to describe political regimes obscures much variety. What
makes some regimes “soft” authoritarian and others “hard?” This article suggests that the …

By providing various fascinating first-hand accounts of how citizens negotiate their rights in
the context of weak state institutions, Citizenship and Democratization in Southeast Asia …

This article examines the concepts of democracy and legitimacy in the context of post-Soviet
Central Asia. Its first argument is that democratization projects have lived through hard times …

In the 1970s, political opposition in various parts of East and Southeast Asia was primarily
characterised by peasant insurgencies and radical student movements questioning the very …

Divided societies have long been seen as terrible terrain for democracy. Yet some countries
in South and Southeast Asia have managed to overcome ethnic and religious rifts and …

The concept of regime legitimacy is central to understanding modern political life. All modern
political regimes depend on the public's willing acquiescence and support in order to survive …