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

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 …

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

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 …

In this article, I compare authoritarian practices in post-transition Philippines and Indonesia.
The comparison is apt, I think, because after moving through two quite different transitions …

Authoritarian ruling parties are expected to be exceptionally resistant to democratization. Yet
some of the strongest authoritarian parties in the world have not resisted democratization …

This article grapples with the tricky issue of democratic consolidation in post-Soeharto
Indonesia. It recognizes the great strides the country has made toward establishing a rights …

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 …

In the last decade, autocrats and democrats alike have used a wide range of innovative
illiberal methods to cement or expand their power. Especially in democracies, however …