The purpose of this thesis is to understand how authoritarian and semi-authoritarian regimes can become responsive in the absence of free and fair elections, sometimes even more so than democracies. To address this issue, the thesis focuses on cases drawn from Southeast Asia. Many semi-authoritarian and authoritarian regimes in the region seem to be responsive, such as Vietnam, Malaysia and Singapore, while democracies have often failed to respond in a similar manner. To account for these surprising results, the argument put forth in this thesis is that the presence of nominally democratic institutions - elections, legislatures and parties - can contribute greatly to the responsiveness of non-democratic regimes. Such institutions make impor...
Political stability is desired by every state. But is it contingent upon regime types or party syste...
As it constitutes a main feature of contemporary democracy, government responsiveness has provided t...
How does weak party institutionalization and clientelistic linkage mechanisms affect policy responsi...
In Political Science literature, Malaysia and Singapore have consistently been classified as semi-de...
In the thesis "Electoral Authoritarianism in Comparative Perspective of Southeast Asia", while analy...
How does experience with nominally democratic electoral institutions shape the politics and stabilit...
For more about the East-West Center, see http://www.eastwestcenter.org/In an influential study, Fish...
Does the lack of competitive elections in the less democratic newly industrialized or industrializin...
Political stability is desired by every state. But is it contingent upon regime types or party syste...
This dissertation investigates political market failures in developing countries. We deal with the i...
In the comparative research we present here as the introduction to a set of case studies, we first a...
What is the relationship between the strength of a country's democracy and the ability of its courts...
Includes bibliographical references (pages [210]-216).Literature on democracy frequently found that ...
Political analysts appear increasingly to agree on the procedural and normative worth of democracy ...
Recent scholarship argues that one solution to ensure longevity and economic growth in an au-thorita...
Political stability is desired by every state. But is it contingent upon regime types or party syste...
As it constitutes a main feature of contemporary democracy, government responsiveness has provided t...
How does weak party institutionalization and clientelistic linkage mechanisms affect policy responsi...
In Political Science literature, Malaysia and Singapore have consistently been classified as semi-de...
In the thesis "Electoral Authoritarianism in Comparative Perspective of Southeast Asia", while analy...
How does experience with nominally democratic electoral institutions shape the politics and stabilit...
For more about the East-West Center, see http://www.eastwestcenter.org/In an influential study, Fish...
Does the lack of competitive elections in the less democratic newly industrialized or industrializin...
Political stability is desired by every state. But is it contingent upon regime types or party syste...
This dissertation investigates political market failures in developing countries. We deal with the i...
In the comparative research we present here as the introduction to a set of case studies, we first a...
What is the relationship between the strength of a country's democracy and the ability of its courts...
Includes bibliographical references (pages [210]-216).Literature on democracy frequently found that ...
Political analysts appear increasingly to agree on the procedural and normative worth of democracy ...
Recent scholarship argues that one solution to ensure longevity and economic growth in an au-thorita...
Political stability is desired by every state. But is it contingent upon regime types or party syste...
As it constitutes a main feature of contemporary democracy, government responsiveness has provided t...
How does weak party institutionalization and clientelistic linkage mechanisms affect policy responsi...