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Asian Survey (2023) 63 (2): 270–280.
Published: 01 April 2023
...Ehito Kimura After another surge in cases, COVID-19 slowly receded from Indonesia’s foreground in 2022 as restrictions were lifted, schools and businesses reopened, and the economy rebounded. The Jokowi government posted several legislative victories while also testing the guardrails of democracy...
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Asian Survey (2023) 63 (2): 199–212.
Published: 01 April 2023
... remained one of the fastest-growing economies in the world in 2022. However, it suffered very significant setbacks to its democracy, with increased attacks on civil and political liberties and human rights, and on its institutions, by BJP-led governments at the center and in the states. India effectively...
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Asian Survey (2022) 62 (3): 524–555.
Published: 07 April 2022
... by empirically investigating not only direct but also indirect links between trade globalization and democracy in East Asia. I find that the direct negative effect of trade integration on democracy is mitigated by its indirect positive impact via inequality. Empirical evidence is provided by the three-stage...
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Asian Survey (2021) 61 (5): 825–853.
Published: 02 September 2021
... damaging to democracy, elite anticorruption politics can also represent a significant barrier to democratic deepening and welfare. Corruption as a general concept—its character, subtypes, causes and consequences—is a vast area of enquiry far beyond our remit, aspects of which have been well covered...
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Asian Survey (2021) 61 (5): 797–824.
Published: 20 August 2021
...Eunsook Jung Many scholars argue that democracy tames religious fundamentalism. This inclusion-moderation theory holds that when radical religious movements are incorporated in the democratic system, they have incentives to adhere to institutional frameworks to influence politics and access power...
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Asian Survey (2021) 61 (1): 123–129.
Published: 01 February 2021
... Asian neighbors remained tense as Cambodia drifted closer into a dependent relationship with China. © 2021 by The Regents of the University of California 2021 COVID-19 authoritarianism democracy trade US-Cambodia relations China-Cambodia relations JOHN D. CIORCIARI Cambodia in 2020...
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Asian Survey (2020) 60 (6): 1044–1071.
Published: 03 December 2020
... and fair elections, an independent judiciary, and a free media, but no different in their low level of support for human rights. © 2020 by The Regents of the University of California 2020 Pakistan political families dynasties institutions democracy VINEETA YADAV Political Families...
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Asian Survey (2020) 60 (3): 557–582.
Published: 01 June 2020
...Yida Zhai Democracy is a contested concept; this article empirically examines how Chinese people understand the concept of democracy in practice when they use this term. Using four rounds of national survey data, we seek to clarify the characteristics of the Chinese people’s perception of democracy...
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Asian Survey (2020) 60 (1): 125–131.
Published: 01 February 2020
... the Hun Sen regime in some respects but contributing to new vulnerabilities. © 2020 by The Regents of the University of California 2020 authoritarianism democracy repression sanctions Cambodia-China relations JOHN D. CIORCIARI Cambodia in 2019 Backing Further into a Corner ABSTRACT In 2019...
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Asian Survey (2020) 60 (1): 204–206.
Published: 01 February 2020
... is a concern. © 2020 by The Regents of the University of California 2020 democracy stability unemployment equality border Bhutan RICHARD W. WHITECROSS Bhutan in 2019 A Change in Government ABSTRACT Bhutan in 2019 was dominated by the change of government in late 2018, better diplomatic...
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Asian Survey (2019) 59 (5): 769–794.
Published: 01 October 2019
..., Indonesia, democracy IN RECENT YEARS, POPULISTS HAVE increasingly won elections around the world. From Italy to Brazil, from the Philippines to the United States, politicians promising to dismantle the existing political order in the name of the people have successfully tapped into widespread...
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Asian Survey (2018) 58 (4): 726–746.
Published: 01 August 2018
... may not contribute well to achieve the SDGs by 2030. KEYWORDS: sustainable, development, Sri Lanka, good governance, democracy INTRODUCTION A major change occurred in Sri Lankan politics in 2015, when President Mahinda Rajapaksa was defeated by his own minister of health, Maithripala Sirisena...
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Asian Survey (2018) 58 (1): 120–126.
Published: 01 February 2018
...Sree Padma Sri Lanka’s 69-year-old parliamentary democracy continues with power concentrated at the center, and consequently, the country’s non-Sinhala-Buddhist minorities on the periphery continue to press for equal rights, while ethnic strife hinders prospects for unified progress. Maithripala...
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Asian Survey (2018) 58 (1): 138–141.
Published: 01 February 2018
... for 2018), the 12th Five-Year Development Plan (2018 23), and the golden jubilee of the establishment of diplomatic relations with India. A military standoff between China and India on Bhutan s border highlighted the kingdom s strategic regional position. KEYWORDS: monarchy, democracy, planning, happiness...
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Asian Survey (2017) 57 (6): 1032–1057.
Published: 01 December 2017
... and factionalism explains the persistence of the electoral democracy in Mongolia. The article focuses on the internal politics of the Democratic Party. 2017 democracy elections party politics patronage clientelism Mongolia SERGEY RADCHENKO AND MENDEE JARGALSAIKHAN Mongolia in the 2016 17 Electoral...
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Asian Survey (2017) 57 (4): 716–737.
Published: 01 August 2017
... the peace process. It elaborates six ways that liberalization has influenced the quest for peace. © 2017 by The Regents of the University of California 2017 Myanmar Burma authoritarianism democracy peace ALEXANDER DUKALSKIS Myanmar s Double Transition Political Liberalization and the Peace...
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Asian Survey (2017) 57 (1): 135–141.
Published: 01 February 2017
... war on drugs, and could affect the geostrategic rivalry between the US and China. © 2017 by The Regents of the University of California 2017 alliance territorial dispute drug war human rights democracy peace talks CAROLINA G. HERNANDEZ The Philippines in 2016 The Year That Shook...
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Asian Survey (2017) 57 (1): 165–172.
Published: 01 February 2017
... the state’s institutions onto the streets. Additionally burdened by economic uncertainty and rising regional tensions over the South China Sea, Indonesian democracy thus continues to be vulnerable, its outward stability notwithstanding. © 2017 by The Regents of the University of California 2017...
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Asian Survey (2016) 56 (5): 833–858.
Published: 01 October 2016
... with ethnic Malay social demand. This, rather than the commonly suggested electoral gerrymander, prevents partisan turnovers because opposition parties, tied to the same congruence, offer no strategic gains to alter the status quo. KEYWORDS: Malaysia, democracy, ethnocentrism, power, Islamization...
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Asian Survey (2016) 56 (5): 931–957.
Published: 01 October 2016
... identity pattern reveals itself to be more complicated than simply a choice between unification with China and independence. © 2016 by the Regents of the University of California 2016 Taiwan identity democracy unification independence FRANK CHENG-SHAN LIU Taiwanese Voters Political...