...Ko Maeda This study employs survey data to characterize a new kind of strategic voting behavior in post-2012 Japan. Since the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) returned to power in 2012, it has been winning every national election, while the opposition camp has been fragmented into many parties, none...

...Sahar Shafqat Pakistan began the year with the military establishment having tightened its grip on political institutions, but as the year progressed, opposition parties sought to reassert themselves and challenged both the PTI government and military leaders. Political movements took center stage...

... opposition was also significant by the time military rule ended. In a campaign to pass reforms to better “protect” Buddhism, the incumbents used monks to cast doubt on the NLD’s ability to represent Buddhist interests and to recruit former regime opponents who were nationalists. The incumbents garnered wide...

... Indonesia democracy opposition presidency South China Sea MARCUS MIETZNER Indonesia in 2016 Jokowi s Presidency between Elite Consolidation and Extra-Parliamentary Opposition ABSTRACT During his second year in power, Indonesian President Joko Widodo faced contra- dictory yet interrelated trends...

...Marco Bünte This article argues that Myanmar is experiencing the beginning of a protracted transition, in which the military, the opposition, and the country’s civil society are renegotiating political space. The protracted transition might take decades, and opposition forces and civil society...

...Poh Ping Lee The government of Najib Razak in Malaysia came increasingly under siege in 2015 from within his party, the opposition, and many NGOs. Najib managed to survive, but his hold on power is not solid. Meanwhile, Malaysia’s chairmanship of ASEAN was uneventful, relations with U.S. and China...

...Duncan McCargo During 2014, Cambodia moved from violent confrontation between government and opposition forces to an uneasy compromise. The turning point came in July, when opposition legislators agreed to take their seats in the National Assembly, which they had boycotted. The long-ruling...

... were smoothly conducted. But in an extraordinary scandal, a prominent political advisor went on trial for abetting the murder of his former mistress. © 2008 by The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 2008 elections opposition UMNO corruption Malaysia MALAYSIA...

... history. The end of much misery and famine was, however, the beginning of a lot of self-delusion. © 2007 by The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 2007 development planning opposition power struggle royalists social constraints CAMBODIA IN 2006 Self-Promotion...