Elections An analysis of President Tsai’s victory in the presidential primary June 26, 2019 0 Written by Timothy S. Rich. Image Credit: Thierry Ehrmann/Flickr; Licence CC BY 2.0. On Thursday 13 June 2019 Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen won the Democratic Progressive Party’s…
Asia From ‘party-centric’ to ‘nation-centric’ democracy in Pakistan June 17, 2019 2 Written by Maryam Mastoor. Image Credit: Wasif Malik /Flickr, Licence CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Following the elections of 2018, this marks the second time since 1958 that Pakistan…
Civil Society The Islamist threat and democratic deconsolidation in Indonesia May 9, 2019 0 Written by Abdil Mughis Mudhoffir. Indonesia has witnessed a rise in Islamic conservatism over the last three decades. This is reflected not only in the…
Culture and Society Neo-traditionalist Islam in Malaysia: Neither Salafi nor traditionalist May 8, 2019 0 Written by Ahmad Fauzi Abdul Hamid. At times, labels can be annoying. Yet for political analysts they serve the useful purpose of typifying individuals and…
Asia A shifting paradigm? Politics in India against the backdrop of the parliamentary election May 3, 2019 0 Written by Subrata Mitra. ABSTRACT: The acrimonious electoral campaign of 2019 will be remembered for the spectre of muscular Hinduism locked in battle with multicultural…
Asia Parliamentary elections in Jammu and Kashmir: Will the result be a mosaic? April 29, 2019 2 Written by Navnita Chadha Behera. The Indian parliamentary elections in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) hold special significance amidst the national elections being held for the…
Beef ban Caste calculations and curry leaves: Dalits and the 2019 elections April 17, 2019 1 Written by Hugo Gorringe and Karthikeyan Damodaran. Dalit votes could be decisive in the 2019 general elections in India. One of the pillars of the…
Congress The 2019 Indian General Elections: The consolidation of BJP dominance? April 16, 2019 0 Written by Wilfried Swenden. The race has started, as on 11 April 2019 approximately 900 million Indian voters were called to cast their vote in…
Elections Social media, BJP 2.0 and the 2019 general elections in India April 11, 2019 0 Written by Rashmi Singh. With the 2019 general elections hot on its heels, the Election Commission of India (ECI) has finally been forced to reckon…
Civil society Indonesia’s quest for tolerance: Everyday social media talk and spreading the ‘virus of peace’ March 14, 2019 0 Written by Dayana Lengauer. Tolerance in majority Muslim Indonesia is associated, among other things, with the national motto ‘unity in diversity’, state-recognised religious pluralism, and…
