Democracy Trouble in the Blue Camp September 23, 2019 0 Image credit: 韓國瑜市長就職現場 by 文進 葉/ Flickr, license: CC BY-SA 2.0 Written by J. Michael Cole. This article is republished from Taiwan Sentinel. Read the original article. Within a matter…
Civil Society Reforming an ‘evil’ party-list system July 1, 2019 0 Written by Julio C. Teehankee. Image Credit: Election Posters by David Stanley/CC; Licence: CC BY 2.0. At the end of the hotly contested 2019 midterm elections in the Philippines,…
Activism Polarising Dissent: The constructed narrative of Singapore’s new ‘fake news’ law June 10, 2019 0 Written by Howard Lee and Terence Lee. Image Credit: singapore by Matt Madd/Flickr, Licence CC BY 2.0. On 8 May 2019, Singapore passed its fake news legislation.…
Demography Harbingers of democracy May 9, 2019 0 Written by Shubhra Seth and Safa Ameera Rahim. An investment in knowledge pays high dividends for young citizens and it is an important tool for…
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…
Activism Are social media destroying democracy in Southeast Asia? March 14, 2019 0 Written by Ross Tapsell. Recent literature has argued that social media use encourages authoritarianism. Ronald J. Deibert’s January 2019 article in Journal of Democracy argues…
Asia A politics of hope: The new generation of Thai politicians February 22, 2019 0 Written by Thannapat Jarernpanit. Having been postponed four times by the ruling military junta, a general election will be held in Thailand on 24 March…
Cambodia Winning and losing under Hun Sen’s win-win policy January 8, 2019 0 Written by Daniel Bultmann. On 29 December 2018, the Cambodian government officially inaugurated a new monument and museum dedicated to the win-win policy of Prime…
Corruption Challenges to Modi October 8, 2018 0 Diego Maiorano With less than a year before the next general election, India’s Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, is facing the first serious challenge to his…
Elections Party organisation and the state of political parties in India August 17, 2017 1 Written by Dishil Shrimankar. Since independence in 1947, India has maintained a remarkable record of preserving procedural democracy (except a brief interregnum in 1975). A…
