Routledge handbook of Southeast Asian democratization / edited by William Case.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Democracy's mixed fortunes in Southeast Asia: torpor, change, and tradeoffs / William Case -- Dead idea (still) walking: the legacy of the Asian democracy and values debate / Mark R. Thompson -- Democratization & human rights in Southeast Asia / Sorpong Peou -- ASEAN, regionalism and democracy / Mark Beeson and Kelly Gerard -- The global context of regime change / Thomas B. Pepinsky -- Demystifying people power: an elite interpretation of democratization in Southeast Asia / Yuki Fukuoka -- The middle class and democracy in Southeast Asia / Aim Sinpeng and Aries A. Arugay -- Conflict, oppositional spaces and political representation in Southeast Asia / Garry Rodan -- Civil society and democratisation in Southeast Asia: what is the connection? / Meredith L. Weiss -- Ethnicity and democracy / Joel Sawat Selway -- Islam and political democracy / Robert W. Hefner -- Women and democracy in Southeast Asia / Susan Blackburn -- Hype or hubris? the political impact of the internet and social networking in Southeast Asia / Jason Abbott -- Electoral systems in Southeast Asia / Benjamin Reilly -- Rethinking party system institutionalization in Southeast Asia and beyond / Allen Hicken and Erik Martinez Kuhonta -- Democracy, hybridity, and accountability in Southeast Asia's legislatures / William Case -- Courts and judicialization in Southeast Asia / Bjoern Dressel -- Democracy, the rule of law and governance in Southeast Asia / Natasha Hamilton-Hart -- Money politics: patronage and clientelism in Southeast Asia / Edward Aspinall -- Southeast Asian militaries in the age of democratization: from ruler to servant / Aurel Croissant -- Can the Philippines' wild oligarchy be tamed? / Nathan Gilbert Quimpo -- Democracy in Thailand: theory and practice / Federico Ferrara -- Indonesia: democratic consolidation and stagnation under Yudhoyono, 2004-2014 / Marcus Mietzner -- Singapore: from hegemonic to competitive authoritarianism / Stephan Ortmann -- Malaysia: pseudo-democracy and the making of a Malay-Islamic state / James Chin -- Myanmar: transition, praetorian politics, and the prospects for democratic change / Renaud Egreteau -- Democracy and Vietnam / Benedict J. Tria Kerkvliet.

"Southeast Asia, an economically dynamic and strategically vital region, seemed until recently to be transiting to more democratic politics. This progress has suddenly stalled or even gone into reverse, requiring that analysts seriously rethink their expectations and theorizing. The Routledge Handbook of Southeast Asian Democratization provides the first book-length account of the reasons for democracy's declining fortunes in the region today. Combining theory and case studies, it is structured in four major sections: - Stunted Trajectories and Unhelpful Milieus - Wavering Social Forces - Uncertain Institutions - Country cases and democratic guises. This interdisciplinary reference work addresses topics including the impact of belief systems, historical records, regional and global contexts, civil society, ethnicity, women, Islam, and social media. The performance of political institutions is also assessed, and the volume offers a series of in-depth case studies, evaluating the country records of particular democratic, hybrid, and authoritarian regimes from a democratization perspective"-- Provided by publisher.