1st Edition

Routledge Handbook of Autocratization in Southeast Asia

Edited By Netina Tan, Yuko Kasuya Copyright 2025
410 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

410 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The Routledge Handbook of Autocratization in Southeast Asia examines how global and domestic forces of autocratization affect regional and local politics. It analyzes how the interactions of international and domestic factors affect actors and institutions in both democracies and autocracies in the region. Bringing together a representative slate of both local and international, junior and... Read more

Part I: Sources of Autocratization

1. Introduction to Autocratization in Southeast Asia

Netina Tan and Yuko Kasuya

2. Global Public Governance 

Sorpong Peou

3. China and Autocratization

Alvin Camba and Ray Asada

4. Polarization and Autocratization 

Diego Fossati

5. Digital Authoritarianism 

Netina Tan and Rebecca Lynn Denyer

6. Religion

Kikue Hamayotsu

7. Populist Leaders

Ronald Pernia and Rogelio Alicor L. Panao

8. Monarchy

Kana Inata

9. The Coup Trap 

Terence Lee

Part II: Impact of Autocratization 

10. Democratic Values and Resistance

Kai-Ping Huang and Saiful Mujani

11. Judicial Independence 

Björn Dressel and Cristina Regina Bonoan

12. Parties and Party Systems

Don S. Lee and Fernando Casal Bértoa

13. Ethnic Minorities 

Cassandra Preece and Chun-Ying Wu

14. Gender Equality 

Shan-Jan Sarah Liu

15. Media Freedom

James Gomez

16. Academic Freedom

Sriprapha Petcharamesree

17. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)

Avery Poole

Part III: Country Trends and Patterns

18. Brunei

Naosuke Mukoyama

19. Cambodia

Sokphea Young and Soksamphoas Im

20. Indonesia

Marcus Mietzner

21. Laos

Norihiko Yamada

22. Malaysia  

Saleena Saleem

23. Myanmar

Aye Lei Tun and Ardeth Maung Thawnghmung

24. The Philippines

Justin Keith A. Basquisal and Aries A. Arugay

25. Singapore

Walid Jumblatt Abdullah

26. Thailand

Aim Sinpeng and Itsakul Unahakate

27. Timor-Leste

Rui Graça Feijó and Michael Leach

28. Vietnam

Adam Fforde

Biography

Netina Tan is University Scholar and Associate Professor of Political Science at McMaster University, Canada.

Yuko Kasuya is the Director of the V-Dem Regional Center for East Asia, and a Professor of Political Science at the Faculty of Law, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan.