Week 8-9

Lesson Objective:

To analyse development of Southeast Asian states, how economic devdelopment played its part in regime legitmacy while it blocked process of democratisation. Why electoral politics could not helped Southeast asian countries to qualify democracy

Lesson Key Points

Defining regime legitmacy

Dynamics of development in Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia and its relationship with regime legitmacy, What are social challanges to regimes

Role of BN, PAP and military in respective countries generating authoritrianism

Analysis of Electoral politics

Why democratisation has been blocked.

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