Between Consolidation and Crisis Elections and Democracy in Five Nations in Southeast Asia

Between Consolidation and Crisis focuses on five countries in Southeast Asia to examine how their elections have been conducted in the past two years, their domestic implications, and how the elections have differed from one another and from elections in other parts of Asia. Case studies on Cambodia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia and Thailand provide an overall understanding of the impact of elections on the consolidation or crisis of new democratic and semi-democratic policies in the region of Southeast Asia. Aurel Croissant is professor at the Department of Political Science at the University of Heidelberg (Germany). Beate Martin is a researcher at the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation in Bonn (Germany).