Presidentialism and Democracy in East and Southeast Asia examines the impact of presidential systems on democracies by examining three distinct literatures – the perilousness of competing legitimacies of the executive and legislative branches, issues of institutional design (particularly regarding semi-presidentialism), and the rise of executive aggrandizement.
Despite often intense political conflict and temporary instability in the East and Southeast Asia, presidential systems of various types – from relatively "pure" forms to semi-presidentialism and other hybrids – have largely been resilient. Although there are signs of growing autocratization in several cases, presidentialism, associated with both accommodation and conflict, has usually not driven it.
This book’s contributions to presidentialism debates will be of interests to students and scholars of comparative politics while it also offers detailed analysis of the presidency in these East and Southeast Asian cases.
Author(s): Marco Bünte, Mark R. Thompson
Series: Routledge/City University of Hong Kong Southeast Asian Studies
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 186
City: London
Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of tables
Preface and acknowledgements
List of contributors
1 Presidentialism and democracy in East and Southeast Asia: Between resilience and regression
2 South Korea: Presidentialism in historical and sociological perspective
3 The Philippines: Imperiled and imperious presidents (but not perilous presidentialism)
4 Indonesia: Presidential politics and democratic regression
5 Indonesia: Tales of presidentialization
6 Taiwan: The limited but beneficial role of semi-presidentialism
7 Timor-Leste: Semi-presidentialism and the tribulations of a new democracy
8 Myanmar: Hybrid presidentialism and democratic breakdown
Index
