Publisher's Synopsis
This book presents a new organizing framework for studying democratic recession and autocratization in Southeast Asia. By introducing a new concept, "democratic backlash," the book details how democratic recession inevitably provokes resistance that often forms the nucleus of new democratic movements, and in doing so, argues that it is important to identify these reverse trends that may eventually become dominant.
Chapter authors are experts on Southeast Asia, a region that has experienced democratic recession and autocratization in a variety of ways, from rising populism to military coups.
