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UID:euroseas-2022-civil-society-and-democratic-decline-in-southeast-asia-1
SUMMARY:Civil Society and Democratic Decline in Southeast Asia (1)
LOCATION:Room 3.02
DESCRIPTION:Although the number of formal democracies has gradually increas
 ed in Southeast Asia since the 1980s, scholars simultaneously note a discon
 certing trend of democratic regression or failure to consolidate. Both Indo
 nesia and the Philippines have experienced serious democratic backsliding, 
 for instance, democracy in Myanmar has broken down completely, Thailand rem
 ains on a rollercoaster of democratization and autocratization, Malaysia se
 ems unable to complete a democratic transition, and Cambodia’s feeble democ
 racy has collapsed into hardening autocracy. Academic analyses of these reg
 imes and their status tend to highlight structural features such as electio
 ns, as well as leadership – particularly with the crowd-propelled ascent of
  populist leaders such as the Philippines’ Rodrigo Duterte. Such foca
 l points home in on forces that might exert horizontal or vertical accounta
 bility: institutional and electoral checks on anti-democratic tendencies. E
 qually important, yet less commonly addressed, are sources of diagonal acco
 untability, or how specifically such extrainstitutional domains as civil so
 ciety and media might help to interdict, or fail to take action\nagainst, d
 emocratic decline. \n\nThis double panel looks at how civil society in Sout
 heast Asia has reacted to episodes of democratic backsliding and autocratiz
 ation. Panelists will address specifically how civil societal organizations
  and actors – from NGOs, to trade unions, to student associations, to indep
 endent media – have reacted to executive aggrandizement, the hollowing out 
 of electoral and judicial platforms, and shrinking safe space for autonomou
 s political participation in those states in the region that have completed
  or attempted transitions to democracy: Panelists will explore the extent t
 o which civil society acts as a firewall against democratic decline or auto
 cratization in one Southeast Asian state, framing their investigation in th
 eoretically engaged terms – including when other civil society organisation
 s exert countervailing, anti-democratic pressure. In their papers, they wil
 l identify agents and mechanisms of diagonal accountability: how, and under
  what conditions, can civil societal actors succeed in halting or slowing p
 rocesses of democratic erosion, and when do these efforts fail? And to what
  extent, and in what ways, can this sort of accountability supplement or st
 and in for debilitated institutional and electoral accountability mechanism
 s?
URL:https://euroseas2022.org/panels/civil-society-and-democratic-decline-in-southeast-asia
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220701T090000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220701T103000
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UID:euroseas-2022-civil-society-and-democratic-decline-in-southeast-asia-2
SUMMARY:Civil Society and Democratic Decline in Southeast Asia (2)
LOCATION:Room 3.02
DESCRIPTION:Although the number of formal democracies has gradually increas
 ed in Southeast Asia since the 1980s, scholars simultaneously note a discon
 certing trend of democratic regression or failure to consolidate. Both Indo
 nesia and the Philippines have experienced serious democratic backsliding, 
 for instance, democracy in Myanmar has broken down completely, Thailand rem
 ains on a rollercoaster of democratization and autocratization, Malaysia se
 ems unable to complete a democratic transition, and Cambodia’s feeble democ
 racy has collapsed into hardening autocracy. Academic analyses of these reg
 imes and their status tend to highlight structural features such as electio
 ns, as well as leadership – particularly with the crowd-propelled ascent of
  populist leaders such as the Philippines’ Rodrigo Duterte. Such foca
 l points home in on forces that might exert horizontal or vertical accounta
 bility: institutional and electoral checks on anti-democratic tendencies. E
 qually important, yet less commonly addressed, are sources of diagonal acco
 untability, or how specifically such extrainstitutional domains as civil so
 ciety and media might help to interdict, or fail to take action\nagainst, d
 emocratic decline. \n\nThis double panel looks at how civil society in Sout
 heast Asia has reacted to episodes of democratic backsliding and autocratiz
 ation. Panelists will address specifically how civil societal organizations
  and actors – from NGOs, to trade unions, to student associations, to indep
 endent media – have reacted to executive aggrandizement, the hollowing out 
 of electoral and judicial platforms, and shrinking safe space for autonomou
 s political participation in those states in the region that have completed
  or attempted transitions to democracy: Panelists will explore the extent t
 o which civil society acts as a firewall against democratic decline or auto
 cratization in one Southeast Asian state, framing their investigation in th
 eoretically engaged terms – including when other civil society organisation
 s exert countervailing, anti-democratic pressure. In their papers, they wil
 l identify agents and mechanisms of diagonal accountability: how, and under
  what conditions, can civil societal actors succeed in halting or slowing p
 rocesses of democratic erosion, and when do these efforts fail? And to what
  extent, and in what ways, can this sort of accountability supplement or st
 and in for debilitated institutional and electoral accountability mechanism
 s?
URL:https://euroseas2022.org/panels/civil-society-and-democratic-decline-in-southeast-asia
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220701T123000
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