Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia Issue 40
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Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia Issue 40 “Eroding Electoral Integrity: Reasons for Democratic Backsliding in Southeast Asia,” edited by Asian Centre, includes five articles. Each article is available in English, Japanese, Thai, Bahasa Indonesia, Filipino, Vietnamese, and Myanmar on our website.

Contents

Special Issue: Eroding Electoral Integrity: Reasons for Democratic Backsliding in Southeast Asia

Dismantling Myanmar’s Election Integrity: A Post-Coup Review
Sanjay Gathia

How the Constitutional Court Erodes Electoral Integrity in Thailand
Ekmongkhin Puridej

Changing Governments without Elections: Subverting Voter Choice in Malaysia
Lina Sakina Saliman

Undermining the Integrity of Elections in Cambodia
Marc Piñol Rovira

Party Cartels in Indonesia: Towards an Opposition-less Democracy
Kartini Sunityo

Book Reviews

Luka Lei Zhang (ed.), Asian Workers Stories, Brooklyn, NY: Hard Ball Press, 2024.
Jafar Suryomenggolo

Elliott Prasse-Freeman, Rights Refused: Grassroots Activism and State Violence in Myanmar, Stanford University Press, 2023.
Melissa Crouch

Shawna Herzog, Negotiating Abolition: The Anti-slavery Project in British Straits Settlements 1986-1843, Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.
Paul Chambers

Terence Harkin, In the Year of the Rabbit: A Novel, Silkworm Books, 2021.
Hai Hong Nyugeniel

David Harnish, Culture and Identity in the Music Cultures of Lombok Indonesia, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University; Brill, 2021.
Leilani Hermiasih

Trendsetters

Navigating the Complexities: Challenges and Prospects of Collaborative Governance in Thai Local Administration
Grichawat Lowatcharin