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Elections as Causes of Democratization: Southeast Asia in Comparative Perspective

DOI: 10.1177/0010414018758763

Keywords: democratization and regime change,elections,Southeast Asia,nondemocratic regimes

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The theory of democratization by elections holds that elections—even when flawed—can, over time, have an independent causal effect on democratic transitions. Despite the recent growth of this literature, questions remain about the global scope of the argument and its structural preconditions. We show that, in Southeast Asia, elections are almost always the culmination rather than the cause of democratization, and use case materials from seven Southeast Asian countries to illustrate the mechanisms that lead from democratization to elections. Our argument has implications both for Southeast Asian democratization and for existing scholarship from other world regions

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