TY - BOOK AU - Morgenbesser,Lee TI - Behind the façade: elections under authoritarianism in Southeast Asia SN - 9781438462899 AV - JQ750 .B445 2016 PY - 2016/// CY - Albany PB - State University of New York Press KW - Elections KW - Southeast Asia KW - Case studies KW - Authoritarianism KW - Cambodia KW - Burma KW - Singapore KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; List of Figures and Tables ; Note on Terms; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; The Puzzle of Authoritarian Elections; Chapter 1: Elections under Authoritarianism; Approaches to Elections; Democratization; Liberal Peace-Building; Authoritarian Institutions; Behind the Façade: A Theoretical Framework; Information; Legitimation; Management; Neopatrimonialism; Functional Dynamics; Authoritarian Regimes: Actors and Preferences; Dictators; Political Elites; Citizens; Opposition; Liberal and Illiberal Powers; Case Selection; Value of Cases; Plan of the Book; Chapter 2: CambodiaIntroduction; A Brief History of Neopatrimonialism in Cambodia; Saving the State: The CPP's Counterreform Agenda; Administrative Control; Financial Control; Political Control; Elections: Actors and Dynamics; Patron Group; Client Group; Conclusion; Latent Functions?; Implications for Cambodia; Chapter 3: Myanmar (Burma); Introduction; The Soviet Model Comes to Burma; Strategy I: Ideology; Strategy II: Party; Strategy III: Mass Organizations; Elections under the BSPP; Fury of the Storm: The 1990 Election; Pre-Election; The Election; Postelection; The 2010 Election: A Patient TransitionDomestic Legitimation: A New Constitution; International Legitimation: ASEAN; Pre-Election; The Election; Military Hand-Back and an Election Tsunami; Reforming Myanmar: A Concentrated Approach; A Planned (and Partial) Political Hand-Back; Myanmar's Red Dawn Election; Conclusion; Latent Functions?; Implications for Myanmar; Chapter 4: Singapore; Introduction; Faux Democracy and Mandate Elections; The Formative Path to Legitimation; Election Timing; Power by Invitation: Self-Renewal under the PAP; Self-Renewal in Theory; Self-Renewal in Practice; ConclusionLatent Functions?; Implications for Singapore; Conclusion; Summary of Theory and Cases; Information; Legitimation; Management; Neopatrimonialism; Elections and Authoritarianism in Southeast Asia; Variation I: Closed Authoritarianism with Military or Monarchy Rule; Variation II: Hegemonic Authoritarianism with Single-Party Rule; Variation III: Competitive Authoritarianism with Single-Party Rule; Implications of Findings: Approaches to Elections; Democratization; Liberal Peace-Building; Authoritarian Institutions; Appendix 1: Authoritarian Regimes (2015); Appendix 2: Regime Classification of Selected CasesAppendix 3: Mandate Claims by Singapore's PAP Coding of General Elections; Coding of Mandate Claims; Coding of General Elections; 1963 (Event Response)-Claimant:; 1968 (Event Response)-Claimant:; 1972 (Reward Collection)-Claimant:; 1976 (Event Response)-Claimant:; 1980 (Policy Execution)-Claimant:; 1984 (Event Response)-Claimant:; 1988 (Policy Execution)-Claimant:; 1991 (Event Response, Policy Execution)-Claimant:; 1997 (Event Response, Policy Execution)-Claimant:; 2001 (Event Response)-Claimant; 2; b UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1353031&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -