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Civil society's inconsistent liberalism in Southeast Asia: exercising accountability along differing diagonals
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Abstract Predating but intensifying with the public health and economic crises COVID-19 sparked has been a political one, of democratic decline or autocratic consolidation, across much of Southeast Asia. Concerned actors and organisations from civil society have acted as firewalls against democratic decline ... mehr
Predating but intensifying with the public health and economic crises COVID-19 sparked has been a political one, of democratic decline or autocratic consolidation, across much of Southeast Asia. Concerned actors and organisations from civil society have acted as firewalls against democratic decline or autocratisation, even as fellow civil society organisations (CSOs) have exerted countervailing, anti-democratic pressure. Indeed, CSOs may be no more progressive than the state, nor fully autonomous from it, and may be debilitatingly fragmented or polarised. And yet across the region, CSOs still disrupt regimes' would-be panoptic scrutiny and authority, by presenting alternative spaces and premises for mobilisation and voice, through a range of modalities. Regardless of their ideological stance, CSOs' political engagement represents the promise or exercise of diagonal accountability. This check interacts with vertical and horizontal dimensions and retains the potential for meaningful intervention - but need not pull in a liberal direction.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Südostasien; Zivilgesellschaft; Liberalismus; Autoritarismus; Demokratie; Defizit; politische Krise; politische Partizipation
Klassifikation
politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
Freie Schlagwörter
Gesellschaftliche Vereinigung; Politische Beteiligung; Politischer Wandel; Verhältnis Gesellschaft - Staat; Verhältnis gesellschaftliche Vereinigung - Staat
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2023
Seitenangabe
S. 308-327
Zeitschriftentitel
Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, 42 (2023) 3
ISSN
1868-4882
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)