Andreas Ufen

Political Parties in Southeast Asia

Chapter in Edited Volume | 2023


  • Abstract

    This chapter concentrates on major themes in the literature on party politics in Southeast Asia, particularly in Indonesia, Malaysia, East Timor, the Philippines and Thailand. It differentiates between parties and party systems according to their rootedness in social milieus on the one hand and the predominance of clientelistic networks on the other hand. It also identifies certain commonalities of party politics in these countries: a weakness of party organisation; the absence of a political left; a flawed party financing; and floating institutional orders. It concludes with a view on existing gaps in the literature, particularly referring to a lack of comparative analysis and of research grounded in the cutting-edge literature on party politics.

    Published in

    The Routledge Handbook of Political Parties

    Editor(s)

    Neil Carter

    Dan Keith

    Gyda Sindre

    Sofia Vasilopoulou

    Publisher

    Routledge

    Volume

    1

    Pages

    371-381

    ISBN

    9780429263859

    Location

    London

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