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SUMMARY:Political Change and Institutional Resilience? Lessons from Southeast Asia
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DESCRIPTION:Myanmar’s rocky road to democratization, Thailand’s on-again, o
 ff-again military rule, Malaysia’s broken election reform promises and the 
 increasing worry of an “illiberal turn” in Indonesia and the Philippines br
 ing forth the issue of institutional quality and institutional resilience. 
 Why is consolidating political change difficult? And, why are change agents
  so promising in making reform ideas during a political transition yet so d
 ismal in delivering them after assuming power? This panel invites discussio
 ns on political change in Thailand, Myanmar, Indonesia, Philippines and Mal
 aysia. The panel hopes to raise few key issues. The first is to probe the e
 xtent of Southeast Asia’s efforts at political change and consolidation. Th
 e second, is to raise the issue of institutional resilience. It hopes to br
 oach the issue of idiosyncratic institutional qualities in Southeast Asian 
 political economy and whether they are crucial in explaining and determinin
 g state’s ability or inability to democratize and consolidate change.
  The panel also hopes to raise debates on the viability of the institutiona
 list argument in explaining the nature of political transitions in selected
  Southeast Asian countries. The panel invites debates on the validity of th
 e institutionalist argument and discussions on ideas of institutionalism an
 d whether concepts like path dependence, increasing returns, and institutio
 nal density are reliable tools to provide answers to issues of democratizat
 ion, political change and consolidation. Another issue that the panel hopes
  to discuss is the role of political agents or political entrepreneurs and 
 the extent to which they are able to provide and sustain change. It wants t
 o tease out the question of whether consolidating change is highly elusive 
 in the Southeast Asian context because change agents are highly invested in
  existing institutional logic. Finally, the panel invites discussions on th
 e need to unpack our understanding of institutional change, that change, pe
 rhaps, might not be transformative over the short run, unidirectional or te
 leological in nature. This panel is intended for a book project. We are hop
 ing that contributors to this panel will be part of the book project.
URL:https://euroseas2024.org/panels/political-change-and-institutional-resilience-lessons-from-southeast-asia
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