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Department of Political and Social Change · ANU College of Asia and the Pacific
This course discusses the current state of democracy in Southeast Asia, using elections as a hermeneutical instrument to evaluate the political character of the region's nation states. By analysing the role elections play in selected Southeast Asian states, the course provides a comprehensive overview of the various types of political systems that exist in the region. In addition, the course assesses the quality of civil, political and human rights in each country, highlighting the interplay between sociopolitical citizen rights and the competitiveness, freedom and fairness of elections. With this, the course adds to the comparative debate on the quality of democracy and electoral systems around the world.
Students taking this course are expected to attend one 2-hour lecture and one 1-hour tutorial, with an equivalent amount of reading and preparation time each week. Other Information This is a co-taught course. Any cap on enrolments in one course applies to both courses combined.
Larry Diamond and Mark F. Plattner (eds) (2006). Electoral Systems and Democracy, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.