Evidence points to an increasing personalisation of political power by chief executives in recent years. It is often argued that such personalisation contributes to the current trend of autocratisation and the global decline of democracy. Yet our understanding hereof remains fractured, not least...

While the emerging democracies of Southeast Asia still are characterised by legitimacy crises or have already collapsed, a higher level of political stability persists in most of the region's autocracies. In most countries of South-East Asia, however, the state's monopoly on the legitimate use...

Während die jungen Demokratien Südostasiens allesamt durch schwere Legitimitätskrisen gekennzeichnet bzw. bereits kollabiert sind, ist das Stabilitätsniveau zumindest einiger Autokratien der Region anhaltend hoch. Gleichwohl ist das staatliche Gewaltmonopol in den meisten Staaten...