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Asia Watch
[JCA] The Rise of Authoritarian Statism in Indonesia and the Crisis of Crisis Management
Volume 56, Issue 3, July 2026, Page 349-377 .
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[JCA] The Return of Authoritarian Neo-Liberalism in Indonesia?
Volume 56, Issue 3, July 2026, Page 378-406 .
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Asia Watch
[JCA] The Rise of Authoritarian Statism in Indonesia and the Crisis of Crisis Management
Volume 56, Issue 3, July 2026, Page 349-377 .
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[JCA] What Has Happened to the Poster Child: Is South Korean Democracy Backsliding?
Soo Hyun Lee and Timo Fleckenstein challenge the 'democratic backsliding' framing for South Korea, proposing instead the concept of a 'democratic rollercoaster' — significant advances under progressive administrations followed by sharp regression under right-wing governments. The root cause, they ar
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[JCA] The Return of Authoritarian Neo-Liberalism in Indonesia?
Moch Faisal Karim and Muhammad Kholid argue that Joko Widodo's authoritarian tendencies were not driven by personal power ambition but by the functional requirements of implementing a neo-liberal economic agenda. Through recentralisation of regulatory authority and weakening of legislative oversight
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[JCA] The Rise of Authoritarian Statism in Indonesia and the Crisis of Crisis Management
Trissia Wijaya applies Poulantzas's concept of 'authoritarian statism' and introduces the 'politics of disincorporation' to explain Indonesia's democratic turn under Jokowi. She argues that authoritarian statism — masked as technocratic populism — emerged as the state's response to crises of capital
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[JCA] China's Climate Policy: Transition, Governance, and the Limits of Authoritarian Environmentalism
A book review by Geoffrey C. Chen (Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University) of Alex Y. Lo and Chen Xiang's Edward Elgar monograph on China's climate governance. The review highlights the book's framework — deploying authoritarian environmentalism, the centralised developmental state, and ecological civi
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