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Why Democracy Has Failed in Thailand

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Oct 19, 2018
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Democracy seems to have made a certain amount of headway in Southeast Asia which, despite its dismal performance from the 1950s through the 1980s, has managed to shake off deep-rooted authoritarianism to embark upon an uncertain path towards genuine democracy.

Leading the pack is Malaysia, whose institutions benefitted from its British legacy and which u…

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