{"id":30143,"date":"2021-12-09T11:00:34","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T03:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/?p=30143"},"modified":"2021-12-09T12:47:09","modified_gmt":"2021-12-09T04:47:09","slug":"opposing-power-building-opposition-alliances-in-electoral-autocracies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/2021\/12\/09\/opposing-power-building-opposition-alliances-in-electoral-autocracies\/","title":{"rendered":"Opposing Power: Building Opposition Alliances in Electoral Autocracies"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Assistant Professor Elvin Ong (NUS Department of Political Science) will soon be releasing a book with the University of Michigan Press, as part of the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies series, titled Opposing Power: Building Opposition Alliances in Electoral Autocracies.<\/em> The book argues that opposition party leaders\u2019 perceptions of regime vulnerability and inter-party dependency shape their efforts and attempts to construct opposition alliances. To illustrate his argument, Asst Prof Ong uses two pairs of case study comparisons in East and Southeast Asia \u2013 \u00a0the Philippines and South Korea in the late 1980s, and Malaysia and Singapore from 1965 to 2020. Drawing on a broad range of archival material and fieldwork, he explains how sharing information about the relative strengths and weaknesses of different opposition parties of a regime may foster recognition of their mutual dependency and encourage leaders to work together to achieve joint victories. This is especially the case after regime-debilitating events which affect the incumbent within a short period of time, as they tend to raise opposition expectations of impending victory and galvanize efforts for inter-party coordination.<\/p>\n

Pre-order the book here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Assistant Professor Elvin Ong (NUS Department of Political Science) will soon be releasing a book with the University of Michigan Press, as part of the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies series, titled Opposing Power: Building Opposition Alliances in Electoral Autocracies. The book argues that opposition party leaders\u2019 perceptions of regime vulnerability and inter-party dependency shape […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":30158,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4529],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30143"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30159,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30143\/revisions\/30159"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}