Asia's Hybrid Dynasties

Thompson, Mark R.

doi:10.1080/03068374.2012.682366

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“…Hereditary politicians or political dynasties are not unique to Japan, featuring in both Western and Asian democracies (see Thompson 2012). Yet Japan is noteworthy because of the marked increase in the number of such politicians from the 1980s (Krauss and Pekkanen 2011, 43-44).…”

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The Afterlives of Post-War Japanese Prime Ministers

Dobson

Rose

2018

Journal of Contemporary Asia

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The Afterlives of Post-War Japanese Prime Ministers

Dobson

Rose

2018

Journal of Contemporary Asia

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“…Political dynasties have, however, not been confined to the group of clear-cut cases of autocracy, such as North Korea (see Hakjoon, 2015) or most countries in the Arab world (see Billingsley, 2009). Empirically, cases of ‘kin selection’ at the level of executive politics have been widespread throughout Latin America and, in particular, Asia (see, for example, Purdey, 2016; Querubin, 2016; Ruud and Nielsen, 2018; Thompson, 2012). In many hybrid regimes, the daughters or wives of power holders have featured at least as prominently in the succession game as male family members, which has not been by sheer coincidence.…”

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Leadership succession in politics: The democracy/autocracy divide revisited

Helms

2020

The British Journal of Politics and International Relations

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Leadership succession marks a truly ubiquitous phenomenon with manifold and wide-ranging implications, which explains the major attention that issues of succession have received in the international literature. Most contributions to the field continue, however, to focus on political succession in either democratic or non-democratic regimes. This article develops an integrated perspective on key aspects of leadership succession at the level of political chief executives in democracies and autocracies. A comparative assessment across time and space reveals several features that challenge established notions, and stereotypes, of leadership succession in democratic and autocratic regimes. The empirical ambivalences identified suggest that the way leaders come to and fall from power should be made a more explicit part of conceptualisations of political regimes, and comparative evaluations of their respective democratic quality.

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“…Comparably, in his comparative studies of national-level dynasties in Southeast and East Asia, Mark Thompson made the argument that dynasties were indeed also about networks, or what he with reference to Thailand called ‘network monarchy’: Though a loosely organized, informal institutional arrangement, the ‘network monarchy’ has allowed conservative forces in Thailand, chiefly the military but also leading industrialists and other members of the countries’ conservative circles, to coordinate their activities and avoid divisions that could weaken their influence. (Thompson, 2012, p. 209)…”

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“…Though a loosely organized, informal institutional arrangement, the ‘network monarchy’ has allowed conservative forces in Thailand, chiefly the military but also leading industrialists and other members of the countries’ conservative circles, to coordinate their activities and avoid divisions that could weaken their influence. (Thompson, 2012, p. 209)…”

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Political Dynasticism: Networks, Trust, Risk

Ruud

Nielsen

2018

Studies in Indian Politics

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Political dynasticism is a persuasive phenomenon in South Asia. Yet, while political dynasticism has received ample attention at the national level, it has been almost systematically overlooked at the regional and local levels. In this article, we argue that political dynasticism at the local level is driven by conditions that are in crucial ways different from those that animate national politics. We use case studies and insights from the available literature both within and beyond South Asia to argue that, in a comparative light, three main elements stand out: reciprocity, trust, and failure. By zooming in on these elements we seek to explain political dynasticism as a political phenomenon that is enabled by particular conditions in the polity, and especially the nature of the state. These, we argue, help foment a dynamic within which political dynasticism is an understandable outcome.

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Asia's Hybrid Dynasties

Cited by 18 publications

References 4 publications

The Afterlives of Post-War Japanese Prime Ministers

The Afterlives of Post-War Japanese Prime Ministers

Leadership succession in politics: The democracy/autocracy divide revisited

Political Dynasticism: Networks, Trust, Risk

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