TY  - JOUR
A1  - Lidauer, Michael
T1  - Democratic dawn? : Civil society and elections in Myanmar 2010 – 2012
T2  - Journal of current Southeast Asian affairs
N2  - While the general elections in Myanmar in November 2010 were widely condemned, both national and international actors approached the by-elections of April 2012 as a political rite-de-passage to improve relations between the government and the opposition inside, and between the former pariah state and the international community outside the country. An undercurrent to the government-led transition process from an authoritarian to a formally more democratic regime was the development of a politically oriented civil society that found ways to engage in the electoral process. This article describes the emerging spaces of election-related civil society activism in the forms of civic and voter education, national election observation, and election-related agency in the media. Noting that, in particular, election observation offers connections for civil society to regional and international debates, the paper draws preliminary conclusions about further developments ahead of the general elections in Myanmar expected for 2015.
KW  - Myanmar
KW  - Burma
KW  - democratisation
KW  - election observation
KW  - media
Y1  - 2012
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/27526
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-275264
UR  - http://hup.sub.uni-hamburg.de/giga/jsaa/article/view/546
SN  - 1868-1034
SN  - 1868-4882
N1  - The Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs is an Open Access publication. It may be read, copied and distributed free of charge according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.
VL  - 31
IS  - 2
SP  - 87
EP  - 114
PB  - Inst. of Asian Studies
CY  - Hamburg
ER  -