Painting Myanmar's Democratic Interlude

Abstract Falsehoods can gravely endanger democratic societies. When disinformation circulates widely, it can alter the outcome of elections, erode trust in democr...

The Interlude at the beginning of Part III functions like a prologue to the chapters that follow. It serves to describe the conditions under which the author conducted fieldwork am...

Abstract The case for a modern democratic humane socialism typically has two parts. The first is that capitalism is bad, at or least not very good. In reaching this ...

We look into the relationship between business practices and enterprise productivity using panel data with matched employer and employee information from Myanmar. The data show tha...

Since the coup conducted by the Myanmar military on 1 February 2021, the military regime has attempted to portray itself as the country’s legitimate government by arguing that it i...

IN 1844, SØREN KIERKEGAARD published a deeply serious book called Philosophical Fragments. After the fourth of five chapters, we find an “interlude” fully a chapter’s length (1985,...

This section introduces the book’s main discussion on the new form of rule and governance which has taken shape in post-junta Myanmar in the first half of the 2010s. Reviewing the ...

This chapter seeks to provide a realistic assessment of the other long-term challenges that continue to plague Myanmar. While many are not necessarily hindering democratization, al...