Elvin Ong

TL;DR: In this paper, a survey experiment in Malaysia finds that opposition voters overwhelmingly express pretreatment support for the opposition coalition and when exposed to a treatment vignette about which member party might lead the next government, many voters retract their support.

TL;DR: The role of constituency service in an authoritarian regime is investigated in this paper, where the authors argue that meet-the-people sessions (MPS) is a complementary institution that can serve to mitigate the weaknesses of other authoritarian institutions, thereby entrenching authoritarianism, rather than serve as a form of democratic representation.

TL;DR: In this paper, the cognitive complexity of electoral manipulation and the form of opposition organization explain divergent contestation and reform trajectories in Southeast Asian electoral authoritarian regimes, and the type of electoral reform pivots on whether opposition power is concentrated in one veto player or dispersed among multiple actors.

TL;DR: This article found that alumni from four de facto segregated secondary schools do have less ethnically diverse social networks than their peers from comparable but integrated schools, even years after graduation, despite the multitude of intrusive public policies designed to induce inter-ethnic integration beyond the education system in Singapore.

TL;DR: In this paper, a simple expected utility model of self-censorship is proposed, arguing that citizens will more likely self-censor when the expected costs of online political expression outweigh its benefits.