CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2022
| Author | YAUNG CHI SOE NAING |
|---|---|
| Title | Ethnic Terrorism And Co-Optation: The Case Of Malaysia And Philippines |
| Summary | In political science research, the studies of terrorism try to explain the phenomenon by looking at the type of political regime. One prominent finding is that partial democracies with factionalism experience more terrorist incidents than the other types of regimes (e.g., full democracies, full autocracies, and partial democracies without factions). By looking at two factional democracies from Southeast Asia, Malaysia and Philippines, this thesis argues that factional democracies do not always experience the same level of terrorist incidents. Malaysia experiences very low level of incidents than Philippines. Malaysia’s experience of terrorism is closer to autocratic regimes within the region than its counterparts. Hence, this thesis explores other factors that can determine the different rates of terrorist incidents between the two cases, and it contends that the ability of state to co-opt factions within the society by policy concessions and promotion of public welfare can convey stable factional democracies with very low level of domestic terrorist incidents. |
| Supervisor | Bogaards, Matthijs |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2022/soe-naing_yaungchi.pdf |
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