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Nearly everyone votes in Asia. How can democracies be ‘incomplete?’ The simple answer is: elections alone do not consolidated democracies make. Creating a broadly accepted means of choosing and maintaining a government ‘of the people, by the people, and for the people’ can be a long, contentious, reversible, and sometimes violent process requiring the development of both civic norms (at the popular level) and an accepted division of power among elites.
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See Alfred W. McCoy (Ed.), 1999. An anarchy of Families: State and Family in the Philippines. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press.
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Dore, G.M.D., Jackson, K.D. (2014). Introduction. In: Dore, G.M.D., Ku, J.H., Jackson, K.D. (eds) Incomplete Democracies in the Asia-Pacific. Critical Studies of the Asia-Pacific Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137397508_1
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