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SUMMARY:Authoritarian Gatekeepers and the Institutional Decay of Democracy in Asia
LOCATION:Sala de Comisiones
DESCRIPTION:This panel examines how emotional, institutional, and legal mec
 hanisms sustain democratic erosion across Thailand, South Korea, and Japan,
  offering a timely intervention into the study of right-wing politics and a
 uthoritarian resilience in Asia. It explores three key dimensions: affect t
 heory and comparative authoritarianism, conservative adaptation and politic
 al brokerage, and the intersection of politics, law, and humanitarian ethic
 s.Waraporn Ruangsri analyzes how gendered memories and rural experiences of
  state violence in northern Thailand reinforce political conservatism. Praj
 ak Kongkirati highlights Bhumjaithai’s “pragmatic royalism” as a model of a
 daptive conservatism through local patronage and institutional capture. Tyr
 ell Haberkorn examines lèse majesté prosecutions as legal gatekeeping, whil
 e Yoojin Lim investigates how conservatism in South Korea and Japan shapes 
 selective humanitarianism.Together, the papers reveal how Asia’s authoritar
 ian gatekeepers transform democracy, justice, and humanitarianism across mu
 ltiple scales of political life.
URL:https://euroseas2026.org/panels/authoritarian-gatekeepers-and-the-institutional-decay-of-democracy-in-asia
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