[Recording] Opposing Power: Building Opposition Alliances in Electoral Autocracies

Recorded 9.22.22

Elvin Ong, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the National University of Singapore discusses his new book, Opposing Power, with Meredith Weiss, Professor of Political Science at SUNY, Albany. Drawing on two paired comparisons of the Philippines and South Korea in the 1980s alongside Malaysia and Singapore from 1965-2020, the book develops a new theory to explain how, why, and when opposition parties build alliances to compete against dominant incumbents.