Organizers: NYSEAN and NYU Wagner

Description:

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.

Speaker:

Elvin Ong is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the National University of Singapore. He was previously a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Southeast Asia Research, Institute of Asian Research, University of British Columbia. He obtained his PhD in political science from Emory University. His research focuses on political parties in electoral authoritarian hybrid regimes, particularly opposition parties in East and Southeast Asia. His research has been published by numerous disciplinary journals such as the American Journal of Political Science, Party Politics, Government and Opposition, and Electoral Studies, as well as in regional journals such as Contemporary Southeast Asia, the Journal of East Asian Studies, and Asian Survey. He is Chair-Elect of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Malaysia, Singapore, and Brunei (MSB) Studies Group from 2022-2024.

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