Sustaining Burma’s Hopes for Freedom

The country’s hold on electoral democracy is firm, but its claim still to be a liberal democracy is increasingly dubious.

Despite high hopes for progress toward democracy, the military’s power remains stubbornly entrenched, while Aung San Suu Kyi seems to lack the skills to run the government effectively.

Do democracy and good governance necessarily go hand-in-hand? In most Southeast Asian countries, a gap exists between the two. How should we understand good governance in an authoritarian context? And…