What are three political systems in southeast Asia?

Answer 1

There is quite a mixture of different government styles in Southeast Asia, including the following:

1) "Communist" Leninist States: (Vietnam & Laos) Leninism is the political theory that a single party rules the government and governs all affairs as opposed to individual politicians. Vietnam and Laos are often improperly called Communist countries and the confusion stems from the fact that the single party that rules these countries calls itself the Communist Party. However, these Communist Parties do not practice Communist political theory, but rather state-directed, right-wing economic and political theory.

2) Presidential Republics: (Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia) A Presidential Republic have governments where all citizens over a certain age can vote for political parties that occupy seats in a legislature as well as a President who is the chief executive. While there are issues of fraud and corruption in Presidential Republics in Southeast Asia, they provide their citizens the most straightforward route to choosing their leaders. The level of corruption is substantial enough that these Presidential Republics are are considered to be Illiberal Democracies. This means that while the Presidential Republic looks like a Liberal Democracy on paper with guaranteed voting rights, freedoms of speech and religion, constitutions that bind the authority of the Executive, but these paper rights do not actually exist.

3) Constitutional Monarchies: (Thailand) There are some Kingdoms where the King is constrained by a Constitution and requires a Parliament to pass laws. However, the strength of the Parliament in Thailand is less than European Constitutional monarchies and the politicians are typically considered untrustworthy (while the King is well-received).

4) Monarchic Leninist Hybrid: (Cambodia) This form of government is an unusual hybrid of numbers 1 and 3. There is a king who has some executive authority, but his authority is eclipsed by a separate legislature and executive. However, as opposed to most other constitutional monarchies, the Monarchic Leninist Hybrid does not have a democratically elected parliament or legislature. Instead, it has a single Leninist Party that runs the country.

5) Military Juntas: (Myanmar) Myanmar is organized as Military-Run Governments with the leaders officially styling themselves as Presidents but being perceived as Caudillos. As opposed to the leaders of Illiberal Democracies, even the Constitutions of their countries (which are useless) do not legitimate them in the way that Illiberal Democratic Dictators are legitimated on paper.

6) Absolute Sultanates: (Brunei) There is no difference between a Kingdom and Sultanate except that the rulers have different names (King vs. Sultan). The monarch of an Absolute Sultanate controls their people through direct edicts and typically run a nepotistic government.

Answer 2

There are 11 countries in Southeast Asia each with a different type of government.

Answer 3

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