FREEDMAN Amy L <br/><br/>
Consolidation or withering away of democracy ? political changes in Thailand and Indonesia/ 
Amy L. Freedman 
 -  2007 
<br/><br/> This article argues that democracy has been weakly consolidated in Indonesia and that Thailand has slid further from democracy.  The following questions asks in this article what has happened since the crisis abated? Have changes been institutionalized or consolidated? why and why not? The answer to these questions:  several factors that impact political change are examined: the role of external pressures, international monetary fund, pressure from US policies to combat terrorism, internal pressures from civil society, military and elite cooperation. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>THAILAND--POLITICS<br/>INDONESIA--POLITICS<br/>DEMOCRACY