The Street and the Ballot Box: Interactions Between Social Movements and Electoral Politics in Authoritarian Contexts

Lynette Ong’s new book, The Street and the Ballot Box examines the 2018 Malaysian election and a range of cases from other authoritarian regimes across Asia, Eastern Europe, and Africa. Ong explores a broad-based social movement that champions a grievance shared by a wide segment of the population can build alliances across society and opposition elites that, despite the rules of the game rigged against them, vote the incumbents out of power.