Making Sense of the Myanmar and Thai Elections: Complicated Processes, Fraught Results

Joel Sawat Selway (Ph.D. 2009, University of Michigan) is a Thai-British associate professor of political science at Brigham Young University. He has published extensively on Thai politics, including a Cambridge University Press book Coalitions of the Wellbeing (2015) analyzing the politics of the 30-baht scheme, an edited volume with University of Michigan Press Regional Movements and Identity Demands in Developing Democracies (2024), plus over 30 journal articles and book chapters on subjects ranging from the politics of health in Thailand, Thai elections and electoral reform, ethnic inequality in Thailand, Thaksin and populism, regionalism in Lanna, Thai nationalism, and Buddhism and politics. He has recently completed two book manuscripts: a solo-authored work on regionalism in Thailand and a co-authored volume on Thai nationalism (with Jacob Ricks, Singapore Management University). He is the co-founder and managing editor of ThaiDataPoints, an academic blog on Thai politics dedicated to the application of transparent methodological and theoretical analysis of current events in Thailand.
Dr. Kyaw Yin Hlaing is the Chairman of the Myanmar Scholars Network and a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), Singapore. He has been actively involved in community peace-building initiatives across various regions of Myanmar and possesses extensive experience in conducting research on Myanmar politics.

Meredith Weiss is a professor of Political Science, focusing on the comparative politics of Southeast Asia, at the University at Albany, SUNY. She is also the director of the SUNY/CUNY Southeast Asia Consortium.

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