Publications

Books

Alderman, Petra. Branding Authoritarian Nations: Political Legitimation and Strategic National Myths in Military-Ruled Thailand. Abingdon: Routledge, 2024. Link.

Journal articles

Alderman, Petra. ‘Authoritarian Electoral Management: Lessons from Thailand.’ Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, online first (July 2023): 1-23. Link

Alderman, Petra and Kristin Eggeling. ‘Vision documents, nation branding and the legitimation of non-democratic regimes.’ Geopolitics, online first (January 2023): 1-31. Link

Desatova, Petra and Saowanee T. Alexander. ‘Electoral Commissions and Non-Democratic Outcomes: Thailand’s Contentious 2019 Election.’ Politics, online first (April 2021): 1-15. Link 

Desatova, Petra. ‘Bangkok: Two Cities.’ Contemporary Southeast Asia 41, no.2 (August 2019): 176-182. Link

Desatova, Petra. ‘Thailand 4.0 and the Internal Focus of Nation Branding.’ Asian Studies Review 42, no.4 (December 2018): 1-19. Link

McCargo, Duncan, Saowanee T. Alexander and Petra Desatova. ‘Ordering Peace: Thailand’s 2016 Constitutional Referendum.’ Contemporary Southeast Asia 39, no.1 (April 2017): 65-95. Link

Book chapters

McCargo, Duncan and Petra Desatova. ‘Thailand: Electoral Intimidation.’ In: Electing Peace: Violence Prevention and Impact at the Polls, edited by Jonas Claes, 63-69. Washington DC: United States Institute of Peace Press, 2016. Link

Policy reports & briefs

Alderman, Petra. ‘Legislative leadership on environmental issues,’ Westminster Foundation for Democracy, November 2022, Link

Alderman, Petra. ‘What we know (and don’t know) about election observation in 2021,’ Election Observation Research Network, February 2022, Link

Alderman, Petra. ‘Research in Brief 3: The importance and implications of electoral commission independence,’ Election Observation Research Network, February 2022, Link