Dr. Liam Gammon

Biography

I am a political scientist broadly interested in the relationships that design political institutions and the quality of democracy in Southeast Asia, especially Indonesia. I completed my PhD in the Department of Political and Social Change at the Australian National University's Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs. My current work involves a book manuscript based on my thesis, which investigated Indonesia's electoral system and the safeguards for systemic roles of political parties influenced by the personalization of politics that emerged from the constitutional shift towards presidentialism around 2002–2004. I have maintained a long involvement with New Mandala, an ANU-based Southeast Asian studies website, serving as an editor from 2022 to present and previously as co-editor of the site's Indonesia section from 2014. I sit on the editorial board of the East Asia Forum, which is based at the East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER), and I contribute research to an ongoing project focused on the political economy of economic integration within the framework of the Southeast Asia Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP).

Research Interests