Talk:Politics of Cambodia

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I am interested in religious and political freedom. I would like to be able to use the Wikipedia as a reference to research the type and degree of these freedoms in the various countries of the world.

I hope that KQ, Geronimo and others who are forming a consensus on the article format (or template) will accomodate my research goals.

However, I'm not sure the Cambodia article is suitable for my needs at this point. I want to find out when the Communist dictatorship, which murdered around 2 million of its own country's civilians, came into power. If it went out of power, I would like to know when and how that happened. Is it safe for Christians to visit as tourists? as missionaries?

Another related question is the designation of the form of goverment. Many countries have the phrase democratic republic in their name. Is there any correlation between that phrase and the country's actual form of government? Two decades ago, I was of the opinion that "democratic republic" was usually synonymous with "Communist dictatorship". What I need from the Wikipedia is clear and accurate information on each "democratic republic" country, so that I can test my hypothesis. Please remember that I am not advocating a POV about this issue; rather, I am looking for data against which to check my hypothesis.

Thanks for reading this long rant. What are the committee's plans in regards to this matter? --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor

I hope you're not asking people to do your work for you....In terms of Khmer Rouge and after living in Cambodia for a few years, it's kind of difficult to get detailed information. The reason is that basically no-one really knows all the detailed events that took place bar the major stuff. American (Vietnam) War: US bombed Laos and Cambo heavily (a fact traditionally denied by US) because communist Vietnam soldiers used Laos/Cambo for supply routes. Cambo traditionally has bad relation with Vietnam (and Thailand). Cambo's didn't want Vietnamese in their country, over-threw (a weak) government and went into an agrarian state (cue genocide). Vietnam came in a dis-banded Khmer Rouge. Why do you not get much info about it? Because no one will admit they had anything to do with the decision making AND take a look who is in government (Khmer Rouge weren't killed).

On behalf of the Rest of the World
Don't mean to be controversial here, but why on Earth does this article detail the diplomatic representation between Cambodia and the USA? I would like to point out that there are other countries - in the interests of neutrality, either all of them or none of them should be listed - ThievingGypsy 19:24, 10 Oct 2004 (UTC), London, The 51st State.

I believe the main reason why this article has diplomatic representation between the USA and Cambodia is because the information from this article was taken directly from a United States government data source: the CIA World Factbook. I suppose the original authors of this Wikipedia article didn't believe it was necessary to edit it out. - Aoi 06 Dec 2004

Proposed Rewrite
I'm proposing a major rewrite to this article so it's no longer just one long list. Please see User:Aoi/Politics_of_Cambodia_rewrite (link removed) for the proposal. Please make any suggestions to help improve the proposal, as this is the first time I've written a politics article for Wikipedia. Otherwise, I'm planning to post it here at the end of the week. Thank you! - Aoi

- Rewrite posted - Aoi

Errors?
I just want to point out that the National Assembly has 123 members. Right now it is written with 122, does this exclude the president? If not then it should be 123.

Minor Changes
Made a couple of small changes and removed two links under official - 1 was the Cambodia E-gov site that was already listed and the other was a link to an opinion piece. Aoi, if you are still around I'd be interested in working on the article some more. It could use some cutting down - 2003 national assembly election results? but no other election? - and some additions with a little more NPOV feel. Paxse 16:56, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

External link
Should this site be added? It has questionable authority, I think, but it bears looking at.  Bl a  st  [ improve me ] 04.05.07 0407 (UTC)

Thanks for that link. Very interesting, I've never seen it before. However, it probably belongs over at Khmer Krom rather than here. Paxse 17:11, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

Important notice
The government section of the "Outline of Cambodia" needs to be checked, corrected, and completed -- especially the subsections for the government branches.

When the country outlines were created, temporary data (that matched most of the countries but not all) was used to speed up the process. Those countries for which the temporary data does not match must be replaced with the correct information.

Please check that this country's outline is not in error.

If you have any questions or comments, please contact The Transhumanist.

Thank you.

Lede
In December 2020, Reywas reverted me – – without discussing the appropriate reasons for such reversion on the talk page. The edits restored by the aforementioned editor are particularly unsuitable for the lead as the purpose of this article is to describe the political structure prevalent in the country in constitutional and legal terms (see Politics of Vietnam and Politics of United States as examples). In this context, please see also the last portion of the lede that includes academic references to the works of Levitsky and Way who describe Cambodia as a "competitive authoritarian" regime. I have reverted the changes made and have initiated this discussion here with the hope that any pending issues will be resolved through discussion rather than through continuous reversion of edits. — Nearly Headless Nick   {c}  15:19, 3 June 2021 (UTC)