Southeast Asia in Political Science: Theory, Region, and Qualitative Analysis

Southeast Asia in Political Science: Theory, Region, and Qualitative Analysis is the thirteenth title in the East-West Center book series, Contemporary Issues in Asia and the Pacific, published by Stanford University Press.

This book argues that Southeast Asian political studies have made important contributions to theory building in comparative politics through a dialogue involving theory, area studies, and qualitative methodology. The book provides a state-of-the-art review of key topics in the field, including: state structures, political regimes, political parties, contentious politics, civil society, ethnicity, religion, rural development, globalization, and political economy. The chapters allow readers to trace the development of the field of Southeast Asian politics and to address central debates in comparative politics. The book will serve as a valuable reference for undergraduate and graduate students, scholars of Southeast Asian politics, and comparativists engaged in theoretical debates at the heart of political science.

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Contents

Acknowledgments

Contributors

1. Introduction: The Contributions of Southeast Asian Political Studies
2. Studying States in Southeast Asia
3. Democracy and Dictatorship Do Not Float Freely: Structural Sources of Political Regimes in Southeast Asia
4. Developing Democracies in Southeast Asia: Theorizing the Role of Parties and Elections
5. Contentious Mass Politics in Southeast Asia: Knowledge Accumulation and Cycles of Growth and Exhaustion
6. In-Depth Research and Knowledge Accumulation About Agrarian Politics in Southeast Asia
7. Civil Society and Close Approximations Thereof
8. Beyond Doctrine and Dogma: Religion and Politics in Southeast Asia
9. The Study of Political Ethnicity in Southeast Asia
10. Southeast Asia and the Political Economy of Development
11. The Missing Countryside: The Price of Ignoring Rural Political Economy in Southeast Asia
12. Southeast Asia and Globalization: The Political Economy of Illiberal Adaptation
13. Southeast Asia in Political Science: Terms of Enlistment
14. Concluding Remarks

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