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This book breaks new ground by systematically examining China's capitalist transformation through several comparative lenses. The great majority of research on China to date has …

This book argues that democratization is inherently international: states democratize through a process of socialization to a liberal-rational global culture. This can clearly be …

This book addresses the politics of environmental change in one of the richest areas of tropical rainforest in Indonesia. Based on field studies conducted in three agricultural …

This book focuses on local bossism, a common political phenomenon where local power brokers achieve monopolistic control over an area's coercive and economic resources. Examples of …

Reconfiguring Families in Contemporary Vietnam chronicles and analyzes the most significant change for families in Vietnam's recent past – the transition to a market economy, …

Protest and Possibilities explores the pursuit of political reform in Malaysia, an illiberal democracy, and contrasts coalition-building and reform processes there with those of …

Opposing Suharto presents an account of democratization in the world's fourth most populous country, Indonesia. It describes how opposition groups challenged the long-time ruler, …

This is the first comprehensive analysis of the ways in which changes in the geopolitical context have altered the nature of the long-stable U.S.-Japan relationship: much of what …

What role did population change play in East Asia’s rapid economic development? A reliable answer to the question is important because the extraordinary economic record of East …

Rise of the Red Engineers explains the tumultuous origins of the class of technocratic officials who rule China today. In a fascinating account, author Joel Andreas chronicles how …

This book is about how the design of institutional change results in unintended consequences. Many post-authoritarian societies have adopted decentralization—effectively localizing …

This book argues that Southeast Asian political studies have made important contributions to theory building in comparative politics through a dialogue involving theory, area …