Southeast Asia in Political Science: Theory, Region, and Qualitative Analysis / Edition 1

by Erik Martinez Kuhonta, Dan Slater, Tuong Vu

Overview

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 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780804761529
Publisher:	Stanford University Press
Publication date:	07/25/2008
Series:	Contemporary Issues in Asia and the Pacific
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	480
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Erik Martinez Kuhonta is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at McGill University. Dan Slater is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago. Tuong Vu is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Oregon, Eugene.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments     xiii
Contributors     xv
Introduction: The Contributions of Southeast Asian Political Studies   Erik Martinez Kuhonta   Dan Slater   Tuong Vu     1
Studying States in Southeast Asia   Erik Martinez Kuhonta     30
Democracy and Dictatorship Do Not Float Freely: Structural Sources of Political Regimes in Southeast Asia   Dan Slater     55
Developing Democracies in Southeast Asia: Theorizing the Role of Parties and Elections   Allen Hicken     80
Contentious Mass Politics in Southeast Asia: Knowledge Accumulation and Cycles of Growth and Exhaustion   Tuong Vu     102
In-Depth Research and Knowledge Accumulation About Agrarian Politics in Southeast Asia   Benedict J. Tria Kerkvliet     129
Civil Society and Close Approximations Thereof   Meredith L. Weiss     144
Beyond Doctrine and Dogma: Religion and Politics in Southeast Asia   Kikue Hamayotsu     171
The Study of Political Ethnicity in Southeast Asia   Jamie S. Davidson     199
Southeast Asia and the Political Economy of Development   Regina Abrami   Richard F. Doner     227
The Missing Countryside: The Price of Ignoring Rural Political Economy in Southeast Asia   Ardeth MaungThawnghmung     252
Southeast Asia and Globalization: The Political Economy of Illiberal Adaptation   Greg Felker     274
Southeast Asia in Political Science: Terms of Enlistment   Donald K. Emmerson     302
Concluding Remarks   Erik Martinez Kuhonta   Dan Slater   Tuong Vu     325
Notes     333
Bibliography     361
Index     423

Editorial Reviews

"[Southeast Asia in Political Science] is an excellent starting point for reinvigorating long-neglected debates about poverty and equity in Southeast Asia. It is theoretically and historically sophisticated, contains a wealth of information about social policy in Southeast Asia that is otherwise hard to access, and sets out some provocative ideas that deserve to be taken up and debated by scholars of Southeast Asian political economy from a wide range of theoretical perspectives."—Ben Thirkell-White, Contemporary Southeast Asia

"Southeast Asia in Political Science is successful on several grounds . . . the quality is high throughout, expertly edited for coherence and continuity. Invaluable for scholars of Southeast Asia, the volume also reaches out to scholars of other regions and comparative political scientists more broadly who might examine this book to reflect on the relationship between region, theory, and method and learn what Southeast Asia has to offer."—Ehito Kimura, Japanese Journal of Political Science.

"The scholarship here is excellent. These people know their region and its literature cold. This collection demonstrates the potential of qualitative Southeast Asian area studies to contribute to the broader accumulation of knowledge in political science, including the development of disciplinary theory." —Jack Snyder, Columbia University

"This collection consists of elegantly written, carefully crafted, intelligent, and interesting essays that will be of enormous value to scholars of the politics of Southeast Asia." —John Sidel, London School of Economics

From the Publisher

"The scholarship here is excellent. These people know their region and its literature cold. This collection demonstrates the potential of qualitative Southeast Asian area studies to contribute to the broader accumulation of knowledge in political science, including the development of disciplinary theory."

Columbia University - Jack Snyder

"This collection consists of elegantly written, carefully crafted, intelligent, and interesting essays that will be of enormous value to scholars of the politics of Southeast Asia."

London School of Economics - John Sidel

"Southeast Asia in Political Science is successful on several grounds . . . the quality is high throughout, expertly edited for coherence and continuity. Invaluable for scholars of Southeast Asia, the volume also reaches out to scholars of other regions and comparative political scientists more broadly who might examine this book to reflect on the relationship between region, theory, and method and learn what Southeast Asia has to offer."

Japanese Journal of Political Science. - Ehito Kimura

"[Southeast Asia in Political Science] is an excellent starting point for reinvigorating long-neglected debates about poverty and equity in Southeast Asia. It is theoretically and historically sophisticated, contains a wealth of information about social policy in Southeast Asia that is otherwise hard to access, and sets out some provocative ideas that deserve to be taken up and debated by scholars of Southeast Asian political economy from a wide range of theoretical perspectives."

Contemporary Southeast Asia - Ben Thirkell-White