Garry Rodan is Professor of Politics and International Studies at the Asia Research Centre, School of Management and Governance, Murdoch University, Australia. He is also a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. He is the author of Transparency and Authoritarian Rule in Southeast Asia (RoutledgeCurzon 2004) and The Political Economy of Singapore's Industrialization (Macmillan, 1989). His edited and co-edited books include Neoliberalism and Conflict in Asia After 9/11 (Routledge 2005), The Political Economy of Southeast Asia (OUP, 1997, 2001, 2006), Political Oppositions in Industrializing Asia (Routledge 1996), Singapore Changes Guard (Longman 1993) and Southeast Asia in the 1990s: Authoritarianism, Capitalism and Democracy (Allen & Unwin 1993).Caroline Hughes is Professor Conflict Resolution and Peace in the Department of Peace Studies at the University of Bradford in the UK. She was previously Director of the Asia Research Centre at Murdoch University in Australia. Her research has focused upon the political economy of regime change and post-conflict statebuilding, in Cambodia and East Timor in particular. She is the author of Dependent Communities: Aid and Politics in Cambodia and East Timor (Cornell SEAP, 2009) and The Political Economy of Cambodia's Transition 1991-2001 (Routledge, 2003).

Rodan and Hughes book shows the importance of bringing politics back into the accountability debate in Southeast Asia...theirs is an argument that should be taken seriously by academics, civil society organizations and development agencies alike when assessing accountability reforms across the region.

• 1. Contrasting ideological rationales for accountability ; 2. Accountability coalitions in the Southeast Asian context ; 3. Political crisis and human rights accountability in Singapore and Malaysia ; 4. Decentralization and accountability in post-socialist Cambodia and Vietnam ; 5. Social accountability in the Philippines and Cambodia ; 6. State-based anticorruption agencies in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Thailand ; Conclusion

Garry Rodan is Professor of Politics and International Studies at the Asia Research Centre, School of Management and Governance, Murdoch University, Australia. He is also a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. He is the author of Transparency and Authoritarian Rule in Southeast Asia (RoutledgeCurzon 2004) and The Political Economy of Singapore's Industrialization (Macmillan, 1989). His edited and co-edited books include Neoliberalism and Conflict in Asia After 9/11 (Routledge 2005), The Political Economy of Southeast Asia (OUP, 1997, 2001, 2006), Political Oppositions in Industrializing Asia (Routledge 1996), Singapore Changes Guard (Longman 1993) and Southeast Asia in the 1990s: Authoritarianism, Capitalism and Democracy (Allen & Unwin 1993).Caroline Hughes is Professor Conflict Resolution and Peace in the Department of Peace Studies at the University of Bradford in the UK. She was previously Director of the Asia Research Centre at Murdoch University in Australia. Her research has focused upon the political economy of regime change and post-conflict statebuilding, in Cambodia and East Timor in particular. She is the author of Dependent Communities: Aid and Politics in Cambodia and East Timor (Cornell SEAP, 2009) and The Political Economy of Cambodia's Transition 1991-2001 (Routledge, 2003).

Rodan and Hughes book shows the importance of bringing politics back into the accountability debate in Southeast Asia...theirs is an argument that should be taken seriously by academics, civil society organizations and development agencies alike when assessing accountability reforms across the region.

• 1. Contrasting ideological rationales for accountability ; 2. Accountability coalitions in the Southeast Asian context ; 3. Political crisis and human rights accountability in Singapore and Malaysia ; 4. Decentralization and accountability in post-socialist Cambodia and Vietnam ; 5. Social accountability in the Philippines and Cambodia ; 6. State-based anticorruption agencies in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Thailand ; Conclusion