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.

"[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

• Contents Acknowledgments000 Contributors000 1. Introduction: The Contributions of Southeast Asian Political Studies000 Erik Martinez Kuhonta, Dan Slater, and Tuong Vu 2. Studying States in Southeast Asia000 Erik Martinez Kuhonta 3. Democracy and Dictatorship Do Not Float Freely: Structural Sources of Political Regimes in Southeast Asia000 Dan Slater 4.Developing Democracies in Southeast Asia: Theorizing the Role of Parties and Elections000 Allen Hicken 5. Contentious Mass Politics in Southeast Asia: Knowledge Accumulation and Cycles of Growth and Exhaustion000 Tuong Vu 6. In-depth Research and Knowledge Accumulation about Agrarian Politics in Southeast Asia000 Benedict J. Tria Kerkvliet 7. Civil Society and Close Approximations Thereof000 Meredith L. Weiss 8. Beyond Doctrine and Dogma: Religion and Politics in Southeast Asia 000 Kikue Hamayotsu 9. The Study of Political Ethnicity in Southeast Asia000 Jamie S. Davidson 10. Southeast Asia and the Political Economy of Development000 Regina Abrami and Richard F. Doner 11. The Missing Countryside: The Price of Ignoring Rural Political Economy in Southeast Asia000 Ardeth Maung Thawnghmung 12. Southeast Asia and Globalization: The Political Economy of Illiberal Adaptation000 Greg Felker 13. Southeast Asia in Political Science: Terms of Enlistment000 Donald K. Emmerson 14. Concluding Remarks000 Erik Martinez Kuhonta, Dan Slater, and Tuong Vu Notes000 Bibliography000 Index000