Larry Diamond is senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University, where he directs the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law. Marc F. Plattner is vice president for research and studies at the National Endowment for Democracy. Plattner and Diamond are coeditors of the Journal of Democracy. Yun-han Chu is Distinguished Research Fellow at the Institute of Political Science at Academia Sinica in Taipei and professor of political science at National Taiwan University.

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionPart I: Comparative and InstitutionalChapter 1. The Patterns of HistoryChapter 2. Parties, Electoral Systems, and GovernanceChapter 3. From Developmental States to Welfare StatesChapter 4. Regime Performance and Democratic LegitimacyPart II: Northeast AsiaChapter 5. Is CCP Rule Fragile or Resilient?Chapter 6. China and the Taiwan FactorChapter 7. The Two Turnovers in South Korea and TaiwanPart III: Southeast AsiaChapter 8. The Irony of Success in IndonesiaChapter 9. Reviving Reformism in the PhilippinesChapter 10. Thailand's Uneasy PassageChapter 11. Strong-State Democratization in Malaysia and SingaporeChapter 12. Elites vs. Reform in Laos, Cambodia, and VietnamChapter 13. Burma: The Democrats' OpportunityChapter 14. Minding the Gap Between Democracy and GovernanceChapter 15. The Shadow of ChinaIndex

Larry Diamond is senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University, where he directs the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law. Marc F. Plattner is vice president for research and studies at the National Endowment for Democracy. Plattner and Diamond are coeditors of the Journal of Democracy. Yun-han Chu is Distinguished Research Fellow at the Institute of Political Science at Academia Sinica in Taipei and professor of political science at National Taiwan University.

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionPart I: Comparative and InstitutionalChapter 1. The Patterns of HistoryChapter 2. Parties, Electoral Systems, and GovernanceChapter 3. From Developmental States to Welfare StatesChapter 4. Regime Performance and Democratic LegitimacyPart II: Northeast AsiaChapter 5. Is CCP Rule Fragile or Resilient?Chapter 6. China and the Taiwan FactorChapter 7. The Two Turnovers in South Korea and TaiwanPart III: Southeast AsiaChapter 8. The Irony of Success in IndonesiaChapter 9. Reviving Reformism in the PhilippinesChapter 10. Thailand's Uneasy PassageChapter 11. Strong-State Democratization in Malaysia and SingaporeChapter 12. Elites vs. Reform in Laos, Cambodia, and VietnamChapter 13. Burma: The Democrats' OpportunityChapter 14. Minding the Gap Between Democracy and GovernanceChapter 15. The Shadow of ChinaIndex

Larry Diamond is senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University, where he directs the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law. Marc F. Plattner is vice president for research and studies at the National Endowment for Democracy. Plattner and Diamond are coeditors of the Journal of Democracy. Yun-han Chu is Distinguished Research Fellow at the Institute of Political Science at Academia Sinica in Taipei and professor of political science at National Taiwan University.

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionPart I: Comparative and InstitutionalChapter 1. The Patterns of HistoryChapter 2. Parties, Electoral Systems, and GovernanceChapter 3. From Developmental States to Welfare StatesChapter 4. Regime Performance and Democratic LegitimacyPart II: Northeast AsiaChapter 5. Is CCP Rule Fragile or Resilient?Chapter 6. China and the Taiwan FactorChapter 7. The Two Turnovers in South Korea and TaiwanPart III: Southeast AsiaChapter 8. The Irony of Success in IndonesiaChapter 9. Reviving Reformism in the PhilippinesChapter 10. Thailand's Uneasy PassageChapter 11. Strong-State Democratization in Malaysia and SingaporeChapter 12. Elites vs. Reform in Laos, Cambodia, and VietnamChapter 13. Burma: The Democrats' OpportunityChapter 14. Minding the Gap Between Democracy and GovernanceChapter 15. The Shadow of ChinaIndex