Ordering power contentious politics and authoritarian leviathans in Southeast Asia
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TextSeries: Cambridge studies in comparative politicsPublication details: New York Cambridge University Press 2010Description: xviii,319p. ill., map ; 24 cmISBN: - 9780521165457
- 320.530959 22 SL-O
- JQ750.A58 S53 2010
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Includes biblographical references (p. 293-309) and index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: Part I. The Puzzles and Arguments: 1. To extract and to organize; 2. States and the regimes that run them; Part II. Contentious Politics and the Institutions of Order: 3. Colonialism, cleavages, and the contours of contention; 4. Mobilization and countermobilization amid colonial retreat; 5. Varieties of violence in authoritarian onset; Part III. The Foundations and Fates of Authoritarian Leviathans: 6. Protection and provision in authoritarian leviathans; 7. Contentious politics and the struggle for democratization; Part IV. Extending the Arguments: 8. Congruent cases in Southeast Asia; 9. The consequences of contention.
"Like the postcolonial world more generally, Southeast Asia exhibits tremendous variation in state capacity and authoritarian durability. Ordering Power draws on theoretical insights dating back to Thomas Hobbes to develop a unified framework for explaining both of these political outcomes. States are especially strong and dictatorships especially durable when they have their origins in "protection pacts": broad elite coalitions unified by shared support for heightened state power and tightened authoritarian controls as bulwarks against especially threatening and challenging types of contentious politics. These coalitions provide the elite collective action underpinning strong states, robust ruling parties, cohesive militaries, and durable authoritarian regimes - all at the same time. Comparative-historical analysis of seven Southeast Asian countries (Burma, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, South Vietnam, and Thailand) reveals that subtly divergent patterns of contentious politics after World War II provide the best explanation for the dramatic divergence in Southeast Asia's contemporary states and regimes"--Provided by publisher.
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