Ordering Power: Contentious Politics and Authoritarian Leviathans in Southeast Asia

by Dan Slater

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521165458
• ISBN13: 9780521165457
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 346 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.2"