With fresh and provocative insights into the everyday reality of politics in post-Soviet Central
Asia, this volume moves beyond commonplaces about strong and weak states to ask critical …

This book brings together a series of innovative contributions which provide an eclectic view
of how theorizing politics plays out in Central Asia. How are the concepts of governance …

Exploring the Political in South Asia is devoted to the publication of research on the political
cultures of the region. The books in this Series present qualitative and quantitative analyses …

Over the past quarter century new ideologies of participation and representation have
proliferated across democratic and non-democratic regimes. In Participation without …

This special issue explores the connections between public authority and violent
contestation in a variety of South Asian contexts. Our research is situated in what are often …

By providing various fascinating first-hand accounts of how citizens negotiate their rights in
the context of weak state institutions, Citizenship and Democratization in Southeast Asia …

In the wake of Soviet disintegration, Central Asia became an idiom for the ensuing confusion
in the post-Cold War climate of international affairs, characterized by inter-state order and …

In the post-communist world, Katherine Verdery (1999, p. 25) argues that the fate of famous
political corpses helps us to see political transformation as something more than a technical …

Contemporary democratic backsliding typically unfolds gradually, as elected incumbents
slowly and relentlessly subvert democratic institutions without openly questioning the …

The countries of Southeast Asia continue to change, evolve and chart courses that
sometimes leave outside observers puzzled. Politics in Contemporary Southeast Asia …