Includes bibliographical references (p. 361-422) and index.

Introduction : the contributions of Southeast Asian political studies / Erik Martinez Kuhonta, Dan Slater, Tuong Vu -- Studying states in Southeast Asia / Erik Martinez Kuhonta -- Democracy and dictatorship do not float freely: structural sources of political regimes in Southeast Asia / Dan Slater -- Developing democracies in Southeast Asia : theorizing the role of parties and elections / Allen Hicken -- Contentious mass politics in Southeast Asia: knowledge accumulation and cycles of growth and exhaustion / Tuoung Vu -- In-depth research and knowledge accumulation about agrarian politics in Southeast Asia / Benedict J. Tria Kerkvliet -- Civil society and close approximation thereof / Meredith L. Weiss -- Beyond doctrine and dogma: religion and politics in Southeast Asia / Kikue Hamayotsu -- The study of political ethnicity in Southeast Asia / James S. Davidson -- Southeast Asia and the political economy of development / Regina Abrami and Richard F. Doner -- The missing countryside: the price of ignoring rural political economy in Southeast Asia / Ardeth Maung Thawnghmung -- Southeast Asia and globalization : the political economy of illiberal adaptation / Greg Felker -- Southeast Asia in political science: terms of enlistment / Donald K. Emmerson -- Concluding remarks / Erik Martinez Kuhonta, Dan Slater, Tuong Vu.