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Ordering Power: Contentious Politics and Authoritarian Leviathans in Southeast Asia. By Dan Slater. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. 342p. $85.00 cloth, $28.99 paper.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2011

Steven Levitsky  and
Lucan A. Way
Steven Levitsky
Affiliation:
Harvard University
Lucan A. Way
Affiliation:
University of Toronto
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Extract

It is not easy to offer a critical review of Dan Slater's book. Ordering Power makes several major contributions to the study of both state building and authoritarian durability. The book's analysis converges with ours in many areas; in some of these areas, it takes important steps beyond it.

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Critical Dialogue
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Perspectives on Politics , Volume 9 , Issue 2 , June 2011 , pp. 383 - 385
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 2011

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