Ordering Power: Contentious Politics and Authoritarian Leviathans in Southeast Asia Stewart W. Bentley Jr. and the thing under your

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Ordering Power: Contentious Politics and Authoritarian Leviathans in Southeast Asia Stewart W. Bentley Jr. and the thing under yourLike 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