Economic Crises and the Breakdown of Authoritarian Regimes - Indonesia and Malaysia in Comparative Perspective

Informationen zum Autor Thomas B. Pepinsky is Assistant Professor of Government and a faculty affiliate of the Southeast Asia Program at Cornell University, New York. His research appears in World Politics, the European Journal of International Relations, the Journal of East Asian Studies, the Journal of Democracy, Studies in Comparative International Development, and several edited volumes. He received his PhD from Yale University and taught at the University of Colorado, Boulder from 2007 to 2008. He held a Fulbright–Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad fellowship in Indonesia and Malaysia from 2004 to 2005. Klappentext Thomas B. Pepinsky examines how coalitions and capital mobility in Indonesia and Malaysia shape the links between financial crises and regime change. Zusammenfassung Why do some authoritarian regimes topple during financial crises! while others steer through financial crises relatively unscathed? In this book! Thomas B. Pepinsky uses the experiences of Indonesia and Malaysia and the analytical tools of open economy macroeconomics to answer this question. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Crises, adjustment, and transitions; 2. Coalitional sources of adjustment and regime survival; 3. Authoritarian support coalitions: comparing Indonesia and Malaysia; 4. Adjustment policy in Indonesia, June 1997-May 1998; 5. Adjustment policy in Malaysia, June 1997-December 1999; 6. Authoritarian breakdown in Indonesia; 7. Authoritarian stability in Malaysia; 8. Cross-national perspectives; 9. Conclusions.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas B Pepinsky, Thomas B. Pepinsky, Thomas B. (Cornell University Pepinsky, Thomas Blake Pepinsky
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.08.2009
• EAN: 9780521767934
• ISBN: 978-0-521-76793-4
• No. of pages: 344
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Malaysia, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, Politics & government, Political Economy, Comparative Politics, Indonesia, Economic and financial crises and disasters, Political structure and processes