Dan Slater

Dan Slater Ph.D., Emory, 2005
	Major Areas of Interest:	- Authoritarianism and Democratization - Contentious Politics and State-Building - Comparative-Historical Methods - Southeast Asian Politics
	Selected Publications:	"Revolutions, Crackdowns, and Quiescence: Communal Elites and Democratic Mobilization in Southeast Asia." American Journal of Sociology 115:1 (July 2009). "Can Leviathan be Democratic? Competitive Elections, Robust Mass Politics, and State Infrastructural Power." Studies in Comparative International Development 43:3 (Fall/Winter 2008). "Institutions of the Offensive: Domestic Sources of Dispute Initiation in Authoritarian Regimes, 1950-1992" (with Brian Lai). American Journal of Political Science 50:1 (January 2006). "Systemic Vulnerability and the Origins of Developmental States: Northeast and Southeast Asia in Comparative Perspective" (with Richard Doner and Bryan Ritchie). International Organization 59:2 (Spring 2005). "Iron Cage in an Iron Fist: Authoritarian Institutions and the Personalization of Power in Malaysia." Comparative Politics 36:1 (October 2003).
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Dan Slater is the author of Ordering Power: Contentious Politics and Authoritarian Leviathans in Southeast Asia, forthcoming in 2010 in the Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics series at Cambridge University Press. A work of comparative-historical analysis covering seven Southeast Asian countries, the book proposes a unified theoretical framework tracing contemporary divergence in state strength and authoritarian durability to variation in the type and timing of contentious politics in the period following World War II. He is also a co-editor of Southeast Asia in Political Science: Theory, Region, and Qualitative Analysis (Stanford University Press, 2008), which explores and assesses the contributions of Southeast Asian political studies to theoretical knowledge in comparative politics. He has recently won the Sage Best Paper Awards from APSA's Comparative Politics and Qualitative and Multi-Methods Research sections, as well as the Best Article Award from APSA's Comparative Democratization section.