This book is about how the design of institutional change results in unintended consequences. Many post-authoritarian societies have adopted decentralization—

Why do certain militaries brutally suppress popular demonstrations, while others support the path to political liberalization by backing mass social movements?

Indonesia is experiencing an historic and dramatic shift in political and economic power from the centre to the local level. The collapse of the highly centrali

Opposing Suharto presents an account of democratization in the world’s fourth most populous country, Indonesia. It describes how opposition groups challenged t