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Discussion of Erik Martinez Kuhonta, Dan Slater, and Tuong Vu's Southeast Asia in Political Science: Theory, Region, and Qualitative Analysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 March 2016

Thomas B. Pepinsky ,
Barbara Geddes ,
Duncan McCargo ,
Richard Robison ,
Erik Martinez Kuhonta ,
Dan Slater  and
Tuong Vu
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Abstract

Comparative politics has witnessed periodic debates between proponents of contextually sensitive area studies research and others who view such work as unscientific, noncumulative, or of limited relevance for advancing broader social science knowledge. In Southeast Asia in Political Science: Theory, Region, and Qualitative Analysis, edited by Erik Martinez Kuhonta, Dan Slater, and Tuong Vu, a group of bright, young Southeast Asianists argue that contextually sensitive research in Southeast Asia using qualitative research methods has made fundamental and lasting contributions to comparative politics. They challenge other Southeast Asianists to assert proudly the contributions that their work has made and urge the rest of the comparative politics discipline to take these contributions seriously. This symposium includes four short critical reviews of Southeast Asia in Political Science by political scientists representing diverse scholarly traditions. The reviews address both the methodological and the theoretical orientations of the book and are followed by a response from the editors.

Keywords

comparative politicsqualitative methodstheorySoutheast Asia
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Roundtable
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Journal of East Asian Studies , Volume 10 , Issue 2 , August 2010 , pp. 171 - 208
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Copyright © East Asia Institute 

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