Erik Martinez Kuhonta is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at McGill University. He received his Ph.D. in Politics from Princeton University in 2003 and has held fellowships at the Asia-Pacific Research Center at Stanford University and at the Asia Research Institute of the National University of Singapore. His research has appeared inAmerican Asian Review, Harvard Asia Quarterly,andPacific Review.Dan Slater is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago. He received his Ph.D. from Emory University in 2005. His research focuses on the social and historical foundations of states, parties, and regimes in Southeast Asia,… particularly Indonesia and Malaysia. Tuong Vu is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Oregon, Eugene. From 2007 to 2008, he is Visiting Research Fellow at the Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore. He has taught at the Naval Postgraduate School and was a Mendenhall Fellow at Smith College. His research focuses on Indonesia and Vietnam and he has published in Studies in Comparative International Development, Theory and Society, Communist and Post-Communist Studies, and South East Asia Research.