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The Politics of Hong Kong

"Centralist authoritarians and localist democrats have fought each other in Hong Kong especially during the last few decades of the long period in which the city’s regime type developed. Process tracing to understand..." – By lynn White

The Politics of Indonesia

"Indonesia is the world’s third-most populous democracy, a Muslim-majority nation, and one of Asia’s emerging economic giants. Indonesia transitioned from over 3 decades of stable authoritarian rule..." – By Eve Warburton

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