Edward Aspinall is a professor of politics at the Coral Bell School of Asia-Pacific Affairs, Australian National University. A specialist of Southeast Asia, especially Indonesia, he has authored two books, Opposing Suharto: Compromise, Resistance and Regime Change in Indonesia (2005) and Islam and Nation: Separatist Rebellion in Aceh, Indonesia (2009) and has co-edited a further ten, most recently Electoral Dynamics in Indonesia: Money Politics, Patronage and Clientelism at the Grassroots (2016). Much of his research has focused on democratisation, ethnic politics and civil society in Indonesia and, most recently, clientelism across Southeast Asia. A forthcoming book looks at vote buying and related practices in Indonesia.

Meredith L. Weiss is Professor of Political Science at the University at Albany, SUNY. She is the author of two books focused primarily on Malaysian politics, with two others in progress, and dozens of journal articles and book chapters, as well as editor of numerous volumes. Her research addresses political mobilization and contention, the politics of identity and development, and electoral politics in Southeast Asia. She is active in the American Political Science Association and Association for Asian Studies and has held visiting fellowships or professorships at universities in the US, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, Japan, and Australia.  

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