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PARTY SYSTEM INSTITUTIONALIZATION IN ASIA: Democracies, Autocracies, and the Shadows of the Past | Edited by Allen Hicken, Erik Martinez Kuhonta

Nathan Allen

THE PACIFIC FESTIVALS OF AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND: Negotiating Place and Identity in a New Homeland | By Jared Mackley-Crump

Charmaine ‘Ilaiū Talei

EMBODIED NATION: Sport, Masculinity, and the Making of Modern Laos | By Simon Creak

Carol Ireson-Doolittle

GLOBALISATION, DEMOCRACY AND CORRUPTION: An Indian Perspective | By Pranab Bardhan

John Harriss

IDENTITY CHANGE AND FOREIGN POLICY: Japan and its ‘others’ | Edited by Linus Hagström

Kyoko Hatakeyama

ASSESSING CHINA’S POWER | Edited by Jae Ho Chung

Peter Worthing

TRANSNATIONAL MIGRATION AND ASIA: The Question of Return | Edited by Michiel Baas

Josephine Smart

THE PEARL FRONTIER: Indonesian Labor and Indigenous Encounters in Australia’s Northern Trading Network | By Julia Martínez and Adrian Vickers

A. Ross Gordon

FRONTIER LIVELIHOODS: Hmong in the Sino-Vietnamese Borderlands | By Sarah Turner, Christine Bonnin, Jean Michaud

Shaun Kingsley Malarney

DEMOCRACY AND TRANSPARENCY IN THE INDIAN STATE: The Making of the Right to Information Act | By Prashant Sharma

Martin Webb