Podcast: Money Politics in Southeast Asia with Allen Hicken

On this episode of the Nordic Asia Podcast, Allen Hicken of the University of Michigan tells NYSEAN co-founder Duncan McCargo about an exciting comparative exploration of money and machine politics in Southeast Asia. This large Australian-funded project has involved extensive fieldwork over several years in Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines, looking at everything from village-level vote-buying to massive government pork-barrel schemes like Malaysia’s 1MBD. Their forthcoming co-authored monograph will offer new insights into how money fuels Southeast Asia’s politics.

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