Steven Oliver

My paper "The State in Chinese Economic History: a Survey" coauthored with Dr Sng Tuan-Hwee is available as an East Asian Institute Working Paper: research.nus.edu.sg/eai/wp-content…

Our very own Associate Editor for Southeast Asia, @KaiOstwald, and Steven Oliver's article, entitled "Singapore's Pandemic Election: Opposition Parties and Valence Politics in GE2020" ranked as the fifth most popular articles downloaded from Ingenta in 2021!

Takeaway is that whereas some representation occurs, not all marginalised communities are well-represented, reflecting constraints on individual legislator-driven representation amidst broader party electoral strategies. (5/5)

Interviews with MPs help us to identify precise mechanisms driving such representation, including shared experience, career-derived awareness, and representative philosophies. (4/5)

Proud to see a first publication with recent @yalenus graduates @__nym___ and Joel Yew now out in Parliamentary Affairs: doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsa… Who speaks for marginalised communities in dominant-party parliaments, where electoral accountability is weak? (1/5)

Much more in the paper - the official copy is here: doi.org/10.1177%2F1065…, and the replication files are here: doi.org/10.7910/DVN/EE… 7/7

#bongbongmarcos of #PhilippineElections2022 is another success of authoritarian legacy politician. Why do democratic voters support them? In a forthcoming @AJPS_Editor article we study how a rural development policy in 70s helped #parkchunghee’s daughter in 2012 #SouthKorea (1/n)

Happening tomorrow at 2pm SG time! Join us if you are available.

My opinion piece published in the Straits Times analyzing the recently concluded Johor election results, and suggesting what we should look out for in terms of anti-BN opposition alliance formation moving forwards. Behind paywall. straitstimes.com/opinion/lesson…

Przeworski just threw a smoke grenade into the entire political science literature on game-theoretical modeling of autocracies. I suspect some answers to his questions can be gleaned from a trip to Singapore -

Author's copies of Retrofitting Leninism finally arrived! The book is about inclusive authoritarianism with the help of technology in China. More on the publisher page: global.oup.com/academic/produ…

Excited that Jacob Ricks @sgSMUSOSS and I have a book cover! Many thanks to @EdwardAspinall and @merweissphd for shepherding this manuscript through.

Look what came in the mail! Great to see the chapter @UBCPoliSci PhD @IsabelChew_ and I wrote on ethnic and national identity in #Malaysia and #Singapore in print! bit.ly/3GqNKSB

@TomPepinsky @dramyhliu @seapcornell No! It is at 12:15 am for us... will try to make it.

#AcademicTwitter, let's give a warm welcome to the amazing @merweissphd who've finally caved and joined twitterverse! Follow her for all things #southeastasia #malaysia #malaysianpolitics #polsci and other fun things 🥳

I'm so looking forward to returning to @EmoryUniversity @EmoryPolisci to attend SEAREG in Dec. It will be my first in-person conference since the pandemic started. I'm always inspired at SEAREG, and look forward to catching up with colleagues and friends. Join us if you can!

Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears! My forthcoming @UofMPress book "Opposing Power" is now available for pre-order!! Get 40% OFF with the Fall Sale discount code "UMFALL21" and the paperback is only US$23.97!!! The book will ship in May 2022. press.umich.edu/12001520/oppos…