{"id":2488,"date":"2012-04-24T22:44:19","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T02:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/?p=2488"},"modified":"2017-04-03T18:44:40","modified_gmt":"2017-04-03T22:44:40","slug":"democratic-careening-accountability-dynamics-across-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/2012\/04\/24\/democratic-careening-accountability-dynamics-across-asia\/","title":{"rendered":"Democratic Careening: Accountability Dynamics Across Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, April 23, <strong>Dan Slater<\/strong>, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago and the author of <em>Ordering Power: Contentious Politics and Authoritarian Leviathans in Southeast Asia<\/em> (Cambridge University Press, 2012), was at Boston University to discuss his new project with, tentatively titled: Advancing Accountability: Democratic Dynamics in the Post-Colonial World. Slater\u2019s uses a comparative-historical approach to explore and explain accountability dynamics in the postcolonial world. He proposes the term \u201ccareening\u201d as a way of capturing the unsettledness that characterizes so many democracies that are clearly struggling but are not yet collapsing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, April 23, Dan Slater, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago and the author of Ordering Power: Contentious Politics and Authoritarian Leviathans in Southeast Asia (Cambridge University Press, 2012), was at Boston University to discuss his new project with, tentatively titled: Advancing Accountability: Democratic Dynamics in the Post-Colonial World. Slater\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5329,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7618,7619,84,1243],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2488"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5329"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2488"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3163,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2488\/revisions\/3163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}