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This chapter discusses contending theoretical approaches to political economy relevant to the study of Southeast Asia and outlines the approach taken in the rest of this book. After introducing the basic notion of “political economy”, we outline three contending approaches used to understand it: Weberianism, historical institutionalism, and the Murdoch School.
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Hameiri, S., Jones, L. (2020). Theorising Political Economy in Southeast Asia. In: Carroll, T., Hameiri, S., Jones, L. (eds) The Political Economy of Southeast Asia. Studies in the Political Economy of Public Policy. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28255-4_1
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