TY - BOOK AU - ALAGAPPA Muthiah (ed.) TI - Political legitimacy in Southeast Asia: the quest for moral authority SN - 0804725608 (pbk.) PY - 1995/// CY - Stanford, Calif., USA PB - Stanford Univ. Press KW - BURMA KW - INDONESIA KW - MALAYSIA KW - PHILIPPINES KW - POLITICAL THEORY KW - POLITICS KW - SINGAPORE KW - SOUTHEAST ASIA KW - THAILAND KW - VIETNAM N2 - Arranged in 3 sections this book looks first at what constitutes legitimate government - the basis of authority, the process of legitimation, and why legitimacy fails. Section 2 presents case studies of the political legitimacy of 7 Southeast Asian countries; section 3 draws on the case studies and presents conclusions and observations ER -