Books
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China’s “Singapore Model” and Authoritarian Learning, edited with Stephan Ortmann (London: Routledge, 2020).
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Governance and Democracy in the Asia-Pacific, edited with Stephen McCarthy (London: Routledge, 2020).
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Authoritarian Modernism in East Asia (London: Palgrave, 2019)
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The Routledge Handbook of the Contemporary Philippines, edited with Eric V. Batalla (London: Routledge, 2018).
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Dynasties and Female Political Leaders in Asia: Gender, Power and Pedigree, edited with Claudia Derichs (Berlin/London: LIT Verlag, 2013)
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Transformationen in Asien-Pazifikschen Raum (Transformations in the Asia-Pacific Region), with Oskar Kurer and Thomas Fröhlich (Munich: Allitera, 2007).
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Politik in Japan: System, Reformprozesse und Aussenpolitik in internationaler Vergleich (Politics in Japan: System, Reform Processes and Foreign Policy in International Comparative Perspective), with Verena Bleichinger and Christina Frantz (Frankfurt am Main: Campus, 2006).
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Frauen an der Macht: Dynastien und politische Führerinnen in Asien (Dynasties and Female Leaders in Asia), with Claudia Derichs (Passau: Passauer Beiträge zur Südostasienkunde, 2005).
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Democratic Revolutions: Asia and Eastern Europe (London: Routledge, 2004).
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The Anti-Marcos Struggle: Personalistic Rule and Democratic Transition in the Philippines (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995; Quezon City: New Day Publishers, 1996, 2nd ed. 1999).
Special Journal Issues/Sections
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“The ‘Singapore Model’ and China's New Neo-Authoritarian Dream,” edited with Stephan Ortmann, The China Quarterly, Volume 236 (December 2018), pp. 930-945.
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“Perilous Presidentialism in Southeast Asia?”, edited with Marco Buente, Contemporary Politics, 2018, 24, no. 3, pp. 251-360.
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“The Early Duterte Presidency in the Philippines.” Editor. Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, 3/2016, pp. 3-186.
Refereed Journal Articles
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"Pushback after backsliding? Unconstrained executive aggrandizement in the Philippines versus contested military-monarchical rule in Thailand" Democratization (October 2020)
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“Southeast Asia’s Troubling Elections: Is there a Silver Lining? Journal of Democracy, 30, no. 4 (October), 149-157.
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“Why Duterte Remains so Popular: The Failures of the Philippine’s Liberal Reformism,” Foreign Affairs, online edition (October 9, 2018).
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“Mis-modeling Singapore: China’s Challenges in Learning from a City-State,” China Quarterly , with Stephan Ortmann (forthcoming 2018), part of a special issue on China’s ‘Singapore Model’ ed. with S. Ortmann.
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“The Philippine Presidency in Southeast Asian Perspective: Imperiled and Imperious Presidents but not Perilous Presidentialism,” Contemporary Politics (published online 11 Dec. 2017), part of a special issue “Perilous Presidentialism in Southeast Asia?” ed. with M. Buente.
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"Introduction. The Early Duterte Presidency in the Philippines," pp. 3-14 and "Bloodied Democracy: Duterte and the Death of Liberal Reformism in the Philippines," pp. 39-68 both in the Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, 35 , no. 3 (2016).
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With Julio Teehankee, “The Vote in the Philippines: Electing a Strongman,” Journal of Democracy, 27:4 (October 2016), pp. 124-134.
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“Populism and the Moral Economy of Electoralism in the Philippines and Thailand,” Journal of Developing Societies, 32: 3 (2016): pp. 1-24.
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“Southeast Asia’s Subversive Voters: A Philippine Perspective,” Philippine Studies, 64, no. 2 (June 2016), pp. 265-87
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with Stephan Ortmann, “China’s ‘Singapore Model’ and its Limits,” Journal of Democracy, 27, no. 1 (January 2016), pp. 39-48.
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“Democracy with Asian Characteristics,” Journal of Asian Studies, vol. 74, no. 4 (November 2015), pp. 875-887.
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“The Politics Philippine Presidents Make: Presidential Style, Patronage-based or Regime Relational?” Critical Asian Studies (September 2014), pp. 433-460.
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With Stephan Ortmann, “China's Obsession with Singapore: Learning Authoritarian Modernity,” Pacific Review (May 2014), pp. 433-455.
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“Asia’s Hybrid Dynasties,” Asian Affairs, XLIII, no. II, July 2012, pp. 204-220.
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“Das Ueberleben des Totalitaritarismus und Developmentalism in Ostasien” (The Survival of Totalitarianism and Developmentalism in East Asia), WeltTrends: Zeitschrift fuer Internationale Politik, Nr 81 (1/2012).
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“Reformism v. Populism in the Philippines,” Journal of Democracy 21, no. 4 (October 2010), pp. 154-168.
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“Japan’s German Path and Asia’s Flying Geese Formation,” Asian Journal of Social Science , 28, no. 5 (2010), pp. 697-715.
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with Philipp Kuntz, “More than the Final Straw: Stolen Elections as Revolutionary Triggers,” Comparative Politics, 41, no. 3 (April 2009), pp. 253-272.
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“People Power Sours: Uncivil Society in Thailand and the Philippines,” Current History 107, issue 712 (November 2008), pp. 381-387.
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“Presidentas and People Power in Comparative Asian Perspective,” Philippine Political Science Journal, 28, no. 51 (2007), pp. 1-32.
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with Ludmilla Lennartz, “The Making of Chancellor Merkel,” German Politics 15, no. 1 (2006), pp. 99-110.
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with Philipp Kuntz, "Stolen Elections: The Case of the Serbian October," Journal of Democracy, 15, No. 4 (October 2004), pp. 159-172.
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“Pacific Asia after ‘Asian Values’: Authoritarianism, Democracy, and ‘Good Governance’,” Third World Quarterly, 25, no. 6 (2004), pp. 1079-1095.
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“Les présidentes Philippines: essai de comparaison asiatique” Peninsule (special edition: “Les Structures Politiques Traditionnelles a Lépreuve de la Democratie en asie du sud-est’) 48, 1 (2004), pp. 65-84.
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“Female Leadership of Democratic Transitions in Asia,” Pacific Affairs, 75, no. 4 (Winter 2002-2003), pp. 535-555.
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“To Shoot or not to Shoot: Post-Totalitarianism in China and Eastern Europe,” Comparative Politics, Vol. 31, No. 1 (October 2001), pp. 63-83.
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“Whatever Happened to 'Asian Values'?” Journal of Democracy, 12, no. 4 (October 2001), pp. 154-165.
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“Late Industrialisers, Late Democratisers: Developmental States in the Asia-Pacific,” Third World Quarterly, Vol. 17, No. 4 (December 1996), pp. 625-647.
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“Why and How East Germans Rebelled,” Theory and Society, vol. 25, no. 2 (April 1996), pp. 263-299.
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“Off the Endangered List: Philippine Democratization in Comparative Perspective,” Comparative Politics, vol. 28, no. 2 (January 1996), pp. 179-205.
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“The Limits of Democratisation in ASEAN,” Third World Quarterly, 14, no. 3 (1993), pp. 469-484.
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With Yossi Shain, “The Role of Political Exiles in Democratic Transition: The Case of the Philippines,” Journal of Developing Societies, Vol. VI (1990), pp. 71-86.
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With Gregory Slayton, “An Essay on Credit Arrangements between the IMF and the Republic of the Philippines: 1970-1983,” Philippine Review of Economics and Business, Vol. XXII, Nos. 1-2 (March & June, 1985), pp. 59-81.