http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/authors/3086/nicholas-anderson Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Wed, 29 Jul 2026 14:48:34 -0400 Wed, 29 Jul 2026 14:48:34 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1232/the-odd-couple-modernization-and-democratization-in-southeast-asia By Nicholas Anderson - Seymour Martin Lipset's, "the more well-to-do a nation, the greater chances that it will sustain democracy,"1 has set off over five decades of intense debate over the conditions most conducive to democratic transition and establishment. Variations of what has become known as the modernization theory have been applied to innumerable cases in a variety of ways, in attempts to test its validity. In the process, Southeast Asia (SEA) has emerged as a region which seemingly defies the general thrust of this theory.2 With both incredibly rich authoritarian regimes and incredibly poor democracies, on... Fri, 15 Apr 2011 12:00 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1232/the-odd-couple-modernization-and-democratization-in-southeast-asia