Professor, Political Science
ahicken@umich.eduCenter for Southeast Asian Studies; CSEAS Faculty; GISC Faculty; Global Islamic Studies Center; PICS Faculty; Program in International and Comparative Studies; WCED Faculty Affiliates; Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies; WCED Steering Committee; WCED Faculty Associates
Education/Degree:
PhD, Political Science/International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California San DiegoMIA, International Political Economy, Columbia University School of International Affairs
BA, International Relations/Asian Studies, Brigham Young University
Highlighted Work and Publications
Late to the Party: Institutional Reform and the Development of Partisanship in Thailand
Allen Hicken
Forthcoming
Name of Periodical: TRaNS: Trans-Regional and -National Studies of Southeast Asia
Are All Presidents Created Equal? Presidential Powers and the Shadow of Presidential Elections
Allen Hicken
Forthcoming
Name of Periodical: Comparative Political Studies
Building Party Systems in Developing Democracies
Allen Hicken
This book addresses the question of why a party system with a modest number of nationally oriented political parties emerges in some democracies but not others. The number of parties and nationalization are the product of coordination between voters, candidates, and party leaders within local electoral districts and coordination among candidates and elites across districts. Candidates and voters can do and do coordinate locally in response to electoral incentives, but coordination across districts, or aggregation, often fails in developing democracies. A key contribution of this book...
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