State-building, Nation-building, and Civil Service Recruitment in Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia Crossroads Podcast - CSEAS @ NIU

Nicholas Kuipers is a PhD candidate in political science at the University of California, Berkeley and a predoctoral scholar at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law at Stanford University. Most of his research is interested in identifying whether and when certain political institutions worsen group-based antagonisms. In this podcast, he and Dr Jones discuss the civil service exams in Indonesia and the civil unrest that follows.