Erik Kuhonta Professor Erik Kuhonta is an Associate

Erik Kuhonta
Professor Erik Kuhonta is an Associate Professor of Political Science at McGill
University and a member of the Institute for the Study of International Development.
He studied at the University of Pennsylvania, Cornell University and Princeton
University, from which he received his Ph.D. in 2003. His fields of interest include
comparative politics and Southeast Asian politics, the political economy of
development and inequality and political institutions, especially states and political
parties, and he has published a number of articles and book chapters in these fields.
He was the co-editor (with Dan Slater and Tuong Vu) of Southeast Asia in Political
Science: Theory, Region and Qualitative Analysis (Stanford: Stanford University
Press, 2008). More recently he published The Institutional Imperative: The Politics
of Equitable Development in Southeast Asia (Stanford: Stanford University Press,
2011). He has carried out research and lived in several parts of Southeast Asia.
Le prof. Kuhonta est professeur agrégé de science politique à l’Université McGill et
membre de l’Institut d’étude du développement international (IEDI). Il a étudié à
l’Université de Pennsylvanie, Cornell et Princeton dont il est titulaire d’un doctorat
depuis 2003. Il s’intéresse notamment à la politique comparée et à la politique du
Sud- Est asiatique, l’économie politique du développement, les inégalités et les
institutions politiques, en particulier en ce qui a trait aux États parties et aux partis
politiques, sujets sur lesquels il a publié de nombreux articles et chapitres de livres.
En 2008, il a publié, conjointement avec Dan Slater et Tuong Vu, un ouvrage intitulé
Southeast Asia in Political Science: Theory, Region and Qualitative Analysis
(Stanford: Stanford University Press) et, plus récemment, The Institutional
Imperative: The Politics of Equitable Development in Southeast Asia (Stanford:
Stanford University Press, 2011). Il a mené des recherches et résidé dans diverses
régions de l’Asie du Sud-Est.