Core Books & Theoretical Foundations
Acemoglu, D., & Robinson, J. A. (2012). Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty. New York: Crown Business.
Goldstone, J. A. (1991). Revolution and Rebellion in the Early Modern World. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Hirschman, A. O. (1970). Exit, Voice, and Loyalty: Responses to Decline in Firms, Organizations, and States. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Kuznetsov, Y. A. (2004). Elements of Applied Bifurcation Theory (3rd ed.). New York: Springer.
Prigogine, I., & Stengers, I. (1984). Order Out of Chaos: Man's New Dialogue with Nature. New York: Bantam Books.
Scheffer, M. (2009). Critical Transitions in Nature and Society. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Strogatz, S. H. (2018). Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos: With Applications to Physics, Biology, Chemistry, and Engineering (2nd ed.). Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.
Politics, Instability, and Indonesia Case Literature
Aspinall, E., & Mietzner, M. (Eds.). (2010). Problems of Democratisation in Indonesia: Elections, Institutions and Society. Singapore: ISEAS Publishing.
Mietzner, M. (2024). Elite Collusion in Indonesia: How It Has Both Enabled and Limited Executive Aggrandizement. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 75(1).