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Machine generated contents note: -- Part I. The Puzzles and Arguments -- 1. To extract and to organize 2. States and the regimes that run them Part II. Contentious Politics and the Institutions of Order: -- 3. Colonialism, cleavages, and the contours of contention; -- 4. Mobilization and countermobilization amid colonial retreat; -- 5. Varieties of violence in authoritarian onset; -- Part III. The Foundations and Fates of Authoritarian Leviathans: -- 6. Protection and provision in authoritarian leviathans; -- 7. Contentious politics and the struggle for democratization; -- Part IV. Extending the Arguments: -- 8. Congruent cases in Southeast Asia; -- 9. The consequences of contention.