Introduction / Edmund Terence Gomez -- Development and corruption / Andrew Wedeman -- Political business alliances / Johannes Dragsbaek Schmidt -- Political business in Malaysia / Edmund Terence Gomez -- KMT, Inc. / Karl J. Fields -- State predation and rapid growth / Andrew Wedeman -- The political business of development in South Korea / Peter Wad -- Politics, business, and democratization in Indonesia / Stefan Eklöf -- Democratization and economic crisis in Thailand / Tom Wingfield -- State, politics, and business in Singapore / Stephan Haggard and Linda Low -- Politics, business, and the inescapable web of structural corruption in Japan / James Babb.