Thomas Pepinsky is Associate Professor in the Department of Government at Cornell University. He specializes in comparative politics and international political economy, with a focus on island Southeast Asia. He is the author, most recently, of Piety and Public Opinion: Understanding Indonesian Islam (Oxford University Press, 2018, with R. William Liddle and Saiful Mujani), and his work also appears in the American Journal of Political Science, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Democracy, World Development, World Politics, and other venues. He regularly blogs on Southeast Asian politics at tompepinsky.com/blog.