Local Organizations and Urban Governance in East and Southeast Asia (eBook, PDF)

Straddling state and society
Redaktion: Read, Benjamin L.; Pekkanen, Robert

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Brings together enterprising pieces of new research on the many forms of organization in East and Southeast Asia that are sponsored or mandated by government, but engage widespread participation at the grassroots level. Straddling the state-society divide, these organizations play important roles in society and politics, yet are dimly understood.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juni 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134006694
• Artikelnr.: 43070018

Autorenporträt

Benjamin L. Read is an assistant professor in the Politics Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Robert Pekkanen is chair of the Japan Studies Program and an associate professor at the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington in Seattle.

Inhaltsangabe

1. State-Linked Associational Life: Illuminating Blind Spots of Existing
Paradigms 2. Japan's Neighborhood Associations: Membership without Advocacy
3. Swaying Between State and Community: The Role of RT/RW in Post-Suharto
Indonesia 4. The Mutual Colonization of State and Civil Society
Organizations in Vietnam 5. Municipal Governments and the Role of
Cooperative Community Groups in Thailand 6. The Multiple Uses of Local
Networks: State Cultivation of Neighborhood Social Capital in China and
Taiwan 7. The Sign of the Cross: Vertical and Horizontal Tensions in
Vietnamese Church-State Relations 8. State Shaping of Community-Level
Politics: Residents' Committees in Singapore