Local organizations and urban governance in East and Southeast Asia : Straddling state and society / edited by Benjamin L. Read with Robert Pekkanen
Imprint
London : Routledge, 2009
Edition
1st ed
Descript
vi, 193 p. ; 24 cm
CONTENT
State-linked associational life : illuminating blind spots of existing paradigms / Benjamin L. Read -- Japan's neighborhood associations : membership without advocacy / Robert Pekkanen -- Swaying between state and community : the role of RT/RW in post-Suharto Indonesia / Aiko Kurasawa -- The mutual colonization of state and civil society organizations in Vietnam / Joseph Hannah -- Municipal governments and the role of cooperative community groups in Thailand / Chandra Mahakanjana -- The multiple uses of local networks : state cultivation of neighborhood social capital in China and Taiwan / Benjamin L. Read -- The sign of the cross : vertical and horizontal tensions in Vietnamese church-state relations / Lan T. Chu -- State shaping of community-level politics : residents' committees in Singapore / Ooi Giok Ling
SUBJECT
local government
political participation
Southeast Asia -- Politics and government -- 21st century
East Asia -- Politics and government -- 21st century