Local organizations and urban governance in East and Southeast Asia
Subtitle: straddling state and society
By: edited by Benjamin L. Read with Robert Pekkanen.
Contributors: Read, Benjamin Lelan.; Pekkanen, Robert.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780415492997; 9780203876152
Subjects: Local government -- East Asia; Local government -- Southeast Asia; Political participation -- East Asia; Political participation -- Southeast Asia; Community organization -- East Asia; Community organization -- Southeast Asia; East Asia -- Politics and government -- 21st century; Southeast Asia -- Politics and government -- 21st century
Table of contents: title: State-linked associational life : illuminating blind spots of existing paradigms / Benjamin L. Read; title: Japan's neighborhood associations : membership without advocacy / Robert Pekkanen; title: Swaying between state and community : the role of RT/RW in post-Suharto Indonesia / Aiko Kurasawa; title: The mutual colonization of state and civil society organizations in Vietnam / Joseph Hannah; title: Municipal governments and the role of cooperative community groups in Thailand / Chandra Mahakanjana; title: The multiple uses of local networks : state cultivation of neighborhood social capital in China and Taiwan / Benjamin L. Read; title: The sign of the cross : vertical and horizontal tensions in Vietnamese church-state relations / Lan T. Chu; title: State shaping of community-level politics : residents' committees in Singapore / Ooi Giok Ling.