Local organizations and urban governance in East and Southeast Asia :
Local organizations and urban governance in East and Southeast Asia : straddling state and society /
edited by Benjamin L. Read with Robert Pekkanen.
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2009.
- vi, 193 p. ; 24 cm.
- Routledge studies on civil society in Asia .
- Routledge studies on civil society in Asia. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9780415492997 (hardback) 0415492998 (hardback)
2008052595
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.
JS7350 / .L64 2009
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9780415492997 (hardback) 0415492998 (hardback)
2008052595
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.
JS7350 / .L64 2009