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Local organizations and urban governance in East and Southeast Asia : straddling state and society / edited by Benjamin L. Read with Robert Pekkanen.

Contributor(s): Read, Benjamin Lelan | Pekkanen, RobertMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Routledge studies on civil society in AsiaPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2009Description: vi, 193 p. ; 24 cmISBN: 9780415492997 (hardback); 0415492998 (hardback)Subject(s): 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 centuryLOC classification: JS7350 | .L64 2009Online resources: Click here to view Also available as an electronic resource.
Contents:
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.
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