Local organizations and urban governance in East and Southeast Asia [electronic resource] : straddling state and society / edited by Benjamin L. Read with Robert Pekkanen.
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TextSeries: Routledge studies on civil society in Asia ; 1.Publication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2009.Description: 1 online resource (vi, 193 p.)ISBN: - 9780203876152 (electronic bk.)
- 0203876156 (electronic bk.)
- Local government -- East Asia
- Local government -- Southeast Asia
- Political participation -- East Asia
- Political participation -- Southeast Asia
- Community organization -- East Asia
- Community organization -- Southeast Asia
- Community organization
- Local government
- Political participation
- East Asia -- Politics and government -- 21st century
- Southeast Asia -- Politics and government -- 21st century
- 320.8095Â 22
- JS7350Â .L64 2009eb
Description based on print version record.
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.