Gangsters, Democracy, and the State in Southeast Asia /

Gangsters, Democracy, and the State in Southeast Asia / / ed. by Carl A. Trocki.

An essay collection that studies workaday, regional politics in Southeast Asia and its implications for evolving democracies. The contributors examine the electoral process, conflicts between central and local governments, conflicts between individual freedoms and state power, and the roles charisma...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Archive (pre 2000) eBook Package
MitwirkendeR:
Abinales, Patricio N.,
Callahan, Mary P.,
Ockey, James,
Sidel, John T.,
Trocki, Carl A.,
HerausgeberIn:
Trocki, Carl A.,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©1998
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (94 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Democracy and the State in Southeast Asia
  • The Sinking Schooner: Murder and the State in Independent Burma, 1948-1958
  • Crime, Society, and Politics in Thailand
  • Murder, Inc., Cavite: Capitalist Development and Political Gangsterism in a Philippine Province
  • "Muslim" Political Brokers and the Philippines Nation-State

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