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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Übergeordnet: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Archive (pre 2000) eBook Package |
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Ort / Verlag: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©1998 |
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2018 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
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Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (94 p.) |
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Weitere Titel: | 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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Zusammenfassung: | 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 charismatic, opportunistic strongmen have played in Southeast Asian politics, most notably in Thailand, Burma, and the Philippines. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9781501719424 9783110649680 9783110536171 |
DOI: | 10.7591/9781501719424 |
Zugangseinschränkungen: | restricted access |
Hierarchiestufe: | Monografie |
Verantwortlichkeitsangabe: | ed. by Carl A. Trocki. |