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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©1998Description: 1 online resource (94 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781501719424
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 959.05/3 21
LOC classification:
  • DS526.7 .G36 1998
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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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
Summary: 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.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9781501719424

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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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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