TY  - BOOK
AU  - Abinales,Patricio N.
AU  - Callahan,Mary P.
AU  - Ockey,James
AU  - Sidel,John T.
AU  - Trocki,Carl A.
TI  - Gangsters, Democracy, and the State in Southeast Asia
SN  - 9781501719424
AV  - DS526.7 .G36 1998
U1  - 959.05/3 21
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - Ithaca, NY
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Crime
KW  - Southeast Asia
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Gangsters
KW  - Asian Studies
KW  - Political Science & Political History
KW  - HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501719424
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501719424
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501719424/original
ER  -