Localising Power in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia e-bog
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This book is about how the design of institutional change results in unintended consequences. Many post-authoritarian societies have adopted decentralization-effectively localizing power-as part and parcel of democratization, but also in their efforts to entrench "e;good governance."e; Vedi Hadiz shifts the attention to the accompanying tensions and contradictions that define the terms ...
E-bog
223,05 DKK
Forlag
Stanford University Press
Udgivet
26 januar 2010
Længde
264 sider
Genrer
1FMN
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9780804773522
This book is about how the design of institutional change results in unintended consequences. Many post-authoritarian societies have adopted decentralization-effectively localizing power-as part and parcel of democratization, but also in their efforts to entrench "e;good governance."e; Vedi Hadiz shifts the attention to the accompanying tensions and contradictions that define the terms under which the localization of power actually takes place. In the process, he develops a compelling analysis that ties social and institutional change to the outcomes of social conflict in local arenas of power.Using the case of Indonesia, and comparing it with Thailand and the Philippines, Hadiz seeks to understand the seeming puzzle of how local predatory systems of power remain resilient in the face of international and domestic pressures. Forcefully persuasive and characteristically passionate, Hadiz challenges readers while arguing convincingly that local power and politics still matter greatly in our globalized world.