A Southeast Asia Perspective Vedi R. Hadiz Primary Author mixed material bibliography California Stanford University Press 2010 monographic en English

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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 "good governance." 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. About the author Vedi R. Hadiz is Associate Professor of Sociology at the National University of Singapore. Most recently, he is the editor of Empire and Neoliberalism in Asia (2006). Indonesia 9780804768535 C2O library Online catalog (BETA) 320.9598 HAD Loc 6157/A C2O library & collabtive (Social Sciences) 8000 pid_16599.jpg.jpg 5995 2016-04-29 18:31:46 2016-04-29 18:31:46 machine generated