Roots of the State: Neighborhood Organization and Social Networks in Beijing and Taipei - Couverture souple

Read, Benjamin

 
9780804775656: Roots of the State: Neighborhood Organization and Social Networks in Beijing and Taipei
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0804775656 ISBN 13 : 9780804775656
Editeur : Stanford University Press, 2012

Synopsis

Most social science studies of local organizations tend to focus on "civil society" associations, voluntary associations independent from state control, whereas government-sponsored organizations tend to be theorized in totalitarian terms as "mass organizations" or manifestations of state corporatism. Roots of the State examines neighborhood associations in Beijing and Taipei that occupy a unique space that exists between these concepts. Benjamin L. Read views the work of the neighborhood associations he studies as a form of "administrative grassroots engagement." States sponsor networks of organizations at the most local of levels, and the networks facilitate governance and policing by building personal relationships with members of society. Association leaders serve as the state's designated liaisons within the neighborhood and perform administrative duties covering a wide range of government programs, from welfare to political surveillance. These partly state-controlled entities also provide a range of services to their constituents. Neighborhood associations, as institutions initially created to control societies, may underpin a repressive regime such as China's, but they also can evolve to empower societies, as in Taiwan. This book engages broad and much-discussed questions about governance and political participation in both authoritarian and democratic regimes.

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À propos de l'auteur

Benjamin L. Read is Assistant Professor of Politics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. With Robert Pekkanen, he is co-editor of Local Organizations and Urban Governance in East and Southeast Asia: Straddling State and Society (2009).

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Éditeur
Stanford University Press
Date d'édition
2012
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0804775656
ISBN 13 
9780804775656
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
376
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780804775649: Roots of the State: Neighborhood Organization and Social Networks in Beijing and Taipei

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ISBN 10 :  0804775648 ISBN 13 :  9780804775649
Editeur : Stanford University Press, 2012
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