The Politics of Coercion: State and Regime Making in Cambodia Since 1979 - Couverture souple

Loughlin, Neil

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1501776584 ISBN 13 : 9781501776588

Editeur : Southeast Asia Program Publications, Cornell University, 2024

Synopsis

In The Politics of Coercion, Neil Loughlin explains the persistence of Cambodia's authoritarian regime for more than four decades. It provides a historically grounded investigation of the country's ruling coalition: political elites, many drawn from within the state's coercive apparatus, who, in coordination with state-dependent tycoons, have come to control Cambodia's politics and its economy. Loughlin presents new empirical data foregrounding the coercive underpinnings of the modern Cambodian state and its party, the Cambodian People's Party (CPP).

The focus on coercion reflects the regime's conflict and postconflict evolution and extractive political economy as the ruling coalition failed to channel popular interests through its political institutions, thus resorting either to low-intensity forms of coercion such as intimidation and surveillance or to high-intensity coercion such as violent crackdowns and extrajudicial killings.

Through a critical reevaluation of the regime's origins and evolution in its relationship with citizens, The Politics of Coercion reconceptualizes the CPP to emphasize the obstacles--structural, institutional, and distributional--to building a mass-based clientelist or developmentally legitimate authoritarian party.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Neil Loughlin is Lecturer in Comparative Politics at City, University of London. His work focuses on authoritarian politics and the political economy of development in the Southeast Asia region, where he previously worked for local and international human rights, democracy, and development organizations.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Southeast Asia Program Publications, Cornell University
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1501776584
• ISBN 13: 9781501776588
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 186
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• Personne responsable: non disponible