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Carl A. Trocki
Gangsters, Democracy, and the State in Southeast Asia [PDF ebook]

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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.

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Carl A. Trocki is the Jacobson Visiting Associate Professor of Southeast Asian History at Georgetown University.

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Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 94 ● ISBN 9781501719424 ● File size 7.4 MB ● Editor Carl A. Trocki ● Publisher Cornell University Press ● City Ithaca ● Country US ● Published 2018 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 6368811 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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