This edited collection brings together enterprising pieces of new
research on the many forms of organization in East and Southeast
Asia that are sponsored or mandated by government, but engage
widespread participation at the grassroots level. Straddling the
state-society divide, these organizations play important roles in
society and politics, yet remain only dimly understood. This book
shines a spotlight on this phenomenon, which speaks to fundamental
questions about how such societies choose to organize themselves,
how institutions of local governance change over time, and how
individuals respond to and make use of the power of the state. The
contributors investigate organizations ranging from volunteer-based
organizations that partner with government in providing services
for homeless children, to state-managed networks of neighborhood-
or village-level associations that perform representative as well
as administrative functions and seeks to answer a number of
questions: When do the "vertical," top-down imperatives of the
state stifle "horizontal" solidarities, and when might the two work
in harmony? Are useful social and administrative purposes served by
this type of fusion? Does it amplify or merely muffle citizens'
voices? What does it tell us about existing accounts of community,
social capital, "synergy," "complementarity," "subsidiarity," and
related concepts? Representing seven countries: China, Japan,
Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, Taiwan, and Singapore this volume
will be of interest to undergraduates, postgraduates and academics
in Asian studies, political science, sociology, anthropology,
development, history, nonprofit studies.
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