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Local Organizations and Urban Governance in East and Southeast Asia - Straddling state and society (Paperback): Benjamin L... Local Organizations and Urban Governance in East and Southeast Asia - Straddling state and society (Paperback)
Benjamin L Read, Robert Pekkanen
R1,491 Discovery Miles 14 910 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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.

Local Organizations and Urban Governance in East and Southeast Asia - Straddling state and society (Hardcover): Benjamin L... Local Organizations and Urban Governance in East and Southeast Asia - Straddling state and society (Hardcover)
Benjamin L Read, Robert Pekkanen
R4,626 Discovery Miles 46 260 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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.

Field Research in Political Science - Practices and Principles (Hardcover): Diana Kapiszewski, Lauren M Maclean, Benjamin L Read Field Research in Political Science - Practices and Principles (Hardcover)
Diana Kapiszewski, Lauren M Maclean, Benjamin L Read
R2,510 Discovery Miles 25 100 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Field research - leaving one's home institution in order to acquire data, information or insights that significantly inform one's research - remains indispensable, even in a digitally networked era. This book, the first of its kind in political science, reconsiders the design and execution of field research and explores its role in producing knowledge. First, it offers an empirical overview of fieldwork in the discipline based on a large-scale survey and extensive interviews. Good fieldwork takes diverse forms yet follows a set of common practices and principles. Second, the book demonstrates the analytic benefits of fieldwork, showing how it contributes to our understanding of politics. Finally, it provides intellectual and practical guidance, with chapters on preparing for field research, operating in the field and making analytic progress while collecting data, and on data collection techniques including archival research, interviewing, ethnography and participant observation, surveys, and field experiments.

Field Research in Political Science - Practices and Principles (Paperback): Diana Kapiszewski, Lauren M Maclean, Benjamin L Read Field Research in Political Science - Practices and Principles (Paperback)
Diana Kapiszewski, Lauren M Maclean, Benjamin L Read
R1,287 Discovery Miles 12 870 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Field research - leaving one's home institution in order to acquire data, information or insights that significantly inform one's research - remains indispensable, even in a digitally networked era. This book, the first of its kind in political science, reconsiders the design and execution of field research and explores its role in producing knowledge. First, it offers an empirical overview of fieldwork in the discipline based on a large-scale survey and extensive interviews. Good fieldwork takes diverse forms yet follows a set of common practices and principles. Second, the book demonstrates the analytic benefits of fieldwork, showing how it contributes to our understanding of politics. Finally, it provides intellectual and practical guidance, with chapters on preparing for field research, operating in the field and making analytic progress while collecting data, and on data collection techniques including archival research, interviewing, ethnography and participant observation, surveys, and field experiments.

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