List of illustrations; Acknowledgments; Note on names, Terms, and romanization; 1. Introduction: administration at the grass roots in East and Southeast Asia; 2. The little platoon: structuring the neighborhood; 3. Elections, bogus and bona fide; 4. Power relations at the Alley level; 5. Perceptions and interaction; 6. Thick networks and state-mobilized volunteers; 7. Thin networks and the appeals of organic statism; 8. The landscape of grassroots administration: comparative cases; 9. Conclusion; Appendix 1: research methods; Appendix 2: Beyond the two capitals; Notes; References
Summary
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
Notes
Includes index
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-344) and index
