Citizenship and Democratization in Southeast Asia

By providing various fascinating first-hand accounts of how citizens negotiate their rights in the context of weak state institutions, Citizenship and Democratization in Southeast Asia offers a unique bottom-up perspective on the evolving character of public life in democratizing Southeast Asia.

About the author

Ward Berenschot is researcher at KITLV Leiden. He is the author of Riot Politics: Hindu-Muslim Violence and the Indian State (Columbia University Press 2011) and several articles on ethnic violence, public service delivery and access to justice.

Henk Schulte Nordholt is head of research at KITLV Leiden and professor of Indonesian History at Leiden University. He wrote a new history of Southeast Asia, which will appear in Dutch, German, English and Indonesian.

Laurens Bakker is assistant professor at the University of Amsterdam. He works on law, land and violence in Indonesia. He is the editor of several special journal issues and the author of articles and book chapters on these subjects.

Product details

• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.11.2016
• EAN: 9789004327771
• ISBN: 978-90-04-32777-1
• No. of pages: 332
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 241 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 599 g
• Series: Social, Economic and Political
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education