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Political Institutions and Property Rights: Veto Players and Foreign Exchange…
What political institutions improve property rights? Building on the work of North and Weingast, this article argues that institutional checks on policy-making discretion (“veto players”) improve the property rights of investors regarding the value of the domestic currency. Veto players constrain the ability of policy makers to opportunistically pursue policy that may lead to a depreciated dome…
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- Vol. 44 no. 2, February 2011.pp. 211-240
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- 00104140
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- Comparative Political Studies
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Slavery and cultural creativity in the Banda Islands
In his influential edited volume Slavery, bondage and dependency in Southeast Asia, Anthony Reid suggests that long-term slave-based systems of production were absent from agriculture in Southeast Asia, and had an ambiguous presence at best in other areas of economic activity. The argument he presents suggests that indigenous slavery in the region merged into a ‘kind of serfdom or household mem…
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- Volume 41, Number, 3, October 2010. pp. 365-389
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- 00224634
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- Journal of Southeast Asian Studies
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The ‘informal Portuguese empire’ and the Topasses in the Solor archipelag…
This study of Timor and the surrounding islands between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries provides evidence that, after the demise of the Portuguese Estado da India, an ‘informal’ or ‘shadow’ empire persisted but in uniquely localised ways. It describes the emergence of the ‘black Portuguese’ community known in Timor and the Solor archipelago as the Topasses. Their singular identity was ba…
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- Volume 41, Number 3, October 2010.pp.391-420
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- 00224634
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- Journal of Southeast Asian Studies
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The worst of both worlds: Commercial rice production in West Indramayu, 1885â…
This paper deals with the consequences of the increasing commercialisation of the rice industry in west Indramayu from the mid-1880s to the late 1930s. Instead of prosperity as a result of growing rice for sale in a free market, local peasants found their survival being threatened by traders who had them bound to a vicious cycle of debts and who acquired much of the rice they produced. The rice…
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- Volume 41, Number 3, October 2010.pp.421-448
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- 00224634
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- Journal of Southeast Asian Studies
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Living with difference in rural Indonesia: What can be learned for national a…
Much research has sought to understand why mixed communities in Indonesia have been torn apart by violent conflict. By contrast, little is known about how people live together successfully in the mixed, low-conflict communities that exist in abundance throughout the Indonesian archipelago. This paper explores the inter-communal relations in the multiethnic, Christian-Muslim coastal village of O…
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- Volume 41, Number 3, October 2010.pp.449-481
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- 00224634
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- Journal of Southeast Asian Studies
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Unofficial contentions: The postcoloniality of Straits Chinese political disc…
This paper reads the debates of the Straits Settlements Legislative Council to trace the political contentions over policies affecting the Chinese community in Malaya. These contentions brought the Straits Chinese unofficials to engage the racial ambivalence of British rule in Malaya, in which the Straits Chinese was located as both a liberal subject and an object of colonial difference. Contra…
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- Volume 41, Number 3, October 2010.pp.483-507
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- 00224634
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- Journal of Southeast Asian Studies
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Testimony, trauma and performance: Some examples from Southeast Asian theatre
This paper is a reflection on a number of theatre performances held in Singapore, each of which probed problematic or traumatic historical events occurring either in Singapore itself or in other parts of Southeast Asia. These avant-garde performances were inspired by or built around actual testimonies of individuals in ways which, for this author, suggest a striking fluidity in the boundaries b…
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- Volume 41, Number 3, October 2010.pp.509-528
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- 00224634
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- Journal of Southeast Asian Studies
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Localisation, regionalism and the history of ideas in Southeast Asia
Much analysis of Asian regional relations and institutions is written in an historical and cultural vacuum. The impression is often given that security or economic arrangements are comparable with physical structures — creations of engineers rather than social scientists (or even architects). The writings of Amitav Acharya, now Professor of International Affairs at American University in Washin…
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- Volume 41, Number 3, October 2010.pp.541-549
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- 00224634
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- Journal of Southeast Asian Studies
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Conflicting demands and the power of defensive routines in participatory acti…
Participation has been of ongoing interest in the field of action research and the New Health Promotion movement, but it is not without tensions and problems. This article presents the challenge of containing the conflicting demands of personal empowerment, practical advancement and theory building in a community-based participatory action research project ‘Aspiring to Healthy Living in The Net…
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- Vol. 8 no. 4, December 2010.pp. 367-386
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- 14767503
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- Action Research
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Using action research to develop a research aware community pharmacy team
An action research approach was applied to develop a community pharmacy team into a research aware practice. A pharmacy team consisting of a pharmacist and medicine counter assistants carried out this project. They started by reflecting on their own practice and in doing so examined the reliability of the evidence base they used to give advice to customers regarding the sale of medicines. The t…
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- Vol. 8 no. 4, December 2010.pp.387-406
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- 14767503
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- Action Research
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Between idealism and reality: Meeting the sagepub. challenges of participator…
Participatory action research (PAR) is a methodological stance that researchers can find both inspiring and daunting. Community-based PAR offers a platform by which social scientists can contribute to the democratization of knowledge and its production, but also requires that they go beyond conventional roles and procedures to interact with community co-researchers in ways that may leave univer…
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- Vol. 8 no. 4, December 2010 .pp. 407-425
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Participatory photography: A tool for empowerment or surveillance?
Based on a case study of a participatory photography project with a Salvadoran adult literacy program, this article explores some of the challenges and risks that arise when people use cameras to document their lives. The article examines the unanticipated problems the author and participants encountered (i.e. suspicion, timidity, and ridicule), and elucidates how historical and sociocultural f…
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- Vol. 8, no. 4, December 2010.pp. 426-443
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- Action Research
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More Knowledge, Better Government? Consequences of Knowledge-Based Decision M…
Using an example from the health-care sector, we illustrate consequences of implementing knowledge-based decision making relating to the exercise of political control. The Swedish Pharmaceutical Benefits Board decides the subsidization status of prescription pharmaceuticals. Building on a study of the agency's work, we explore the effects of institutional arrangements stemming from rationalisti…
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- Volume 24, Issue 1, January 2011. pages 85–110
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- 09521895
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- Governance
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Traditional Leaders and the Culture of Governance in South Africa
The global neoliberal economic and political order impregnated the emergence of democracy in South Africa. One of the hallmarks of this order is that the capacity of the state to transform society is constrained, particularly in the rural hinterlands. The incapacity of the state to extend its grip, both economically and politically, has provided traditional leaders with an opportunity to both r…
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- Volume 24, Issue 1, January 2011. pages 5–29
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- 09521895
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- Governance
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Power Sharing and Inclusive Politics in Africa's Uncertain Democracies
Power-sharing agreements have been widely used in Africa as paths out of civil war. However, the research focus on conflict mitigation provides an inadequate guide to recent cases such as Kenya and Zimbabwe. When used in response to flawed elections, pacts guaranteeing political inclusion adversely affect government performance and democratization. Political inclusion in these cases undermines …
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- Volume 24, Issue 1, January 2011. pages 31–53
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- Governance
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Transgovernmentalism Meets Security: Police Liaison Officers, Terrorism, and …
Studies of transgovernmental activities have enhanced our understanding of changing global politics, but their claims have not been fully investigated with respect to the security realm. Therefore, this article first acknowledges a gap between the practices and capacities of nonstate entities creating transnational threats and those of state-based agents of response. States' ability to respond …
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- Volume 24, Issue 1, January 2011. pages 55–84
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- Governance
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A Contagious Concept: Explaining the Spread of Privatization in the Telecommu…
Qualitative studies suggest that the spread of privatization of public utilities is due to a change of the economic paradigm and institutional isomorphism pressures. However, current quantitative studies mostly account for domestic factors. These factors can explain differences in national privatization trajectories but cannot explain the large trend. Based on a quantitative analysis of privati…
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- Volume 24, Issue 1, January 2011. pages 111–139
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- 09521895
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Toward a New Era of Administrative Reform? The Myth of Post-NPM in New Zealand
This article explores the supposed shift from New Public Management (NPM) to a new era of “post-NPM” by looking at one critical case, New Zealand. It finds limited evidence of such a shift, suggesting that the wider literature needs to move to a more careful methodological treatment of empirical patterns. To contribute to such a move, this article applies a three-pronged approach to the study o…
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- Volume 24, Issue 1, January 2011, pages 141–166
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- 09521895
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- Governance
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The New York School of Philanthropy, the Bureau of Municipal Research, and th…
This article uses archival research to analyze the role of the New York School of Philanthropy as a precursor to the Bureau of Municipal Research (BMR) Training School, which is generally considered the first professional public administration program in America. The article argues that the two organizations had similar curricula and aspirations in the early Progressive period, particularly fro…
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- Vol. 43 no. 1, January 2011.pp. 3-21
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- 00953997
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- Administration & Society
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Public Organizations and Mission Valence : When Does Mission Matter?
Given the service- and community-oriented nature of organizational goals in the public sector, it is not surprising that public management scholars have highlighted the potential of the missions to be an asset of public organizations. To date, however, little empirical research has investigated ways in which these benefits can be cultivated. The present study of mission valence—based on a sampl…
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- Vol. 43 no. 1, January 2011.pp. 22-44
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- Administration & Society
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