{"product_id":"the-politics-of-coercion-state-and-regime-making-in-cambodia-hardback-9781501776571","title":"The Politics of Coercion; State and Regime Making in Cambodia (Hardback) 9781501776571","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Politics of Coercion\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eState and Regime Making in Cambodia\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eNeil Loughlin (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781501776571\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 September 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e186 pages, 1 map - 1 Maps\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Politics of Coercion\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e, Neil Loughlin explains the persistence of Cambodia's authoritarian regime for more than four decades.\u003c\/b\u003e It provides a historically grounded investigation of the country's ruling coalition: political elites, many drawn from within the state's coercive apparatus, who, in coordination with state-dependent tycoons, have come to control Cambodia's politics and its economy. Loughlin presents new empirical data foregrounding the coercive underpinnings of the modern Cambodian state and its party, the Cambodian People's Party (CPP).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe focus on coercion reflects the regime's conflict and postconflict evolution and extractive political economy as the ruling coalition failed to channel popular interests through its political institutions, thus resorting either to low-intensity forms of coercion such as intimidation and surveillance or to high-intensity coercion such as violent crackdowns and extrajudicial killings.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThrough a critical reevaluation of the regime's origins and evolution in its relationship with citizens, \u003ci\u003eThe Politics of Coercion\u003c\/i\u003e reconceptualizes the CPP to emphasize the obstacles—structural, institutional, and distributional—to building a mass-based clientelist or developmentally legitimate authoritarian party.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. Chapter 1\u003cbr\u003e 2. Chapter 2\u003cbr\u003e 3. Chapter 3\u003cbr\u003e 4. Chapter 4\u003cbr\u003e 5. Chapter 5\u003cbr\u003e 6. Chapter 6\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Southeast Asia Program Publications","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52608271221016,"sku":"9781501776571","price":85.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-politics-of-coercion-state-and-regime-making-in-cambodia-hardback-9781501776571","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}