Localising Power in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia: A Southeast Asia Perspective

This book is about how the design of institutional change results in unintended consequences. Proponents of decentralization typically praise it as a process through which local societies and economies can efficiently integrate into the world market or through which local communities can protect themselves against the homogenizing effects of economic globalization. The techno-cratic supporters of neoliberal globalization and their populist opponents, therefore, both value decentralization, ...