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Indonesia's changing political economy : governing the roads / Jamie S. Davidson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Davidson, Jamie Seth, 1971- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indonesia--Economic policy--1997-.
- Indonesia.
- Indonesia--Politics and government--1998-.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvii, 292 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Indonesia is Southeast Asia's largest economy and freest democracy yet vested interests and local politics serve as formidable obstacles to infrastructure reform. In this critical analysis of the politics inhibiting infrastructure investment, Jamie S. Davidson utilizes evidence from his research, press reports and rarely used consultancy studies to challenge mainstream explanations for low investment rates and the sluggish adoption of liberalizing reforms. He argues that obstacles have less to do with weak formal institutions and low fiscal capacities of the state than with entrenched, rent-seeking interests, misaligned central-local government relations, and state-society struggles over land. Using a political-sociological approach, Davidson demonstrates that 'getting the politics right' matters as much as getting the prices right or putting the proper institutional safeguards in place for infrastructure development. This innovative account and its conclusions will be of interest to students and scholars of Southeast Asia and policymakers of infrastructure investment and economic growth.
- Contents:
- Infrastructure investment and institutions : conceptual concerns and debate
- Legacies of new order governance
- Raising rates, raising capital, losing control
- Big push thwarted
- Ownership
- Local perspectives.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-316-18995-3
- 1-316-19179-6
- 1-316-21214-9
- 1-316-21030-8
- 1-316-20659-9
- 1-316-20844-3
- 1-316-20479-0
- 1-322-88226-6
- 1-316-20295-X
- 1-316-09176-7
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