Power Broking in the Shade : Party Finances and Money Politics in Southeast Asia

Introduction : the finances of political parties in Southeast Asia -- Cambodia : tightly controlled by the Cambodian People's Party -- Indonesia : parliamentarians and oligarchs bankrolling the political parties -- Laos : the Lao People's Revolutionary Party -- Malaysia : the funding of perpetual party power -- Myanmar : still experimenting with party competition -- The Philippines : parties, patrons, and pork, or, The privatization of political financing -- Singapore : the "white raven" of Southeast Asia -- Thailand : money politics and party funding, two sides of the same coin -- Vietnam : the single party cannot control everything anymore

• | Author: Wolfgang Sachsenröder
• | Publisher: World Scientific
• | Publication Date: Jul 30, 2018
• | Number of Pages: NA pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 9813230738
• | ISBN-13: 9789813230736