Indonesia's Changing Political Economy: Governing the Roads
Jan 2015 · Cambridge University Press
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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.
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,...
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Jamie S. Davidson received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Washington, and is currently Associate Professor of Political Science at the National University of Singapore. His previous books include From Rebellion to Riots: Collective Violence on Indonesian Borneo (2008) and The Revival of Tradition in Indonesian Politics: The Deployment of Adat from Colonialism to Indigenism (with David Henley, 2007).
Jamie S. Davidson received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Washington, and is currently Associate Professor of Political Science at the National University of Singapore. His previous books include From Rebellion to Riots: Collective Violence on Indonesian Borneo (2008) and T...
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