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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451085403321

Autore

Hughes Caroline

Titolo

The political economy of Cambodia's transition, 1991-2001 [[electronic resource] /] / Caroline Hughes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : RoutledgeCurzon, 2003

ISBN

1-135-78654-2

1-280-05602-9

0-203-22175-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (271 p.)

Classificazione

83.32

Disciplina

320.9596/09/049

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Cambodia Economic conditions

Cambodia Politics and government 1979-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-254) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents

Sommario/riassunto

Cambodia underwent a triple transition in the 1990s: from war to peace, from communism to electoral democracy, and from command economy to free market. This book addresses the political economy of these transitions, examining how the much publicised international intervention to bring peace and democracy to Cambodia was subverted by the poverty of the Cambodian economy and by the state's manipulation of the move to the free market. This analysis of the material basis of obstacles to Cambodia's democratisation suggests that the long-established theoretical link between economy and democracy sta