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100 1 _aTaylor, Robert H.,
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245 1 4 _aThe state in Myanmar /
_cRobert H. Taylor.
260 _aHonolulu :
_bUniversity of Hawaiʻi Press,
_cc2009.
300 _axxv, 555 p. :
_c22 cm.
500 _aExpanded and updated ed. of: The state in Burma. London : C. Hurst & Co, c1987.
505 0 0 _g1.
_tThe Pre-colonial State --
_tThe evolution of the pre-colonial state --
_tThe territorial organization for the pre-colonial state --
_tAuthority relations in the pre-colonial state --
_tFinancing the pre-colonial state --
_tThe agencies of the pre-colonial state --
_tThe legitimacy of the pre-colonial state --
_tPolitics under the pre-colonial state --
_g2.
_tThe Rationalisation of the State, 1825-1942 --
_tTransforming the structures of the state --
_tThe territorial organization of the state --
_tThe rationalization of authority relations --
_tFinancing the rationalized state --
_tThe Shan states under the British --
_tRationalising and expanding the functions of the state --
_tState 'legitimacy' and constitutional policy --
_tNew class and ethnic formations --
_g3.
_tPolitics under the Rationalised State, 1886-1942 --
_tEarly responses to the colonial state --
_tThe emergence of the middle class political elite --
_tThe emergence of Burmese political parties --
_tPeasants and politics under the colonial state --
_tYouth and students in late colonial politics --
_g4.
_tThe Displacement of the State, 1942-1962 --
_tWar, revolution and the state --
_tThe reorganization of the state --
_tThe contestants for state power --
_tOld and new functions of the state --
_tThe rise of alternative authorities --
_tEconomic and social change --
_tThe search for legitimacy --
_g5.
_tReasserting the State, 1962-1987 --
_tThe consequences of the March 2nd coup --
_tTerritorial reorganisation --
_tChanging relations with state authority --
_tThe functions of the state --
_tPolitics under the socialist state --
_g6.
_tThe State Redux, 1988-2008 --
_tThe bankruptcy of Socialist Burma --
_tThe return of army rule --
_tThe renewed contest for state power --
_tOther political parties --
_tThe revival of student politics and other political movements --
_tThe emergence of exile politics --
_tCeasefire agreements and new ethnic political patterns --
_tChange and continuity in state-society relations --
_tThe functions of the state --
_tCourts and the law --
_tEconomic and financial --
_tExternal relations --
_tThe issue of state and regime legitimacy --
_tPolitics within the SLORC/SPDC --
_tAddendum: The Third Constitution of the State in Myanmar --
_tBackground to the 2008 Constitutional Referendum --
_tThe 2008 Constitution --
_tAttitudes towards the draft constitution and the referendum process --
_tA return to competitive politics within the state or against the state? --
_tBibliography pre-1988 --
_tBibliography post-1988.
650 0 7 _aPolitik
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651 0 _aBurma
_xPolitics and government.
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651 7 _aBirma
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