Sokphea, Y;
(2016)
Popular Resistance in Cambodia: The Rationale Behind Government Response.
Asian Politics & Policy
, 8
(4)
pp. 593-613.
10.1111/aspp.12288.
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Abstract
Agrarian resistance often occurs as a result of expropriation and dispossession of poor farmers’ land and other properties. This paper examines how cost-benefit rational choice determined the government of Cambodia's response to poor farmers’ resistance to large-scale land acquisition for an agro-industrial investment. Theoretically, whatever mechanism a government chooses to respond to resistance, the aim is to retain more benefits, especially political legitimacy. In this study, the government, in collaboration with private companies, opted for a combination of strong repression and partial concession in response to the resistance by the communities. The study argues that this response is basically determined by cost-benefit calculations. However, the purpose is not to retain political legitimacy as theoretically argued, but to protect the economic interests of the client-patron networks that had developed between foreign companies and the powerful local politico-commercial personages associated with the regime.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Popular Resistance in Cambodia: The Rationale Behind Government Response |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1111/aspp.12288 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/aspp.12288 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2016 Policy Studies Organization. This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Sokphea, Y; (2016) Popular Resistance in Cambodia: The Rationale Behind Government Response. Asian Politics & Policy , 8 (4) pp. 593-613, which has been published in final form at 10.1111/aspp.12288. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Anthropology |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1538575 |
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