In 1999, Indonesia embarked on a reform of regional governance that brings self-governance to rural districts and municipalities, i.e., the administrative and democratic capacity needed to apply basic services like healthcare, national legislation and environment policies. This edited volume is the first book, which not only deals with the 1999 legislation but also shows how the deficiencies and contradictions of this legislation reduced implementation between 2001 and 2004 to a try-out. The book also discusses the adaptations that were the focus of the debate on the revision of the 1999...

Warum wurden im vorkolonialen Bali (16.-19. Jh.) die Prinzipien der hofischen Sozialordnung trotz wechselnder Machtkonstellationen nicht effektiv in Frage gestellt? Unter welchen konkreten Bedingungen war die Legitimierung eines individuellen Herrschaftsanspruchs erfolgreich? Inwiefern waren symbolische Praktiken der balinesischen Elite rationale politische Strategien? In Auseinandersetzung mit der Forschung vor und nach Clifford Geertz' Theaterstaat-Modell beschreibt der Autor zunachst die sozio-okonomische Struktur des balinesischen -early state-. Auf Basis der klassischen balinesischen...

How are time-honored tenets of faith, different ritual sensibilities, and newly emerging eschatological imaginaries articulated with other normative registers and moral susceptibilities in disputes? This book examines such questions through cases in Europe, the United States, Israel, Africa, and South and Southeast Asia.