Cambodia: A Hegemonic Party System in the Making

Peou, Sorpong

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“…However, this engagement was mainly for marketing purposes delivering appropriate products, but not geared to promoting democracy in the manner idealised in the EMES literature (Defourny and Nyssens, 2013). Employees preference for hierarchy in their organisation, typifying the institutionalised patronage in Cambodia (Peou, 2010) and Third Sector tendencies in other authoritarian Asian countries (Lyons and Nivison-Smith, 2008) also bring the commitment to economic democracy into question. LS-ADC amassed physical assets and repaid loans, but it was much less secure than the MSI-C clinic that continued to benefit from international donations.…”

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“…However, this work may not be geared towards democratic participation in community affairs given staffs' personal values related to hierarchy. This is replicated in most Cambodian public institutions including hospitals, schools and government offices where patron-client relationships operate from the highest to the lowest levels (Peou, 2010;Turner, 2013).…”

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Understanding social enterprise, social entrepreneurship and the social economy in rural Cambodia

Lyne

Ngin

Santoyo-Rio³

2018

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Purpose This paper critically assesses Western views on the social economy in contrast to everyday realities in a low-income country, and challenges ethnocentric epistemologies in the discourse of social enterprise and social entrepreneurship that is prevalent in international development. It charts the changing trajectory of the social economy and different influences. Design/methodology/approach Qualitative data is used to explore views of members of social enterprises in Northern Cambodia. Three enterprises with different characteristics were selected. Semi-structured interviews and a group discussion took place in each case, exploring motivation, values, empowerment, participation, equity, innovation and risk appetite. Findings The important roles social enterprises play in rural community development are sometimes at odds with the reasoning of Western development agencies. The social economy in Cambodia is undergoing change with the advancement of capitalist market forces. This suits formal businesses but could exacerbate the exclusion of various community actors. Research limitations/implications Three case studies are in close proximity in Northern Cambodia, and the situated dynamics may not transfer well to other contexts. Some limitations are offset by the selection of different types of social enterprises. Practical implications The study gives insights of value to the designers of programmes or projects to support social enterprise who work within international development agencies and non-government organisations. For academics, it offers critical insight into assumptions about social enterprise that emanate from Western management literature. Originality/value This paper meets the need for close-up inter-disciplinary work on social enterprise development in under-represented contexts.

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Understanding social enterprise, social entrepreneurship and the social economy in rural Cambodia

Lyne

Ngin

Santoyo-Rio³

2018

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“…The prince fled to France, several FUNCINPEC elements were removed from the government, and dozens political executions took place. The event dealt a severe blow to the royalist opposition: the party disintegrated into five factions, and Ranariddh was, in absentia, convicted to 18 months in jail (Peou 1999;Downie 2000). Although the prince returned on royal pardon, FUNCINPEC recorded declines in the following elections, its share of the votes 34 The effectiveness of this strategy is evident from public opinion polls conducted in Cambodia.…”

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The Political Economy of Social Upgrading

Marslev¹

2022

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Based on a Marxist reworking of the global value chains (GVC) framework, supplemented by insights from structuralist development economics and dependency theory, the thesis investigates what role evolving class relations play in processes of social and economic upgrading in global garment value chains. Situating workers’ agency at the intersection of a horizontal axis (local capital-labor-state relations) and a vertical axis (governance and distributional dynamics of the GVC), the thesis starts out by examining the key features of the 21st century garment GVC and their implications for producer countries. It is shown how a series of interrelated processes, including the transition to neoliberalism in the North, and the phase-out of quotas in the South, combined to produce a “supplier squeeze” in the garment GVC, with a simultaneous depression of export prices and an escalation of non-price requirements. Drawing on the work of the dependentista Marini, it is argued that these distributional dynamics amount to a form of unequal exchange that incentivizes manufacturers to super-exploit workers, pushing their wages below reproduction costs and/or working them beyond exhaustion.

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“…Winning national elections has allowed the CPP to take control of the National Assembly and the Senate. Much has been written about this (Peou, 2011(Peou, , 2014, but it is important to stress that Cambodia has (since the violent putsch in July 1997) held a number of national assembly, Senate, and commune elections, but all of them have resulted in the CPP's greater control of the legislature. The CPP's political control of the Senate and the communes remains relatively unchanged.…”

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Cambodia’s hegemonic-party system: How and why the CPP became dominant

Peou

2018

Asian Journal of Comparative Politics

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This article seeks to shed light on how and why the Cambodian People’s Party (the CPP) emerged and became dominant in the multi-party system formally introduced to Cambodia when the United Nations intervened in the early 1990s. Historical factors, relative power, leadership, and tactics matter a great deal. Hun Sen has been in power for more than 30 years and his effectiveness can be attributed to three tactics: coercion, co-option, and control. The post-Cold War environment also made it possible for the CPP government to use these tactics successfully, as major powers preferred to work with Hun Sen or did little to undermine him.

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Cambodia: A Hegemonic Party System in the Making

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Understanding social enterprise, social entrepreneurship and the social economy in rural Cambodia

Understanding social enterprise, social entrepreneurship and the social economy in rural Cambodia

The Political Economy of Social Upgrading

Cambodia’s hegemonic-party system: How and why the CPP became dominant

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