Benjamin L. Read is an assistant professor in the Politics Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz.Robert Pekkanen is chair of the Japan Studies Program and an associate professor at the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington in Seattle.

• 1. State-Linked Associational Life: Illuminating Blind Spots of Existing Paradigms 2. Japan’s Neighborhood Associations: Membership without Advocacy 3. Swaying Between State and Community: The Role of RT/RW in Post-Suharto Indonesia 4. The Mutual Colonization of State and Civil Society Organizations in Vietnam 5. Municipal Governments and the Role of Cooperative Community Groups in Thailand 6. The Multiple Uses of Local Networks: State Cultivation of Neighborhood Social Capital in China and Taiwan 7. The Sign of the Cross: Vertical and Horizontal Tensions in Vietnamese Church-State Relations 8. State Shaping of Community-Level Politics: Residents’ Committees in Singapore

Benjamin L. Read is an assistant professor in the Politics Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz.Robert Pekkanen is chair of the Japan Studies Program and an associate professor at the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington in Seattle.

• 1. State-Linked Associational Life: Illuminating Blind Spots of Existing Paradigms 2. Japan’s Neighborhood Associations: Membership without Advocacy 3. Swaying Between State and Community: The Role of RT/RW in Post-Suharto Indonesia 4. The Mutual Colonization of State and Civil Society Organizations in Vietnam 5. Municipal Governments and the Role of Cooperative Community Groups in Thailand 6. The Multiple Uses of Local Networks: State Cultivation of Neighborhood Social Capital in China and Taiwan 7. The Sign of the Cross: Vertical and Horizontal Tensions in Vietnamese Church-State Relations 8. State Shaping of Community-Level Politics: Residents’ Committees in Singapore

Benjamin L. Read is an assistant professor in the Politics Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz.Robert Pekkanen is chair of the Japan Studies Program and an associate professor at the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington in Seattle.

• 1. State-Linked Associational Life: Illuminating Blind Spots of Existing Paradigms 2. Japan’s Neighborhood Associations: Membership without Advocacy 3. Swaying Between State and Community: The Role of RT/RW in Post-Suharto Indonesia 4. The Mutual Colonization of State and Civil Society Organizations in Vietnam 5. Municipal Governments and the Role of Cooperative Community Groups in Thailand 6. The Multiple Uses of Local Networks: State Cultivation of Neighborhood Social Capital in China and Taiwan 7. The Sign of the Cross: Vertical and Horizontal Tensions in Vietnamese Church-State Relations 8. State Shaping of Community-Level Politics: Residents’ Committees in Singapore