Voting Behavior in Indonesia since Democratization
Critical Democrats
Published on 23. May 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
290 pages
978-1-108-43233-7 (ISBN)
Description
Indonesia is the world's third largest democracy (after India and the USA) and the only fully democratic Muslim democracy, yet it remains little known in the comparative politics literature. This book aspires to do for Indonesian political studies what The American Voter did for American political science. It contributes a major new case, the world's largest Muslim democracy, to the latest research in cross-national voting behavior, making the unique argument that Indonesian voters, like voters in many developing and developed democracies, are 'critical citizens' or critical democrats. The analysis is based on original opinion surveys conducted after every national-level democratic election in Indonesia from 1999 to the present by the respected Indonesian Survey Institute and Saiful Mujani Research and Consulting.
Reviews / Votes
'An ambitious contribution which will serve as a field-defining text in the study of Indonesian electoral behavior.' Nathan Allen, Pacific AffairsMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Paperback (trade)
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Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
474 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-108-43233-7 (9781108432337)
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Saiful Mujani | R. William Liddle | Kuskridho Ambardi
Voting Behavior in Indonesia since Democratization
Critical Democrats
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02/2018
Cambridge University Press
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Persons
Saiful Mujani is Associate Professor of Political Science at Universitas Islam Negeri Syarif Hidayatullah, Jakarta. The founder of Saiful Mujani Research and Consulting (SMRC) and former director of the Indonesian Survey Institute (2004-9), Mujani is the former director of research and development at MetroTV, the first and best Indonesian news channel, regularly appears on MetroTV, TVONE, SCTV, and writes for Tempo, a top national newsweekly, and newspapers Kompas, Media Indonesia, and Koran Tempo. Mujani is the former personal adviser on public opinion to President Yudhoyono (2004-14). He received the Franklin L. Burdette/Phi Sigma Alpha best paper award from the American Political Science Association Annual Conference (2009), and has been published in American Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, the Journal of Democracy, Asian Survey and Japanese Journal of Political Science.
Content
1. Introduction: Indonesia and critical democracy; 2. The emergence of critical democrats: support for democracy and criticism of its performance; 3. Participation and choice; 4. Sociological and demographic factors; 5. Rational voters; 6. Party identity and political leadership; 7. Conclusions.