Constitutional Change and Democracy in Indonesia
How did democracy became entrenched in the world's largest Muslim-majority country? After the fall of its authoritarian regime in 1998, Indonesia pursued an unusual course of democratization. It was insider-dominated and gradualist and it involved free elections before a lengthy process of cons...
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| Format: | eBook Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge [England] ; New York
Cambridge University Press
2013
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| Edition: | 1 |
| Series: | Problems of International Politics |
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| ISBN: | 1107027276, 1107641152, 9781107641150, 9781107027275 |
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Table of Contents:
- Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Map of Indonesia -- Glossary -- 1 A Distinctive Path -- Endowment and Choice -- Indonesia's Processual Deviations -- An Improbable Democracy -- The Logic of a Transition -- The Hidden Hand of History: Four Aversive Memories -- 2 Democratization Before Renovation -- The Starting Conditions -- The Piecemeal Renovation -- Starting Down the Democratic Path -- The Dramatis Personae of Reform -- 3 Creeping Reform Reconfiguring the Political Infrastructure -- Haunted by History -- The Electoral System: foreign mode ls and partisan advantage -- The Regulation of Parties and the Fear of Fragmentation -- The Changing Legislature: first steps -- Changing the Unitary State -- The Emerging Conventions of Politics -- Sources of Party Proliferation -- A Legitimate Election -- Step by Step -- 4 A Game of Inches -- Constitutional Headwinds -- Tentative First Steps -- Gus Dur: Obdurate but Not Durable -- A Formula to Elect the President: france meets Nigeria in Jakarta -- Overcoming History? -- 5 Anomalies, Ironies, Regularities, and Surprises -- The Devolution Revolution -- Persistent Apprehension and Incumbent Self-Interest: the revised party and election laws -- Breaching the Barriers to Entry: the 2004 elections -- The Majority Requirement for President in a Fragmented Party System -- Winners and Losers -- Starting Blueprints versus Incremental Decisions -- Incrementalism and Coherence -- 6 The Shape of the New System -- The Emerging Presidency -- The New Regional System -- The Emerging Party System -- The Central-Regional Interplay -- The Recurrent Fixation on Fragmentation -- Interpreting the 2009 DPR Results -- Majoritarianism and the Presidency -- A First-Round President -- Three Biases: large-party, pro-incumbent, and anti-regional -- 7 Low-Quality Democracy and Its Discontents -- The Quality-of-Democracy Issue
- An Incomplete Agenda: controlling the armed forces -- The Corruption Surfeit -- The Rule of Law Deficit -- The Inadequate Protection of Minorities -- Democratic Quality and the New Political System -- 8 Causes, Consequences, and the Consequences of the Consequences -- The Origins and Results of the Indonesian Process -- Institutional Choices and Their Effects -- The Consequences of the Consequences -- Governing Habits and the Future of Democracy -- Can the Indonesian Experience Travel? -- Index