Milk Coffee at 10 Am: Encountering the State Through Pllkada in North Sumatra

Simandjuntak, Deasy

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“…The character of these direct elections for district heads ( bupati or, in cities, walikota ) and governors are the focus of this article. Some observers consider these elections to be highly clientelistic, dubbing Indonesia a “patronage democracy” ( Nordholt & van Klinken, 2007 ; Simandjuntak, 2009 ; van Klinken, 2009 ) run by “predatory elites” ( Hadiz, 2010 ; Winters, 2011 ). Others have argued that an increasingly vocal civil society is using newly gained civil liberties to curtail clientelistic practices ( Mietzner, 2012 ; Stanley, Priyono, & Törnquist, 2004 ).…”

Section: Indonesia’s Patronage Democracymentioning

confidence: 99%

The Political Economy of Clientelism: A Comparative Study of Indonesia’s Patronage Democracy

Berenschot

2018

Comparative Political Studies

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What kind of economic development curtails clientelistic politics? Most of the literature addressing this relationship focuses narrowly on vote buying, resulting in theories that emphasize the importance of declining poverty rates and a growing middle class. This article employs a combination of ethnographic fieldwork and an expert survey to engage in a first-ever, more comprehensive comparative study of within-country variation of clientelistic politics. I find a pattern that poorly matches these dominant theories: Clientelism is perceived to be less intense in rural, poverty-prone Java, while scores are high in relatively wealthy yet state-dependent provincial capitals. On the basis of these findings, I develop an alternative perspective on the relationship between economic development and clientelism. Emphasizing the importance of societal constraints, I argue that the concentration of control over economic activities fosters clientelism because it stifles the public sphere and inhibits effective scrutiny and disciplining of politico-business elites.

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Section: Indonesia’s Patronage Democracymentioning

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The Political Economy of Clientelism: A Comparative Study of Indonesia’s Patronage Democracy

Berenschot

2018

Comparative Political Studies

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“…It also has a distinctive bearing on subjects' relations to themselves and to others, inflecting all aspects of social life. A classic liberal democracy, for example, affords a form of sociality in which members can and do disagree publicly (Long 2006), where they periodically enjoy the thrill (or the burden) of evaluating what kind of person they would most like to be in authority over them (Simandjuntak 2009), and where individual citizens discipline themselves (and each other) to obey the law and fulfil their obligations towards the state (Cruikshank 1999). All these relations are part of the same dynamic system -which is why we find it helpful to talk of democracy as a 'total way of life' rather than simply a political principle or administrative technique.…”

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Introduction: When Democracy ‘Goes Wrong’

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Moore³

2022

The State We're In

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This essay sets out a new theoretical model for understanding why citizens might turn away from democracy. We argue that democracy is best understood as a mode of sociality, a dynamic matrix of relations in which ethically imaginative human subjects are embedded. As such, when people come to reject or abandon the democratic ideal, they do so because it can no longer capture their ethical imagination. This is a process that is best understood by investigating subjectivity in its broadest sense, including an attention to fantasy, affect, and the body alongside a study of processes of ethical reflection and rational deliberation. We show how this model of political subjectivity adds new layers of understanding to three lines of explanation commonly advanced to explain why citizens might lose faith in democracy: that democratic statecraft contains inherent contradictions; that citizens are becoming dissatisfied with the poor quality of democratic governance; and that representative democracy has been slowly eviscerated by a post-democratic turn to managerialism.

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Milk Coffee at 10 Am: Encountering the State Through Pllkada in North Sumatra

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The Political Economy of Clientelism: A Comparative Study of Indonesia’s Patronage Democracy

The Political Economy of Clientelism: A Comparative Study of Indonesia’s Patronage Democracy

Introduction: When Democracy ‘Goes Wrong’

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