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    Democracy for Sale
    Elections, Clientelism, and the State in Indonesia

    Edward Aspinall (Author), Ward Berenschot (Author)

    9781501732980

    Paperback / softback, published 15 April 2019

    330 pages, 4 b&w line drawings, 2 maps, 2 charts - 2 Charts - 2 Maps - 4 Line drawings, black and white
    22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm, 0.907 kg

    A painstakingly researched examination of the way Indonesia has become a patronage democracy.... Aspinall and Berenschot's book shows how many has weakened political parties, ensures that personalities matter more than policy, favors incumbents, and almost forces politicians to become corrupt in order to recoup the expense of running for office.

    (New York Review of Books)

    Democracy for Sale offers deep insights into political life in Southeast Asia and fresh contributions to the age-old debate over whether true democracy, uncompromised by money and entrenched power, is ever possible.

    (Foreign Affairs)

    Democracy for Sale is an on-the-ground account of Indonesian democracy, analyzing its election campaigns and behind-the-scenes machinations. Edward Aspinall and Ward Berenschot assess the informal networks and political strategies that shape access to power and privilege in the messy political environment of contemporary Indonesia.

    In post-Suharto Indonesian politics the exchange of patronage for political support is commonplace. Clientelism, argue the authors, saturates the political system, and in Democracy for Sale they reveal the everyday practices of vote buying, influence peddling, manipulating government programs, and skimming money from government projects. In doing so, Aspinall and Berenschot advance three major arguments. The first argument points toward the role of religion, kinship, and other identities in Indonesian clientelism. The second explains how and why Indonesia's distinctive system of free-wheeling clientelism came into being. And the third argument addresses variation in the patterns and intensity of clientelism. Through these arguments and with comparative leverage from political practices in India and Argentina, Democracy for Sale provides compelling evidence of the importance of informal networks and relationships rather than formal parties and institutions in contemporary Indonesia.

    List of Tables and Figures
    Glossary
    Acknowledgments
    1. Indonesia's Patronage Democracy
    2. Capturing Varieties of Clientelism
    Part 1: INSTITUTIONS
    3. Historical Origins of Free-Wheeling Clientelism
    4. Electoral Institutions, Political Parties and Candidates
    Part 2: NETWORKS AND RESOURCES
    5. Success Teams and Vote Buying
    6. Social Networks and Club Goods
    Part 3: DISCRETIONARY CONTROL
    7. Governance and Public Spending
    8. Bureaucrats and the Power of Office
    Part 4: COMPARING ACROSS INDONESIA
    9. Campaign Financing, Business and the Public Sphere
    10. Explaining Variation in Indonesia's Patronage Democracy
    Conclusion: Clientelism and the Search for Good Governance
    Appendixes
    Notes
    References
    Index
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