Voting Behavior in Indonesia since Democratization
Critical Democrats

The first scientific analysis of Indonesian voting behavior from democratization in 1999 to the most recent general election in 2014.

Saiful Mujani (Author), R. William Liddle (Author), Kuskridho Ambardi (Author)

9781108421799, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 26 February 2018

286 pages
23.5 x 15.6 x 2 cm, 0.51 kg

'An ambitious contribution which will serve as a field-defining text in the study of Indonesian electoral behavior.' Nathan Allen, Pacific Affairs

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.

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.

Subject Areas: Political economy [KCP], Regional government policies [JPRB], Regional government [JPR], Comparative politics [JPB], Politics & government [JP]