Personalities, parties, and voters

Journal of Democracy

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 35-49

  Mujani, Saiful ^a,b   Liddle, R William ^c  

^a Yusof Ishak Institute   (Singapore)

^b Universitas Negeri   (Indonesia)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

EID: 77952054607     PISSN: 10455736     EISSN: 10863214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/jod.0.0160     Document Type: Review

References (14)

1. In the Indonesian multiparty system, the incentive is strong for a presidential candidate to broaden his or her electoral base by choosing a running mate from another party.
2. R. William Liddle and Saiful Mujani, "Leadership, Party, and Religion: Explaining Voting Behavior in Indonesia," Comparative Political Studies 40 (July 2007): 832-857 The 2009 surveys were carried out by the Indonesian Survey Institute (Lembaga Survei Indonesia, or LSI), and included 1,800 respondents in April and 1,200 in July. Details of the research methodology are available from the authors.
3. The classic political-science study of the 1955 election is Herbert Feith, The Indonesian Elections of 1955 (Ithaca: Cornell Modern Indonesia Project, 1957).
4. Analyses of the 1999 and 2004 elections emphasizing the role of religion include Dwight King, Halfhearted Reform: Electoral Institutions and the Struggle for Democracy in Indonesia (New York: Praeger, 2003).
5. Anies Baswedan, "Indonesian Politics in 2007: The Presidency, Local Elections and the Future of Democracy," Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies 43 (December 2007): 323-340 (Pubitemid 350090728)
6. Clifford Geertz, The Religion of Java (New York: Free Press, 1960).
7. "Media Panen Iklan Parpol" (Political party ads a media harvest), BBC Indonesia, 31 March 2009.
8. Mudrajad Kuncoro, Tri Widodo, and Ross H. McLeod, "Survey of Recent Developments," Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies 45 (August 2009): 166.
9. D. Roderick Kiewiet, Macroeconomics and Micropolitics: The Electoral Effects of Economic Issues (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983).
10. In our multivariate analysis, the dependent variable is a pair of parties (for example PD voters versus Golkar voters), and the independent variables are our hypothesized explanatory factors-from religious affiliation to perceived national economic condition.
11. Saiful Mujani and R. William Liddle, "Voter Preferences for Presidential/Vice- Presidential Candidates: Public Opinion Trends," LSI, Jakarta, 25-30 May 2009.
12. Hans Antlöv and Sven Cederroth, eds., Elections in Indonesia: The New Order and Beyond (London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2004).
13. Kuskridho Ambardi, "The Making of the Indonesian Multiparty System: A Cartelized Party System and Its Origin" (PhD diss., Ohio State University, 2008);
14. Dan Slater, "Indonesia's Accountability Trap: Party Cartels and Presidential Power after Democratic Transition," Indonesia 78 (2004): 61-92.