Localising Power in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia

Vedi Hadiz

Published by Stanford University Press 2010

Localising Power in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia

A Southeast Asia Perspective

Vedi Hadiz

In the series Contemporary Issues in Asia and the Pacific

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780804773522

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This book provides an important statement on the underlying social dynamics of local politics in Indonesia following the end of the New Order in 1998. It represents the culmination of a substantial and influential body of work by Hadiz on the political economy of Indonesia's post-authoritarian transition.

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Vedi R. Hadiz is Associate Professor of Sociology at the National University of Singapore. Most recently, he is the editor of Empire and Neoliberalism in Asia (2006).

Reviews

Loren Ryter:
"In a field dominated by deductivism, Vedi Hadiz writes from the ground up, drawing upon cases that involve struggles over institutional reform, decentralization, and local politics in North Sumatra and East Java. Few observers exhibit so intimate a knowledge of these."

Bernhard Platzdasch:
"This book is, to my knowledge, the best work in English on the exceedingly complex and multi-layered internal dynamics between decentralization, democratization, globalization, and the rivalries among national and local political players in Indonesia. It is thoroughly researched, highly topical, and judicious in its analysis . . . Localizing Power is a first-rate work and compulsory reading for anyone who wishes to comprehend the intricacies and complexities of Indonesia's continuing pursuit to build a mature democracy."

Ehito Kimura:
Hadiz's work "has a theoretically generality that strengthens its appeal to wider audiences. Through the lens of a political economy framework, Hadiz links national and local political change in the wider global context. The work is both original in its ideas and rigorous in its empirical research and offers a trenchant view of the sources of Indonesia's political woes."

Marcus Mietzner:
"In its exposure of corrupt patterns and patronage-driven politics, Hadiz's work is brilliant and so far unrivaled. His evaluation of Indonesian local politics constitutes a crucial counterbalance and corrective to congratulatory descriptions of the country as a role model for newly democratizing states such as Tunisia or Egypt."

David Henley Bijdragen:
"Vedi Hadiz's uncompromising expose of decentralization and democracy in post-authoritarian Indonesia has already become something of a classic. With its grim litany of 'predatory interests', 'money politics', 'political thuggery', and 'illiberal democracy', Localising Power has inspired many other accounts of the Reformasi period and provided an important part of their analytical vocabulary"

Gerry van Klinken, Research fellow:
"This is an important synthetic statement on the underlying dynamics of local politics following the end of the New Order in 1998. Arguing against managerialists who expected decentralization and democratization to lead to greater market openness, Hadiz portrays a messy contestation among social forces at different levels of the polity."

Kevin Hewison:
"This is a path-breaking book—theoretically-informed, carefully researched, and strongly comparative. It shows Hadiz's remarkable efforts to draw on literatures that span Southeast Asia and beyond. Sure to be widely read, it will stimulate debate and become a standard source for years to come."

Edward Aspinall:
"Critical scholarship at its best, this book is a powerful corrective to those who see decentralization as a one-size-fits-all solution to bad governance. Hadiz convincingly argues that Indonesia's decentralization prompted not the positive outcomes its advocates predicted, but a scramble for local power by corrupt politicians, gangsters and other predators."

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Acknowledgments
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Introduction. Localisation and Globalisation
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Chapter One. Decentralisation, Development and Democracy Theoretical Issues and Debates
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Chapter Two. The Post-Authoritarian Context
Technocratic Ambitions and the Challenge of Predatory Power
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Chapter Three. The Localisation of Power and Institutional Change
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Chapter Four. A Political Sociology of Local Elites
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Chapter Five. Money Politics and Thuggery in New Local Democracies
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Chapter Six. The Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion
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Conclusion
Decentralisation, Recentralisation and Globalisation
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Index
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Hadiz, Vedi. Localising Power in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia: A Southeast Asia Perspective, Redwood City: Stanford University Press, 2010. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780804773522

Hadiz, V. (2010). Localising Power in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia: A Southeast Asia Perspective. Redwood City: Stanford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780804773522

Hadiz, V. 2010. Localising Power in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia: A Southeast Asia Perspective. Redwood City: Stanford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780804773522

Hadiz, Vedi. Localising Power in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia: A Southeast Asia Perspective. Redwood City: Stanford University Press, 2010. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780804773522

Hadiz V. Localising Power in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia: A Southeast Asia Perspective. Redwood City: Stanford University Press; 2010. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780804773522

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Language: English

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Copyright year: 2010

Audience: Professional and scholarly;

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Main content: 264

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Published: January 26, 2010

ISBN: 9780804773522