Half-Hearted Reform: Electoral Institutions and the Struggle for Democracy in IndonesiaBloomsbury Academic, 2003 M04 30 - 256 pages King provides the most comprehensive analysis to date of the reforms in the core institutions of democratic representation, political parties, elections, and legislatures that led the way from late 1998 through 2001. These reforms are placed in historical perspective, compared both with the electoral institutions of Suharto's New Order and with the first democratic election in 1955. King also examines the political struggles during the legislative process and identifies the compromises reached between hardliners and reformers. The new electoral policies are juxtaposed to actual practices—imlpementation—during the 1999 election at both the national and subnational levels, the latter through a case study in the heartland of Java. |
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... regional rep- resentatives ( utusan daerah ) and 65 group representatives ( utusan golongan ) . Each of the twenty - seven regional legislatures elected five regional representatives , in contrast to the old system , under which these ...
... regional leg- islatures were no longer component parts of regional governments , but rather friendly coequals of regional governments . Second , the legislatures were given explicit powers they never had during Suharto's rule . The ...
... regional ties . . . . Estrada targeted the lower classes rather than build an agglomeration of regional support bases . And for the first time in Philippine history , a large part of the lower classes voted along socioeconomic rather ...
Contents
Historical Background | 15 |
Debate and Design | 47 |
Implementation of the 1999 Election | 75 |
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