Assessing dynamics of democratisation transformative politics, new institutions, and the case of Indonesia
"Grows out of attempts by academicians and activists to contribute to transformative politics by developing a way of acquiring better contextual sources and analysing the processes and problems of democratisation in a theoretically more inclusive way than in the mainstream assessments that have...
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New York
Palgrave Macmillan
2013
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Table of Contents:
- Table of Contents-- Preface 1. Introduction-- PART I: WHY ALTERNATIVE ASSESSMENTS?-- 2. Democracy, Democratisation and Assessments-- 3. The Origins of Assessments-- 4. Insufficient Structural Analyses-- 5. The Puzzling Third Wave of Democracy-- 6. Unintended Outcome-- 7. Current Positions on Democratisation-- 8. The Case for an Alternative-- 9. The Task Ahead-- 10. Second Thoughts-- 11. Structure of the Book-- 12. The Case of Indonesia-- 13. The Rise and Crisis of Early Democracy-- 14. Broad Agreement: Democracy Premature-- 15. The Old Left and Democracy-- 16. The Rise of a New Democracy Movement and the Overthrow of Dictatorship-- 17. Parachuting the Crafting of Democracy-- 18. The Quest for an Alternative-- 19. Uncertainties-- 20. Tracing the Dynamics of the Anti-Suharto Pro-democracy Actors-- 21. Mapping and Analysing the Post-Suharto Democracy Movement-- 22. Surveying Democracy from Below-- PART II: THE INSTITUTIONS OF DEMOCRACY-- 23. The Institutions of Democracy-- 24. Inclusive Assessments of Institutions 25. Points of Departure-- 26. Beetham's List of Institutions-- 27. Problems and Additions-- 28. The Constitution of Public Affairs and the Demos-- 29. Quality but also Extension, Spread and Form-- 30. Democratic Capacity of Governments-- 31. Beyond Liberal-democratic Institutions-- 32. Realistic Number of Intrinsic Institutions-- 33. The Thirteen Sets of Intrinsic Institutions-- 24. Indonesia's Liberal Turnabout-- 25. Impressive though Deteriorating Freedoms-- 26. Efforts to Improve Governance-- 27. Country-wide Political Community-- 28. Monopolised Representation-- 29. Conclusion-- PART III: ACTORS AND INSTITUTIONS-- 30. The Crucial Actors' and their Relations to the Institutions of Democracy-- 31. The Main Actors-- 32. Actors' Position on Democracy-- 33. Actors' Effect on Institutions-- 34. Institutions' Influence on Actors-- 35. Adaptive Indonesian Elites - and Evasive Pro-democrats-- 36. Politically Strong Dominant Actors and Weak Pro-democrats-- 37. Adaption and Evasion-- 38. The Relative Stability of Democracy Rests with Elitist Inclusion of People-- PART IV: ACTORS AND POWER-- 39. Actors' Political Capacity-- 40. Political Inclusion (versus Exclusion)-- 41. Authority and Legitimacy-- 42. Politicisation and Agenda-setting-- 43. Mobilisation and Organisation-- 44. Participation and Representation-- 45. The Concept of Representation-- 46. The Chain of Popular Sovereignty Approach-- 47. The Direct Democracy Approach-- 48. Unifying Focus on the Priniples of Democratic Representation-- 49. Key Questions-- 50. The 'where-question'-- 51. The 'how question'-- 52. Power Matters: the Case of Indonesia-- 53. Powerful and Hegemonic-- 54. Democrats on the Sidelines-- PART V: ACTORS AND DEMOCRATISATION-- 55. Actor's Strategies and Democratisation-- 56. Strategies and Democratisation-- 57. The Crucial Problems of Democratisation-- 58. De-politicisation of Democracy-- 59. Poor Popular Representation-- 60. Flawed Linkages in the Political System-- 61. The Key Problems of Fragmentation, Representation and Transformation-- 62. Rethinking Indonesian Pro-democrats-- 63. The Historical Legacies-- 64. Rethinking Activists-- 65. Society Driven Projects-- 66. Party-cum-candidate Driven Projects-- 67. Lost Opportunities in Aceh-- 68. The Risks: a Return to the 'politics of order'-- 69. Conclusion-- PART VI: POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS-- 70. From Results to Democracy Promotion-- 71. Research Based Recommendations-- 72. Cooperation with Practitioners-- 73. The Need for Comparative Insights-- 74. Upside Down Comparisons-- 75. The General Case of Transformative Politics-- 76. The Scandinavian Trail-- 77. Social Pact for Inclusive Growth-- 78. Political Conditions-- 79. (1) The Dynamics of Popular Organisation, State and Universal Welfare Programmes-- 80. (2) Unification and Interest-based Representation-- 81. Current Challenges