Edward Aspinall

Mobilizing for Elections (eBook, ePUB)

Patronage and Political Machines in Southeast Asia

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Politicians in Southeast Asia, as in many other regions, win elections by distributing cash, goods, jobs, projects, and other benefits to supporters, but the ways in which they do this vary tremendously, both across and within countries. Mobilizing for Elections presents a new framework for analyzing variation in patronage democracies, focusing on distinct forms of patronage and different networks through which it is distributed. The book draws on an extensive, multi-country, multi-year research effort involving interactions with hundreds of politicians and vote brokers, as well as surveys of voters and political campaigners across the region. Chapters explore how local machines in the Philippines, ad hoc election teams in Indonesia, and political parties in Malaysia pursue distinctive clusters of strategies of patronage distribution - what the authors term electoral mobilization regimes. In doing so, the book shows how and why patronage politics varies, and how it works on the ground.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009084147
• Artikelnr.: 66176988

Autorenporträt

Edward Aspinall is Professor of Political Science and Social Change at the Australian National University. He is the author of Opposing Suharto: Compromise, Resistance and Regime Change in Indonesia (2005), Islam and Nation: Separatist Rebellion in Aceh, Indonesia (2009) and Democracy for Sale: Elections, Clientelism and the State in Indonesia (2019, with Ward Berenschot).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Patronage and Political Machines in Southeast Asia
2. Historical and Institutional Foundations: National Parties, Ad Hoc Teams, and Local Machines
4. Targeting Individuals: Don't You Forget About Me
5. Targeting Groups: Pork Barreling and Club Goods
6. Hijacked Programs: Using Public Policy for Patronage Purposes
7. Patronage and Identity: Domesticating Difference
8. Subnational Variation: Violence, Hierarchy, and Islands of Exception
9. Conclusion: Patterns, Permutations, and Policy Implications.