Patronage Driven Democracy: Emerging Local Politics in the post-Soeharto Indonesia

Wawan Sobari.

Jan 2017 · Airlangga University Press

About this ebook

This work builds on the research for my PhD in the Department of Politics and Public Policy, the Flinders University of South Australia. Many people and institutions have contributed to complete my study. I cannot mention all of them here, but I have to mention a few.

Associate Professor Janet McIntyre, the principal supervisor and academic adviser during my research higher degree study. She encouraged me to better understanding human value-rationality, contexts and pragmatism in the issues of power and democracy. Dr Craig Matheson has expanded my understanding of rational irrationality in voting that shaped my work at the early stage.

Prof Dr Yogi Sugito (the former Rector of Universitas Brawijaya) and Prof Dr Darsono Wisadirana (Dean of Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Universitas Brawijaya) who strongly encouraged me to study abroad. Prof Ifar Subagio PhD and his staffs at the International Office of Universitas Brawijaya had given me administrative and financial supports. My colleagues at the Political Science Department, Universitas Brawijaya, particularly to Dr Sholih Muadi, Wawan E. Kuswandoro, M.Si, and M. Faishal Aminuddin, M.Si who voluntarily assisted me with logistic and data supports during the fieldwork. Also, to Dwi Budi Santosa PhD for his permit to use local budget (APBD) data collected in the project of East Java Public Expenditure Analysis.

About the author

Wawan Sobari is a lecturer in the Department of Political Science at Universitas Brawijaya in Malang, Indonesia. He was the awardee of International Fellowship Program of Ford Foundation in 2005 to pursue his MA in the Netherlands. Wawan gained his PhD in Politics and Public Policy from Flinders University, Australia in 2015. He is also a senior researcher at the Jawa Pos Institute of Pro-Otonomi (JPIP). In addition to local politics and decentralisation, his research interests include governance, political entrepreneurship, policy analysis and democracy.