國立虎尾科技大學 |

Brokers and the Roots of Partisanship in Indonesia.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Brokers and the Roots of Partisanship in Indonesia./
Author:	Soderborg, Seth Nathan.
Description:	1 online resource (336 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-05, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International85-05A.
Subject:	Political science. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9798380848756

Brokers and the Roots of Partisanship in Indonesia.
Soderborg, Seth Nathan.

Brokers and the Roots of Partisanship in Indonesia. - 1 online resource (336 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-05, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Harvard University, 2023.

Includes bibliographical references

Why are parties stable and voters loyal when brokers are independent, vote-buying is ubiquitous, rates of party identification are low, intra-party competition is fierce, and ideology is absent? In other words, why might stable partisan voting patterns exist in a place where most of the things believed to generate that stability do not? Drawing on the example of Indonesia, I show that extra-party mobilization networks can produce stable voting patterns in contexts where parties themselves cannot. In Indonesia, extra-party mobilization networks place vote brokers at the center of electoral mobilization for all parties. Links between parties and these mobilization networks provide parties differing levels of access to different kinds of brokers, some with high capacity to deliver votes and other with less. These links explain which parties are stable and which are not. This project draws two-and-a-half years of fieldwork in six provinces of Indonesia, a novel survey of vote brokers using a respondent-driven sampling design, a survey of candidates for legislative office, and an original dataset of local election results collected by hand (2004 - 2009) and scraped from election databases (2014 - 2019). Interviews included candidates for all levels of elected office, election administrators at the national, provincial, and district levels, party leaders, neighborhood leaders, district- and provincial-level religious leaders, and civil servants at the village and subdistrict levels. I show that candidates for office in Indonesia are primarily focused on vote mobilization through brokers. Vote brokers vary widely in their accountability to candidates and their ability to deliver votes. Brokers comprise at least two distinct mobilization networks-one secular and one religious. Vote administrators are a distinct third type of vote broker. Parties with access to more accountable vote brokers perform better than parties without. At the candidate level, there is almost no accountability.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2024

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798380848756Subjects--Topical Terms:

558774
Political science.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Vote brokersIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

Brokers and the Roots of Partisanship in Indonesia.
LDR:03343ntm a2200397K 4500 001 1141328
005 20240311061617.5
006 m o d
007 cr mn ---uuuuu
008 250605s2023 xx obm 000 0 eng d
020 $a 9798380848756
035 $a (MiAaPQ)AAI30639568
035 $a AAI30639568
040 $a MiAaPQ $b eng $c MiAaPQ $d NTU
100 1 $a Soderborg, Seth Nathan. $3 1465040
245 1 0 $a Brokers and the Roots of Partisanship in Indonesia.
264 0 $c 2023
300 $a 1 online resource (336 pages)
336 $a text $b txt $2 rdacontent
337 $a computer $b c $2 rdamedia
338 $a online resource $b cr $2 rdacarrier
500 $a Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-05, Section: A.
500 $a Advisor: Levitsky, Steven R.
502 $a Thesis (Ph.D.)--Harvard University, 2023.
504 $a Includes bibliographical references
520 $a Why are parties stable and voters loyal when brokers are independent, vote-buying is ubiquitous, rates of party identification are low, intra-party competition is fierce, and ideology is absent? In other words, why might stable partisan voting patterns exist in a place where most of the things believed to generate that stability do not? Drawing on the example of Indonesia, I show that extra-party mobilization networks can produce stable voting patterns in contexts where parties themselves cannot. In Indonesia, extra-party mobilization networks place vote brokers at the center of electoral mobilization for all parties. Links between parties and these mobilization networks provide parties differing levels of access to different kinds of brokers, some with high capacity to deliver votes and other with less. These links explain which parties are stable and which are not. This project draws two-and-a-half years of fieldwork in six provinces of Indonesia, a novel survey of vote brokers using a respondent-driven sampling design, a survey of candidates for legislative office, and an original dataset of local election results collected by hand (2004 - 2009) and scraped from election databases (2014 - 2019). Interviews included candidates for all levels of elected office, election administrators at the national, provincial, and district levels, party leaders, neighborhood leaders, district- and provincial-level religious leaders, and civil servants at the village and subdistrict levels. I show that candidates for office in Indonesia are primarily focused on vote mobilization through brokers. Vote brokers vary widely in their accountability to candidates and their ability to deliver votes. Brokers comprise at least two distinct mobilization networks-one secular and one religious. Vote administrators are a distinct third type of vote broker. Parties with access to more accountable vote brokers perform better than parties without. At the candidate level, there is almost no accountability.
533 $a Electronic reproduction. $b Ann Arbor, Mich. : $c ProQuest, $d 2024
538 $a Mode of access: World Wide Web
650 4 $a Political science. $3 558774
650 4 $a Public policy. $3 1002398
650 4 $a Asian studies. $3 1179577
653 $a Vote brokers
653 $a Clientelism
653 $a Election fraud
653 $a Indonesia
653 $a Public opinion
655 7 $a Electronic books. $2 local $3 554714
690 $a 0615
690 $a 0630
690 $a 0342
710 2 $a ProQuest Information and Learning Co. $3 1178819
710 2 $a Harvard University. $b Government. $3 1195292
773 0 $t Dissertations Abstracts International $g 85-05A.
856 4 0 $u http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=30639568 $z click for full text (PQDT)