TY - JOUR
T1 - Parliament and patronage
AU - Aspinall, Edward
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 National Endowment for Democracy and Johns Hopkins University Press.
PY - 2014/10/1
Y1 - 2014/10/1
N2 - Analysing the 9 April 2014 legislative elections in Indonesia, this article presents a case study of patronage politics in an open-list proportional-representation electoral system. Under this system, candidates focus on increasing their personal vote rather than votes for their party. Most candidates did so in the 2014 elections by relying on personal brokerage networks rather than party machines. They also distributed material rewards—including individual gifts, club goods, and pork barrel projects—to voters, and engaged in straightforward vote buying. The paper concludes by suggesting that, in order to move beyond clientelism, Indonesia needs to explore options for electoral reform.
AB - Analysing the 9 April 2014 legislative elections in Indonesia, this article presents a case study of patronage politics in an open-list proportional-representation electoral system. Under this system, candidates focus on increasing their personal vote rather than votes for their party. Most candidates did so in the 2014 elections by relying on personal brokerage networks rather than party machines. They also distributed material rewards—including individual gifts, club goods, and pork barrel projects—to voters, and engaged in straightforward vote buying. The paper concludes by suggesting that, in order to move beyond clientelism, Indonesia needs to explore options for electoral reform.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84907676959&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1353/jod.2014.0070
DO - 10.1353/jod.2014.0070
M3 - Comment/debate
SN - 1045-5736
VL - 25
SP - 96
EP - 110
JO - Journal of Democracy
JF - Journal of Democracy
IS - 4
ER -