Synapse
⌘+K
Synapse
PulseExploreClubsResearchersJournals
Instagram
HomeClubsExplore
January 1, 2013Indonesia

The Political Economy of Oligarchy and the Reorganization of Power in Indonesia

View Full Paper
Ask AI
Bookmark
Share

Authors

VHVedi R. HadizRRRichard Robison

Discussion

Loading...

Member takes

Overview

Political economy analysis reveals persistent oligarchic power structures during democratic transitions in post-Suharto Indonesia, highlighting systemic institutional resilience.

Key Points

  • Defend and elaborate the oligarchy thesis to explain how elite power structures endure and adapt across democratic and market transitions in post-Suharto Indonesia.
  • Applied a structural political economy framework to evaluate post-authoritarian institutional and market changes.
  • Analyzed elite political conflicts occurring both prior to and following regime transitions to trace changes in the social order.
  • Demonstrates that democratic and market reforms did not dismantle entrenched power cartels, allowing ruling elites to reorganize and retain dominant authority.
  • Confirms the continuing explanatory utility of the oligarchy framework for understanding the coexistence of formal democratic competition with durable elite domination.

Cite This Study

Hadiz et al. (2013) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a1b5bb990759efe6f0c47f2https://doi.org/10.1353/ind.2013.0023
View Full Paper
Ask AI
Bookmark
Share

Also Consider

Synapse has enriched 3 closely related papers on similar clinical questions. Consider them for comparative context:

  1. 1Indonesia in Transition: Social Aspects of Reformasi and Crisis2001 · 66 citations
  2. 2The New Order and the Economy1967 · 4 citations
  3. 3The free economy and the strong state: the politics of Thatcherism1989 · 396 citations