Democracy for Sale

Edward Aspinall is Professor of Politics at the Australian National University. He is the author of several books, among them Opposing Suharto and Islam and Nation, and the coedited volume Electoral Dynamics in Indonesia. Ward Berenschot is a researcher at KITLV Leiden and the author of Riot Politics and the co-edited volume In Search of Middle Indonesia.

A painstakingly researched examination of the way Indonesia has become a patronage democracy.... Aspinall and Berenschot's book shows how many has weakened political parties, ensures that personalities matter more than policy, favors incumbents, and almost forces politicians to become corrupt in order to recoup the expense of running for office.(New York Review of Books) Democracy for Sale offers deep insights into political life in Southeast Asia and fresh contributions to the age-old debate over whether true democracy, uncompromised by money and entrenched power, is ever possible.(Foreign Affairs)

• List of Tables and FiguresGlossaryAcknowledgments1. Indonesia's Patronage Democracy2. Capturing Varieties of ClientelismPart 1: INSTITUTIONS3. Historical Origins of Free-Wheeling Clientelism4. Electoral Institutions, Political Parties and CandidatesPart 2: NETWORKS AND RESOURCES5. Success Teams and Vote Buying6. Social Networks and Club GoodsPart 3: DISCRETIONARY CONTROL7. Governance and Public Spending8. Bureaucrats and the Power of OfficePart 4: COMPARING ACROSS INDONESIA9. Campaign Financing, Business and the Public Sphere10. Explaining Variation in Indonesia's Patronage DemocracyConclusion: Clientelism and the Search for Good GovernanceAppendixesNotesReferencesIndex