Fighting illiberalism with illiberalism: Islamist populism and democratic deconsolidation in Indonesia
The global rise of populist campaigns against democratic governments has revived the long-standing scholarly debate on how democracies can best defend themselves against anti-democratic challenges. While some view an aggressive militant democracy approach as the most effective option, others propose...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of British Columbia
June 2018
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Pacific affairs
Year: 2018, Volume: 91, Issue: 2, Pages: 261-282 |
| Further subjects: | B
Democratization
B Association B Political change B State B Populism B Society B Islam and politics B Political mobilization B Indonesia |
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| Summary: | The global rise of populist campaigns against democratic governments has revived the long-standing scholarly debate on how democracies can best defend themselves against anti-democratic challenges. While some view an aggressive militant democracy approach as the most effective option, others propose accommodation of populist actors and voters. Others again suggest a merging of the two paradigms. This article analyzes how the government of Indonesian President Jokowi has responded to the unprecedented Islamist-populist mobilization in the capital Jakarta in late 2016. Unsystematically mixing elements of all available options, Jokowi’s administration pursued a criminalization strategy against populists that violated established legal norms, and launched vaguely targeted but patronage-oriented accommodation policies. As a result, the government’s attempt to protect the democratic status quo from populist attacks turned into a threat to democracy itself. Indonesian democracy, I argue, is now in a slow but perceptible process of deconsolidation. (Pac Aff/GIGA) |
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| ISSN: | 1715-3379 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Pacific affairs
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5509/2018912261 |