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Populist Anti-Scientism, Religious Polarisation, and Institutionalised Corruption: How Indonesia’s Democratic Decline Shaped Its COVID-19 Response by Mietzner, Marcus

“…There is widespread agreement that compared to most other states in Southeast Asia, Indonesia’s central government has offered a poor response to the…”
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Democracy and Military Oversight in Crisis: The Failed Civilianisation of Indonesia’s Ministry of Defence by Mietzner, Marcus

“…In 1998, Indonesia endeavoured to civilianise its defence department after decades of military-dominated rule. This civilianisation project was widely seen as…”
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Political Conflict Resolution and Democratic Consolidation in Indonesia: The Role of the Constitutional Court by Mietzner, Marcus

“…This article argues that Indonesia's Constitutional Court has played a significant role in that country's transformation from a violence-prone polity into…”
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Fighting the Hellhounds: Pro-democracy Activists and Party Politics in Post-Suharto Indonesia by Mietzner, Marcus

“…In the literature on post-Suharto Indonesia, an increasingly dominant stream has portrayed the political system as being hijacked by predatory elite interests…”
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Praetorian rule and redemocratisation in South-East Asia and the Pacific Islands: the case of Indonesia by Mietzner, Marcus

“…Indonesia is an almost ideal case study to test a variety of explanatory propositions for the rise and fall of military regimes. Over the course of 50 years,…”
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Overcoming Path Dependence: The Quality of Civilian Control of the Military in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia by Mietzner, Marcus

“…Theorists of civil-military relations have for long tried to identify the specific factors that lead to weak civilian control of the armed forces in some…”
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Authoritarian innovations in Indonesia: electoral narrowing, identity politics and executive illiberalism by Mietzner, Marcus

“…In the last decade, autocrats and democrats alike have used a wide range of innovative illiberal methods to cement or expand their power. Especially in…”
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Fighting Illiberalism with Illiberalism: Islamist Populism and Democratic Deconsolidation in Indonesia by Mietzner, Marcus

“…Abstract The global rise of populist campaigns against democratic governments has revived the long-standing scholarly debate on how democracies can best defend…”
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Sources of resistance to democratic decline: Indonesian civil society and its trials by Mietzner, Marcus

“…Amidst a global wave of democratic regression, civil society has often been the last line of defence against campaigns to undermine liberal rights and…”
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The limits of autocratisation in Indonesia: power dispersal and elite competition in a compromised democracy by Mietzner, Marcus

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Mutinies, coups and military interventionism: Papua New Guinea and South-East Asia in comparison by Mietzner, Marcus, Farrelly, Nicholas

“…Scholars of civil-military relations have long been puzzled by the fact that despite a series of mutinies, Papua New Guinea (PNG) has never seen a full-blown…”
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Rival populisms and the democratic crisis in Indonesia: chauvinists, Islamists and technocrats by Mietzner, Marcus

“…Viewed as a stable democracy for much of the 2000s and early 2010s, Indonesia has in recent years been part of the global populist surge. In fact, national…”
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HOW JOKOWI WON AND DEMOCRACY SURVIVED by Mietzner, Marcus

“…[...]the president's popularity collapsed-dropping from 75 percent in November 2009 to 47 percent in June 2011 and 30 percent by May 2013.4 It only recovered…”
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Coups, military consolidation and redemocratisation in South-East Asia and the Pacific by Mietzner, Marcus, Farrelly, Nicholas

“…Military interventions break the rules. They require the mobilisation of men and materiel, alongside a commitment to rapid action and often violence, in the…”
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Indonesia's 2014 Elections: How Jokowi Won and Democracy Survived by Mietzner, Marcus

“…This article discusses the 2014 presidential elections in Indonesia, which saw a strong populist challenge launched against the country’s young democracy…”
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Jokowi’s Pyrrhic Victory: Indonesia’s 2024 Elections and the Political Reinvention of Prabowo Subianto by Mietzner, Marcus

“…Prabowo Subianto's victory in Indonesia's 2024 presidential elections was decisive, and it is widely accepted that incumbent President Joko Widodo's de facto…”
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Southeast Asia's Troubling Elections: Nondemocratic Pluralism in Indonesia by Aspinall, Edward, Mietzner, Marcus

“…Though pluralism and democracy are generally seen as being mutually supportive, recent developments in Indonesia suggest that they can also be in tension. Over…”
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Explaining the 2016 Islamist Mobilisation in Indonesia: Religious Intolerance, Militant Groups and the Politics of Accommodation by Mietzner, Marcus, Muhtadi, Burhanuddin

“…There has been an intense scholarly debate about what caused the unprecedented Islamist mass demonstrations in Indonesia in late 2016. Some scholars have…”
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Indonesia's democratic stagnation: anti-reformist elites and resilient civil society by Mietzner, Marcus

“…As Egypt and Tunisia begin difficult democratic transitions, comparative political scientists have pointed to the world's largest Muslim nation, Indonesia, as…”
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Young Soeharto: The Making of a Soldier, 1921-1945, by David Jenkins by Mietzner, Marcus

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