This might sound like a cliche, but in Indonesia it's really, really true. My hope rests in the Indonesian people and the voters. I mean, the voters, they show up. The voters have been the ones to defend democracy. They've been the ones to reject the most anti-pluralistic candidates, not all Indonesian voters, but a slim majority. They've been managing to do it.
Dan Slater
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Dan Slater is the Weiser Professor of Emerging Democracies in the Department of Political Science and director of the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies at the University of Michigan. Dan is also the coauthor of the forthcoming book From Development to Democracy: The Transformations of Modern Asia with Joseph Wong.
Key Highlights
- A brief account of how Indonesia democratized
- What is democratization through strength
- How elites held onto power after democratization
- What makes Indonesia a hard place for democracy
- The current state of Indonesia's democracy
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From Development to Democracy: The Transformations of Modern Asia by Dan Slater and Joseph Wong
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