What kind of economic development curtails clientelistic politics? Most of the literature
addressing this relationship focuses narrowly on vote buying, resulting in theories that …

Indonesia has witnessed the emergence of a market of Islamic goods, services and media
platforms that have catalysed a qualitative shift in the ways individuals come to express their …

Citizenship develops in relation to the specific way in which the colonial state and local
societies reshaped each other. This article traces the history of that relationship in Indonesia …

In this essay we propose an alternative approach to assessing the state of democracy in
Indonesia. We focus not on institutional indicators (as is usually the case) but on …

The article reviews three recent, commendable and important books about the Indonesian
counter-revolution and killings of the mid-1960s. Two case studies by Jess Melvin and …

Elaborates a constructive critique of theoretical and policy literature on welfare and
inequality and theoretical methods for locating changes in welfare policy, institutions, and …

By providing various fascinating first-hand accounts of how citizens negotiate their rights in
the context of weak state institutions, Citizenship and Democratization in Southeast Asia …

Recent scholarship on the shift to the right in Asian democracies has predominantly been
focused on political organisations, leaving social movements outside of them largely …

Overlooked Cities reflects and impacts the changing landscape of urban studies and
geography from the perspective of smaller and more regional cities in the urban South. It …

3 Introduction democratic citizenship takes in postcolonial states. As citizenship is generally
studied in the context of a liberal, high-capacity welfare state, there has been relatively little …