The Islamization of politics in Indonesia after 1998 presents an underexplored puzzle: why
has there been a rise in the number of shari'a laws despite the electoral decline of Islamist …

Populist politics have become more prominent in Indonesia. On the one hand, this is
indicated by the presidential elections of 2014, when two rival candidates brandished …

Indonesia is alternately lauded as a democratization success story and derided as an
exemplar of low-quality democracy. This article explains both Indonesian democracy's …

A new form of Islamic populism has evolved in many parts of the Muslim world. Its
emergence is part of the more universal phenomenon of populist responses to the …

Indonesia has approximately 240 million people, and more than 85% of the population are
Muslims. Whilst incidents of religious intolerance have frequently been reported in the mass …

Large portions of East and Southeast Asia are in the throes of a historically unprecedented
upsurge in religious observance and association. Many of the new varieties of religiosity are …

Democracy promotion in postconflict states begins with the problem of order. Democracy
cannot be in a context where violence or the threat of violence is pervasive and suffuses the …

The paper presents the outlines of a coherent, structural, long term account of the socio-
economic and political evolution of the Arab republics that can explain both the persistence …

This article analyzes why, how and to what extent Indonesia's once staunchly Islamist
Prosperous Justice Party (Partai Keadilan Sejahtera; PKS) has become more moderate …

Institutions figure prominently in explanations for why radical parties forego their agendas
and subject themselves to democratic principles when included in politics. Analyzing the …