Party Politics in Southeast Asia

Dirk Tomsa is Lecturer in the Politics and International Relations Program at La Trobe University, Australia. His main research interests are Indonesian politics, comparative Southeast Asian politics, democratization and party politics. He is the author of Party Politics in Indonesia: Golkar in the Post-Suharto Era. Andreas Ufen is Senior Research Fellow at the German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA), Hamburg, Germany, and Professor of Political Science in Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. His main research interest is politics in Southeast Asia. He is co-editor of Democratization in Post-Suharto Indonesia and recently published a book on the evolution of the Malaysian party system.

• 1. Introduction: Party Politics and Clientelism in Southeast Asia 2. What Type of Party? Southeast Asian Parties between Clientelism and Electoralism 3. Lipset and Rokkan in Southeast Asia: Indonesia in Comparative Perspective 4. Class, Charisma, and Clientelism in Thai and Philippine Populist Parties 5. Anti-Party Attitudes in Southeast Asia 6. Electoral System Choice and Parties in New Democracies: Lessons from the Philippines and Indonesia 7. Bringing Clientelism and Institutions Back In: The Rise and Fall of Religious Parties in Indonesia’s Electoral Democracy 8. Who’s the Perfect Politician? Clientelism as a determining feature of Thai politics 9. Building Local Party Organizations in Thailand: Strengthening Party Rootedness or Serving Elite Interests? 10. Clientelism and Party Politics in the Philippines

"Party Politics in Southeast Asia is another important contribution to the emerging literature on electoral competition across Southeast Asia, and its treat-ment of Indonesia provides useful conceptual insights and empirical data with which to make sense of recent developments in party politics." - Thomas B. Pepinsky Cornell University, Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies