Electoral dynamics in Indonesia: money politics, patronage and clientelism at the grassroots. Edited by Edward Aspinall and Mada Sukmajati. Singapore: NUS Press, 2016, pp. 472. ISBN 978-981-4722-04-9

• Main Author: Moten, Abdul Rashid
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: IIUM Press, International Islamic University Malaysia 2017
• Subjects: JQ Political institutions Asia
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/58014/1/58014_Electoral%20Dynamics%20in%20Indonesia.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/58014/; http://journals.iium.edu.my/intdiscourse/index.php/islam/article/view/1036

The editors of the book under review, Edward Aspinall, a professor of politics at the Australian National University, and Mada Sukmajati, a lecturer at Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, rightly point out that scholars of elections and politics in the Third World do often assert the primacy of patr...