Description
In The Candidate's Dilemma, Elisabeth Kramer tells the story of how three political candidates in Indonesia made decisions to resist, engage in, or otherwise incorporate money politics into their electioneering strategies over the course of their campaigns.
As they campaign, candidates encounter pressure from the institutional rules that guide elections, political parties, and voters, and must also negotiate complex social relationships to remain competitive. For anticorruption candidates, this context presents additional challenges for building and maintaining their identities. Some of these candidates establish their campaign parameters early and are able to stay their course. For others, the campaign trail results in an avalanche of compromises, each one eating away at their sense of what constitutes "moral" and "acceptable" behavior. The Candidate's Dilemma delves into the lived experiences of candidates to offer a nuanced study of how the political and personal intersect when it comes to money politics, anticorruptionism, and electoral campaigning in Indonesia.
Author: Elisabeth Kramer
Publisher: Southeast Asia Program Publications
Published: 06/15/2022
Pages: 216
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.08lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d
ISBN13: 9781501764028
ISBN10: 1501764020
BISAC Categories:
- History | Asia | Southeast Asia
- Political Science | Political Process | Campaigns & Elections
- True Crime | General
About the Author
Elisabeth Kramer is Deputy Director at the Sydney Southeast Asia Centre and Honorary Associate at the School of Languages and Cultures at the University of Sydney. Follow her on Twitter @liskramer.