1. A distinctive path; 2. Democratization before renovation; 3. Creeping reform: reconfiguring the political infrastructure; 4. A game of inches; 5. Anomalies, ironies, regularities, and surprises; 6. The shape of the new system; 7. Low-quality democracy and its discontents; 8. Causes, consequence, and the consequences of consequences.
This is the story of how democracy became entrenched in the world's largest Muslim-majority country.
Donald L. Horowitz is the James B. Duke Professor of Law and Political Science at Duke University. He is the author of The Courts and Social Policy (1977), winner of the Louis Brownlow Award of the National Academy of Public Administration; The Jurocracy (1977), a book about government lawyers; Coup Theories and Officers' Motives: Sri Lanka in Comparative Perspective (1980); Ethnic Groups in Conflict (1985, 2000); A Democratic South Africa? Constitutional Engineering in a Divided Society (1991), winner of the Ralph Bunche Award of the American Political Science Association; and The Deadly Ethnic Riot (2001). Horowitz has been a visiting professor at the University of Chicago Law School and the Central European University as well as a visiting fellow at Wolfson College, Cambridge, at the Law Faculty of the University of Canterbury in New Zealand and at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. In 2001, he was Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics and in 2001–2002, he was a Carnegie Scholar. In 2009, he was presented with the Distinguished Scholar Award of the Ethnicity, Nationalism and Migration Section of the International Studies Association. Horowitz is currently writing a book about constitutional design, particularly for divided societies, a subject on which he has advised in a number of countries. In 2010–11, he was a fellow of the Woodrow Wilson Center. In 2011–12, he was a Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow at the US Institute of Peace and in 2013, he will be a fellow of the American Academy in Berlin. Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1993, he served as president of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy from 2007 to 2010. In 2011, Horowitz was awarded an honorary doctoral degree by the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, the Flemish-speaking Free University of Brussels.
'The country's remarkable steps toward democracy have inspired a
recent proliferation of original works, and this is one of the best
… Its politics long ignored, the world's fourth-largest country is
now firmly on the academic scene, and in Horowitz's hands adding
new insights about the process of democratic transitions.
Recommended. Upper-division undergraduate, graduate, research and
professional collections.' E. V. Schneier, Choice
'Horowitz's excellent Constitutional Change and Democracy in
Indonesia provides a compelling account of Indonesia's
transformation from an authoritarian regime to a constitutional
democracy, detailing why particular models and institutions came to
be chosen over various alternatives … Horowitz's work is
impressively rigorous and comprehensive.' Simon Butt, Journal of
the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia
'Horowitz's study of the post-1998 Indonesian constitution-making
process, its outcomes and its consequences has the depth of an area
specialist's work, and yet the theoretical embedding of political
science at its best.' Adriaan Bedner, Journal of the Humanities and
Social Sciences of Southeast Asia
'Indonesia remains the only country in Southeast Asia to be rated
'free' in Freedom House's annual survey of political rights and
civil liberties. In the wider context of the Muslim world,
certainly, this rare situation is significant in showing that this
combination of Islam and constitutionalism can lead to the
checks-and-balances mechanisms that are vital to democracy. Donald
L. Horowitz's brilliant book Constitutional Change and Democracy in
Indonesia evaluates and explains the process, the outcome and the
ongoing struggle of the Indonesian democracy.' Nadirsyah Hosen,
Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia
'Constitutional Change and Democracy in Indonesia is a complex and
fascinating book that should become an essential reference for
scholars of party competition and institutional development in
Indonesia.' Thomas B. Pepinsky, Bulletin of Indonesian Economic
Studies
'In this remarkable book, Donald Horowitz finds the answer to
Indonesia's democratic resilience in a medley of factors: starting
conditions, fortuitous timing, consensual elites and viscous but
free-moving social forces, producing a benign kinetic that he
labels 'multipolar fluidity' … Horowitz offers a sumptuous and
thoughtful account. His book will hold obvious appeal for the
legions of dedicated Indonesianists.' William Case, Pacific
Affairs
'Rich in empirical detail as well as comparative reflections,
Horowitz's book provides a masterful step-by-step account of how
Indonesia chose a 'gradual, insider-dominated, elections-first
[approach to] constitution making' (p. 262), and how this
particular choice helped Indonesia to consolidate its democracy …
Horowitz's book is the best to appear so far on Indonesia's
surprising emergence as one of the great democratic success stories
of the last two decades.' Marcus Mietzner, Journal of Democracy
''Democracy without democrats' - that is how Indonesia since 1998
could be described … So should we admire it, or condemn it? This is
the puzzle Donald Horowitz addresses in this magisterial book.'
Gerry van Klinken, Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of
Southeast Asia
'… Donald L. Horowitz's Constitutional Change and Democracy in
Indonesia … delivers an incredibly detailed and often fascinating
narrative.' Dirk Tomsa, Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs
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