Outputs (88)

Indonesia in 2024: Prabowo, Patronage, and Power Plays (2025)
Journal Article
Buehler, M. (2025). Indonesia in 2024: Prabowo, Patronage, and Power Plays. Asian Survey, 65(2), 263-274. https://doi.org/10.1525/as.2025.65.2.263

Indonesia in 2024 witnessed significant political, economic, and social developments. February’s elections resulted in the controversial victory of Prabowo Subianto and Gibran Rakabuming Raka as president and vice president, raising concerns about de... Read More about Indonesia in 2024: Prabowo, Patronage, and Power Plays.

Institutional Reforms and Political Context: An Evaluation of the Indonesia Procurement Modernization Project (2024)
Journal Article
Buehler, M., Greif, A., Nataatmadja, R., Meijerink, M., & Nichols, A. (2024). Institutional Reforms and Political Context: An Evaluation of the Indonesia Procurement Modernization Project. Asia policy, 19(3), 117-152. https://doi.org/10.1353/asp.2024.a934568

Unity through Division: Re-evaluating Democracy in Indonesia (2024)
Journal Article
Buehler, M. (2024). Unity through Division: Re-evaluating Democracy in Indonesia. Asia policy, 19(2), 210-212. https://doi.org/10.1353/asp.2024.a927101

Do discriminatory laws have societal origins? The diffusion of anti-Ahmadiyah regulations in Indonesia (2023)
Journal Article
Buehler, M. (2023). Do discriminatory laws have societal origins? The diffusion of anti-Ahmadiyah regulations in Indonesia. Politics and Religion, 16(3), 468-491. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1755048323000081

Government laws and regulations discriminating against religious minorities are on the rise worldwide. Scholars have debated whether or not society-based discrimination is a pre-condition for government-based discrimination. Examining an original dat... Read More about Do discriminatory laws have societal origins? The diffusion of anti-Ahmadiyah regulations in Indonesia.

Intra-Ethnic Fragmentation and the Politics of Ethnically Decentralising Constitutional Change in Pakistan: A Comparative Study (2022)
Thesis
Salman Rafi, H. M. Intra-Ethnic Fragmentation and the Politics of Ethnically Decentralising Constitutional Change in Pakistan: A Comparative Study. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Within the literature on the politics of ethnic conflict resolution via constitutional reforms, ethnic ‘majorities’ are often presumed to oppose constitutional forms of power-sharing (ethnic decentralisation). In this thesis, I challenge this assumpt... Read More about Intra-Ethnic Fragmentation and the Politics of Ethnically Decentralising Constitutional Change in Pakistan: A Comparative Study.

Limitations to subnational authoritarianism: Indonesian local government head elections in comparative perspective (2021)
Journal Article
Buehler, M., Nataatmadja, R., & Anugrah, I. (2021). Limitations to subnational authoritarianism: Indonesian local government head elections in comparative perspective. Regional & Federal Studies, 31(3), 381-404. https://doi.org/10.1080/13597566.2021.1918388

In recent years, a sizeable literature on subnational authoritarian regimes in democracies has emerged. In some countries local authoritarian enclaves have persisted despite the democratization of politics at the national level. Even more intriguing,... Read More about Limitations to subnational authoritarianism: Indonesian local government head elections in comparative perspective.

Review of Carlos Gervasoni (2018). Hybrid Regimes within Democracies: Fiscal Federalism and Subnational Rentier States, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. (2021)
Journal Article
Buehler, M. (2021). Review of Carlos Gervasoni (2018). Hybrid Regimes within Democracies: Fiscal Federalism and Subnational Rentier States, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. Publius: The Journal of Federalism, 51(3), 25-27. https://doi.org/10.1093/publius/pjab006

Indonesia in 2020: Pestilence and Incompetence (2021)
Journal Article
Buehler, M. (2021). Indonesia in 2020: Pestilence and Incompetence. Asian Survey, 61(1), 106-114. https://doi.org/10.1525/as.2021.61.1.106

The coronavirus dominated Indonesian politics in 2020. Rather than propelling Indonesia in new directions, however, the pandemic amplified existing political and societal dynamics.

Authoritarian diasporas in Indonesia and the Philippines: comparative perspectives on elite survival and defection (2020)
Journal Article
Buehler, M., & Nataatmadja, R. (2020). Authoritarian diasporas in Indonesia and the Philippines: comparative perspectives on elite survival and defection. Democratization, 28(3), 521-538. https://doi.org/10.1080/13510347.2020.1832084

The article compares the political trajectories of authoritarian diasporas in Indonesia and the Philippines, namely the subset of former regime officials that disperse across the electoral space after a regime transition. The main finding is that aft... Read More about Authoritarian diasporas in Indonesia and the Philippines: comparative perspectives on elite survival and defection.

Regulating the regulators: Regulators, contracts and corruption in Indonesia’s upstream oil and gas sector (2020)
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Buehler, M. (2020). Regulating the regulators: Regulators, contracts and corruption in Indonesia’s upstream oil and gas sector. Northcote, Vic