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DR Michael Buehler's 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.

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.

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.

"Try to be more like Norway on a Sunny Day!" Regulatory Capitalism and the Challenges of Combatting Corruption in Indonesia's Upstream Oil and Gas Sector Supply Chains (2020)
Journal Article
Buehler, M. (2020). "Try to be more like Norway on a Sunny Day!" Regulatory Capitalism and the Challenges of Combatting Corruption in Indonesia's Upstream Oil and Gas Sector Supply Chains. Oil, gas and energy law, 4,

How to achieve sustainability in natural resource-based supply chains has become a pressing question in light of mounting global demands to address the economic and social consequences of natural resource extraction. A major obstacle to sustainabilit... Read More about "Try to be more like Norway on a Sunny Day!" Regulatory Capitalism and the Challenges of Combatting Corruption in Indonesia's Upstream Oil and Gas Sector Supply Chains.

A research agenda for studying legislative incumbent turnover in new democracies, using Indonesia as a case study (2019)
Journal Article
Buehler, M., & Nataatmadja, R. (2019). A research agenda for studying legislative incumbent turnover in new democracies, using Indonesia as a case study. South East Asia Research, 27(3), 203-224. https://doi.org/10.1080/0967828X.2019.1642027

Legislative incumbent turnover rates are an important indicator for the quality of a democracy. Low turnover rates may indicate the presence of oligarchic structures while high turnover rates may be a sign of political instability. Yet, there is litt... Read More about A research agenda for studying legislative incumbent turnover in new democracies, using Indonesia as a case study.

Authoritarian Regime Durability : An Analysis of Cambodia’s Coercion-Dominant Winning Coalition (2019)
Thesis
Loughlin, N. Authoritarian Regime Durability : An Analysis of Cambodia’s Coercion-Dominant Winning Coalition. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

In one guise or another, the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) has dominated Cambodia for almost half a century, much longer than any other modern Cambodian political organization and despite UN intervention, the introduction of electoral democracy and... Read More about Authoritarian Regime Durability : An Analysis of Cambodia’s Coercion-Dominant Winning Coalition.