R William Liddle
Biographic Data
| ID | 378654 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R William Liddle |
| GIVEN NAMES | R William |
| FAMILY NAME | Liddle |
| SIGNATURE | LIDDLE R W |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Ohio State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 55 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 337 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 55 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Islamism and Muslim Support for Islamist Movement Organizations
Does ideology predict public support for Islamist movement organizations (IMOs)? This article is to reassess the extent to which ideology matters to support social movement organizations among Muslims. A previous quantitative study in Indonesia found that Islamic ideology did not explain support for IMO such as Darul Islam. We reject the finding based on new Indonesian data. We examined Muslim support for three contemporary IMOs: FPI, HTI, and IS…
Indonesia
Democracy in Indonesia is under attack from within. Despite high levels of democratic commitment from voters and elites, President Joko Widodo has sidelined democracy for the sake of economic development, his avowed main priority. Under his tenure, free elections have been threatened, civil liberties have declined, corruption fighters and legislative checks weakened, and the armed forces’ role in civilian affairs has grown. Elected local official…
Conclusion
The resurgence of Islam in private and public life, in Indonesia and elsewhere, is one of the most important phenomena of our time. Its implications for politics and society are also widely misunderstood. Piety among Indonesian Muslims is essentially unrelated to most of the basic problems of political and economic life that analysts of religion and public life have addressed. Instead, the social and economic transformations that are co-occurring…
Islam and the World
Recent scholarship on Islam and world politics asks how Muslims relate with the United States, but has conceived of foreign policy preferences in simplistic, pro- or anti-US terms. This chapter examines how Islamic revivalism shapes foreign policy attitudes in Indonesia, introducing a flexible methodology for capturing both the multidimensionality and nonexclusivity of Indonesian Muslims’ views of the West, the Muslim World, East Asia, and Southe…
Islam and Party Politics
Islamic political parties and social organizations have capitalized upon economic grievances to win popular support. But existing research has been unable to disentangle the role of Islamic party ideology from programmatic economic appeals and social services in explaining these parties’ popular support. This chapter demonstrates that Islamic party platforms function as informational shortcuts to Muslim voters, and confer a political advantage on…
Conceptualizing and Measuring Piety
This chapter develops a new way to measure piety among Indonesian Muslims. It begins by arguing that piety is a property of individuals that is unobservable, multifaceted, and apolitical, and then draws on an original survey of Indonesians to create a new index of piety that can be used to study how piety relates to other political attitudes and beliefs. The chapter shows that piety in Indonesia is unrelated to beliefs about religion and politics…
Piety and Public Opinion
Across the Muslim world, religion plays an increasingly prominent role in both the private and public lives of over a billion people. Observers struggle to understand the consequences of this Islamic resurgence. Will democratic political participation by an increasingly religious population lead to victories by Islamists at the ballot box? Will more conspicuously pious Muslims participate in politics and markets in a fundamentally different way t…
Voting Behavior in Indonesia since Democratization
Indonesia is the world's third largest democracy (after India and the USA) and the only fully democratic Muslim democracy, yet it remains little know in the comparative politics literature
Indonesia's Democratic Performance
How democratic is contemporary Indonesia? While analysts differ, Indonesian citizens, when asked in systematic public opinion surveys conducted regularly by the authors since 1999, consistently express strong support for democratic principles and also believe that their country's democratic performance is high. Support for democratic performance is highly correlated with support for government performance, as measured by perceptions of the condit…
Producing Indonesia
Improving the Quality of Democracy in Indonesia
Page range: 59-80
Improving the Quality of Democracy in Indonesia
Testing Islam's Political Advantage
Across the Muslim world, Islamic political parties and social organizations have capitalized upon economic grievances to win votes and popular support. But existing research has been unable to disentangle the role of Islamic party ideology from programmatic economic appeals and social services in explaining these parties' popular support. We argue that Islamic party platforms function as informational shortcuts to Muslim voters, and only confer a…
Giacomo Sani
Our dear friend and respected colleague Giacomo Sani died on Sunday, June 20, 2010, in Milan, Italy, at the age of 78. He is survived by his wife, Marina Dotti, his children, Giulia and Laura, and two grandchildren
Indonesia
In Indonesia's third national elections since democratization in 1999, incumbent President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono easily won reelection, while his Democratic Party tripled its vote from the previous 2004 election. Voters in the parliamentary and presidential contests, held in April and July 2009, were motivated, according to two author-conducted nationwide opinion surveys, by support for individual leaders and candidates, the influence of media…
Muslim Indonesia's Secular Democracy
After a decade of democracy, secular political parties dominate Muslim-majority Indonesia. Explanations include a historical pattern of religious pluralism, policies of President Suharto's New Order, creative Muslim responses to those policies, a large majority of moderate Muslim voters, and ineffective voter mobilization by Islamist parties today
Leadership, Party, and Religion
This case study tests the significance of leadership, party identification, religious orientation, political economy, and sociological and demographic factors in the legislative and presidential choices of voters in the new Indonesian democracy. Data were obtained from four national opinion surveys conducted by the authors following parliamentary elections in 1999 and 2004 and the two-round presidential election in 2004. Bivariate and multivariat…
Indonesia in 2005
Newly elected President Yudhoyono and Vice President Kalla scored successes despite initial lack of parliamentary support. Kalla took control of Golkar, the largest party, and a tentative peace was achieved in Aceh. Economic policy was entrusted to a strong team of technocrats. Military relations with the United States were fully restored
Political Leadership and Civilian Supremacy in Third Wave Democracies
Introduction The praetorian problem how to establish and maintain control over the armed forces by elected officials is one of the most critical challenges facing Third Wave democracies.1 Among East Asian cases, South Korea appears to have successfully met this challenge, while Indonesia has not. In South Korea, a highly politicized armed forces faction was effectively subdued, two former presidents were jailed and the role of military intelligen…
Year one of the Yudhoyono–Kalla duumvirate
In the first year of their government, the joint leadership of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and Vice President Jusuf Kalla is reminiscent of Indonesia's first presidential and vice presidential team, the duumvirate or dwitunggal of President Sukarno and Vice President Mohammad Hatta. Though not without its weaknesses, the Yudhoyono–Kalla duumvirate is more likely to be successful than its predecessor, whose dissolution led to the overthrow …
Indonesia in 2004
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, a retired army officer, became Indonesia's first directly elected president, defeating incumbent Megawati Sukarnoputri in a landslide. Key positions in economic ministries were awarded both to pro-market and protectionist groups. A suicide bomb killed nine people and wounded nearly 200, intensifying the nation's search for al-Qaeda-linked terrorists
Indonesia’s Approaching Elections
While many Muslims in Indonesia-the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country-believe that laws should be broadly in accord with Islam, relatively few support policies advocated by Islamist activists. At the mass level, Islamism is a rural rather than an urban phenomenon. Islamist leaders may be alienated urbanites, but their followers are disproportionately rural and subscribe to a particularly rural-Indonesian understanding of religion and …
Remembering Dayan Dawood
(2001). REMEMBERING DAYAN DAWOOD. Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies: Vol. 37, No. 3, pp. 305-307
Indonesia in 2000 a Shaky Start for Democracy
Research Article| February 01 2001 INDONESIA IN 2000 A Shaky Start for Democracy R. William Liddle R. William Liddle Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Asian Survey (2001) 41 (1): 208–220. https://doi.org/10.1525/as.2001.41.1.208 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Searc…
Indonesia in 1999
Research Article| January 01 2000 Indonesia in 1999: Democracy Restored R. William Liddle R. William Liddle Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Asian Survey (2000) 40 (1): 32–42. https://doi.org/10.2307/3021218 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation R. W…
The Islamic Turn in Indonesia
In December 1995, the Association of Indonesian Muslim Intellectuals, ICMI (Ikatan Cendekiawan Muslim se-Indonesia), held its second national congress in Jakarta (Kompas, December 4-10, 1995; Republika, December 4-10, 1995; Gatra, December 9 and 16, 1995; Forum Keadilan, January 1, 1996; Ummat, December 11, 1995). Twelve hundred delegates, representing 42,000 members from all Indonesian provinces and from many Indonesian Islamic communities abroa…
Leadership, Party, and Religion
This case study tests the significance of leadership, party identification, religious orientation, political economy, and sociological and demographic factors in the legislative and presidential choices of voters in the new Indonesian democracy. Data were obtained from four national opinion surveys conducted by the authors following parliamentary elections in 1999 and 2004 and the two-round presidential election in 2004. Bivariate and multivariat…
The Relative Autonomy of the Third World Politician
Journal Article The Relative Autonomy of the Third World Politician: Soeharto and Indonesian Economic Development in Comparative Perspective Get access R. William Liddle R. William Liddle The Ohio State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Quarterly, Volume 35, Issue 4, December 1991, Pages 403–427, https://doi.org/10.2307/2600948 Published: 01 December 1991
Testing Islam's Political Advantage
Across the Muslim world, Islamic political parties and social organizations have capitalized upon economic grievances to win votes and popular support. But existing research has been unable to disentangle the role of Islamic party ideology from programmatic economic appeals and social services in explaining these parties' popular support. We argue that Islamic party platforms function as informational shortcuts to Muslim voters, and only confer a…
Indonesia
In Indonesia's third national elections since democratization in 1999, incumbent President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono easily won reelection, while his Democratic Party tripled its vote from the previous 2004 election. Voters in the parliamentary and presidential contests, held in April and July 2009, were motivated, according to two author-conducted nationwide opinion surveys, by support for individual leaders and candidates, the influence of media…
Indonesia’s Approaching Elections
While many Muslims in Indonesia-the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country-believe that laws should be broadly in accord with Islam, relatively few support policies advocated by Islamist activists. At the mass level, Islamism is a rural rather than an urban phenomenon. Islamist leaders may be alienated urbanites, but their followers are disproportionately rural and subscribe to a particularly rural-Indonesian understanding of religion and …
Muslim Indonesia's Secular Democracy
After a decade of democracy, secular political parties dominate Muslim-majority Indonesia. Explanations include a historical pattern of religious pluralism, policies of President Suharto's New Order, creative Muslim responses to those policies, a large majority of moderate Muslim voters, and ineffective voter mobilization by Islamist parties today
Indonesia
Democracy in Indonesia is under attack from within. Despite high levels of democratic commitment from voters and elites, President Joko Widodo has sidelined democracy for the sake of economic development, his avowed main priority. Under his tenure, free elections have been threatened, civil liberties have declined, corruption fighters and legislative checks weakened, and the armed forces’ role in civilian affairs has grown. Elected local official…
Soeharto's Indonesia
S TRONG POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS have not been a hallmark of Third World governments. With few exceptions, colonialism in Asia and Africa left a legacy of only rudimentary governmental institutions and even less-formed political party and interest group organizations. In these structureless environments, personal rule has been the almost inevitable alternative. Strong individuals, typically supported by armies, installed themselves in presidential …
Indonesia's Democratic Past and Future
Very briefly, from 1950 until about 1957 Indonesia was a representative democracy. The country had no democratic experience prior to its 1945 declaration of independence from Dutch and Japanese colonial rule. Since the late 1950s, it experienced two types of authoritarianism, the personal rule of President Sukarno's Guided Democracy until 1965 and the army-backed New Order of President Soeharto from 1966 to the present. At the turn of the 1990s, …
Indonesia
Indonesia: Suharto's Tightening Grip R. William Liddle (bio) On 11 March 1996, Indonesia's President Suharto celebrated the thirtieth anniversary of then–President Sukarno's signing of an executive order that enabled Suharto, then a general, to complete his rise to national power. Sukarno's action legitimized Suharto's personal control over the armed forces, his banning of the Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI), and a series of subsequent steps t…
Suharto and His Generals. Indonesian Military Politics, 1975-1983
Indonesia’s Democratic Opening
ON 21 MAY 1998, INDONESIA'S AUTHORITARIAN PRESIDENT SUHARTO, in power since 1966, abruptly resigned from office and was succeeded by his vice-president, Bacharuddin Jusuf (B. J.) Habibie. Though retired for decades, Suharto was an army general and relied heavily on the support of the armed forces to rule this vast archipelago, the world's fourth largest country. Habibie is a civilian with long government service as minister of research and indust…
Ethnicity, Party, and National Integration
Indonesia in 2004
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, a retired army officer, became Indonesia's first directly elected president, defeating incumbent Megawati Sukarnoputri in a landslide. Key positions in economic ministries were awarded both to pro-market and protectionist groups. A suicide bomb killed nine people and wounded nearly 200, intensifying the nation's search for al-Qaeda-linked terrorists
The politics of development policy
Indonesia's Threefold Crisis
Indonesia's Threefold Crisis R. William Liddle (bio) On 8 June 1992, President Suharto celebrated his seventy-first birthday. He has been president of the Republic of Indonesia since March 1967, and is only the second person to hold that office. Indonesia's highest constitutional body, the People's Consultative Assembly, has given him its mandate on six occasions: in March 1967, when he was chosen acting president; in March 1968, when he became f…
The Politics of Shared Growth
Politicians and analysts who favor more egalitarian development policies in the Third World are at an impasse. Most of the current literature on the politics of what we might call shared growth, defined as economic development with widely dispersed opportunities to produce and consume, is trapped in one of two culs de sac. Mainstream or liberal scholars are committed to the idea of direct participation by the poor, organized in peasant and labor …
Evolution from Above
Western evaluations of the prospects for economic development in Indonesia seem to have come full circle in the past twenty years. The initially positive appraisals of the immediate post-independence period, based on the extensiveness of untapped resources, the apparent commitment of Indonesian leaders to development within a framework of parliamentary institutions and "rational" planning, and the euphoric Zeitgeist produced by newly-won independ…
Indonesia's Democratic Performance
How democratic is contemporary Indonesia? While analysts differ, Indonesian citizens, when asked in systematic public opinion surveys conducted regularly by the authors since 1999, consistently express strong support for democratic principles and also believe that their country's democratic performance is high. Support for democratic performance is highly correlated with support for government performance, as measured by perceptions of the condit…
The Politics of Ekonomi Pancasila
Human Rights and East Timor
Political Leadership and Civilian Supremacy in Third Wave Democracies
Introduction The praetorian problem how to establish and maintain control over the armed forces by elected officials is one of the most critical challenges facing Third Wave democracies.1 Among East Asian cases, South Korea appears to have successfully met this challenge, while Indonesia has not. In South Korea, a highly politicized armed forces faction was effectively subdued, two former presidents were jailed and the role of military intelligen…
Year one of the Yudhoyono–Kalla duumvirate
In the first year of their government, the joint leadership of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and Vice President Jusuf Kalla is reminiscent of Indonesia's first presidential and vice presidential team, the duumvirate or dwitunggal of President Sukarno and Vice President Mohammad Hatta. Though not without its weaknesses, the Yudhoyono–Kalla duumvirate is more likely to be successful than its predecessor, whose dissolution led to the overthrow …
Indonesia in 1999
Research Article| January 01 2000 Indonesia in 1999: Democracy Restored R. William Liddle R. William Liddle Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Asian Survey (2000) 40 (1): 32–42. https://doi.org/10.2307/3021218 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation R. W…
Suku Simalungun
Ethnicity, Party and National Integration
Ethnicity, Party, and National Integration
Evolution from Above
Western evaluations of the prospects for economic development in Indonesia seem to have come full circle in the past twenty years. The initially positive appraisals of the immediate post-independence period, based on the extensiveness of untapped resources, the apparent commitment of Indonesian leaders to development within a framework of parliamentary institutions and "rational" planning, and the euphoric Zeitgeist produced by newly-won independ…
Cultural and Class Politics in New Order Indonesia
Examines the aliran (streams, ways of life, comprehensive patterns of social integration with a political party as organizational core) theme from the perspective of how it helps in understanding the dynamics of the present New Order regime - the nature of the power structure on which the New Order rests, the patterns of conflict within the regime and between it and its opponents, and the probability of its continuation in power.
Indonesia 1976
IN THE PAST ten years, the foundation of military rule in Indonesia appears to have been set in concrete. On that foundation sits a structure-the New Order regime-made of less certain materials. Less certain still is the position of the architect and chief builder, President Suharto, who confronts a growing number of detractors from both within and outside the regime. Suharto's position in the New Order has been based on a number of factors: his …
The 1977 Indonesian Election And New Order Legitimacy
the cause of this tension was the difference between what the government said and what it did, between the stated commitment to build Panca Sila Democracy and the general perception of few-holds-barred manipulations designed to ensure government victory and opposition defeat. The effect was that, despite a 62% popular majority, the government's goal of maintaining its right to rule through electoral processes was not achieved. Ongoing conflicts o…
Indonesia 1977
"Jill Jolliffe's "East Timor
An American's view
(1980). An American's view. Asian Studies Association of Australia. Review: Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 16-17
Briefly noted
W. Ph. Coolhaas, A Critical Survey of Studies on Dutch Colonial History, Revised Edition, KITLV Bibliographical Series no. 4, Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, 1980, 264 pp, index. Paper: n.p.g. Peggy and Dennis Warner, The Great Roads Japan's Highway to the Twentieth Century, Hutchinson of Australia, Melbourne, 1979, viii, 148 pp., introd. illus. Cloth: n.p.g. W.E. Wilmott, ed., Scholarship and Society in Southeast Asia, Christchurch, New Zealand Asi…
The Politics of Ekonomi Pancasila
Soeharto's Indonesia
S TRONG POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS have not been a hallmark of Third World governments. With few exceptions, colonialism in Asia and Africa left a legacy of only rudimentary governmental institutions and even less-formed political party and interest group organizations. In these structureless environments, personal rule has been the almost inevitable alternative. Strong individuals, typically supported by armies, installed themselves in presidential …
Ann Laura Stoler, "Capitalism and Confrontation in Sumatra's Plantation Belt, 1870-1979"
Suharto and His Generals. Indonesian Military Politics, 1975-1983
Indonesia in 1986
Research Article| February 01 1987 Indonesia in 1986: Contending with Scarcity R. William Liddle R. William Liddle Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Far Eastern Survey (1958) 27 (2): 206–218. https://doi.org/10.2307/2644615 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Sit…
The Politics of Shared Growth
Politicians and analysts who favor more egalitarian development policies in the Third World are at an impasse. Most of the current literature on the politics of what we might call shared growth, defined as economic development with widely dispersed opportunities to produce and consume, is trapped in one of two culs de sac. Mainstream or liberal scholars are committed to the idea of direct participation by the poor, organized in peasant and labor …
Indonesia in 1987
Research Article| February 01 1988 Indonesia in 1987: The New Order at the Height of Its Power R. William Liddle R. William Liddle Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Far Eastern Survey (1959) 28 (2): 180–191. https://doi.org/10.2307/2644819 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon…
An alternative format for Indonesian studies
The Relative Autonomy of the Third World Politician
Journal Article The Relative Autonomy of the Third World Politician: Soeharto and Indonesian Economic Development in Comparative Perspective Get access R. William Liddle R. William Liddle The Ohio State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Quarterly, Volume 35, Issue 4, December 1991, Pages 403–427, https://doi.org/10.2307/2600948 Published: 01 December 1991
The politics of development policy
Indonesia's Threefold Crisis
Indonesia's Threefold Crisis R. William Liddle (bio) On 8 June 1992, President Suharto celebrated his seventy-first birthday. He has been president of the Republic of Indonesia since March 1967, and is only the second person to hold that office. Indonesia's highest constitutional body, the People's Consultative Assembly, has given him its mandate on six occasions: in March 1967, when he was chosen acting president; in March 1968, when he became f…
Indonesia's Democratic Past and Future
Very briefly, from 1950 until about 1957 Indonesia was a representative democracy. The country had no democratic experience prior to its 1945 declaration of independence from Dutch and Japanese colonial rule. Since the late 1950s, it experienced two types of authoritarianism, the personal rule of President Sukarno's Guided Democracy until 1965 and the army-backed New Order of President Soeharto from 1966 to the present. At the turn of the 1990s, …
The Oil Boom and After
Human Rights and East Timor
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