Richard Robison
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3777667 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Richard Robison |
| NOMBRES | Richard |
| APELLIDO | Robison |
| FIRMA | ROBISON R |
| AFILIACIONES | Murdoch University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 52 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 250 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 49 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1978 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Oligarchy and the End of Reformasi in Indonesia
Pathways to Dictatorship and Democracy
As I began writing about the rise of Soeharto’s New Order regime in Indonesia in the early 1970s, my discovery of Barrington Moore’s seminal work, The Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy, opened a door into a world beyond the modernisation theory associated with the Cold War. As a result, my analysis was increasingly framed within the general proposition that the path to the modern world was forged in conflicts over power and wealth amon…
Australia and Southeast Asia
Australia's recently announced Defence Strategic Review promises more of the same in the nation's defence
Cleavages and Electoral Support to Islamist Party in Javan Urban Areas
Several studies have noted that electoral support for one of the Islamist parties in Indonesia, the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS), is mostly concentrated in urban areas. While I agree with this observation, I found that these studies did not pay adequate attention to the diversity of socio-political conditions in urban areas that contributed to the varying electoral support for PKS. One of these socio-political conditions is what Lipset and Rokk…
Strangers Next Door
Strangers Next Door? Indonesia and Australia in the Asian Century." Journal of Contemporary Asia, 49(5), pp. 862–863
Indonesia
Few countries have been burdened with such great expectations as Indonesia and have failed to meet them in the ways expected. Economists have persistently predicted that Indonesia could be an economic giant in the region, challenging the state-led economies of Northeast Asia on the basis of free market policies. After the fall of Soeharto in 1998, pluralist political scientists saw Indonesia as a shining light for democratic transition. More rece…
Competing populisms in post-authoritarian Indonesia
Populist politics have become more prominent in Indonesia. On the one hand, this is indicated by the presidential elections of 2014, when two rival candidates brandished somewhat different nationalist populist ideas. On the other hand, historically rooted secular nationalist and Islamic-oriented forms of populism have become entangled within elite conflicts. The context is discontent about perceived systemic injustices unaddressed in nearly two d…
Southeast Asia (Routledge Revivals)
The Political Economy of Oligarchy and the Reorganization of Power in Indonesia
Page range: 35-58
The Political Economy of Oligarchy and the Reorganization of Power in Indonesia
Routledge Handbook of Southeast Asian Politics
Introduction Richard Robison 1. Interpreting the Politics of Southeast Asia: Debates in Parallel Universes Richard Robison Part 1: The Changing Landscape of Power 2. Southeast Asia: The Left and the Rise of Bourgeois Opposition Kevin Hewison and Garry Rodan 3. Labour Politics in Southeast Asia: The Philippines Jane Hutchison 4. Oligarchs and Oligarchy in Southeast Asia Jeffrey A. Winters Part 2: States and Regimes 5. Democracy and Money Politics:…
Political Economy and Islamic Politics
It is argued in this study that the trajectory of Islamic politics in Indonesia has been shaped within larger processes of state formation and socio-economic and political changes associated with the advance of the market economy and the pressures of globalisation. It incorporates the Indonesian case into a vast and well-developed debate that has hitherto focused on North Africa and the Middle East. As such it offers a distinct interpretation tha…
Fighting on all fronts
Most academics are pleased if they are able to exercise some influence in one particular field of intellectual debate over the course of their career. Chalmers Johnson, in contrast, played a key role in at least four of the critical debates in international and comparative politics since the 1970s. He was the author of invariably controversial propositions that were variously to question the underpinnings of orthodoxy and more radical opinion. Mu…
Transplanting the neoliberal state in Southeast Asia
Discussion of Erik Martinez Kuhonta, Dan Slater, and Tuong Vu's Southeast Asia in Political Science
Comparative politics has witnessed periodic debates between proponents of contextually sensitive area studies research and others who view such work as unscientific, noncumulative, or of limited relevance for advancing broader social science knowledge. In Southeast Asia in Political Science: Theory, Region, and Qualitative Analysis , edited by Erik Martinez Kuhonta, Dan Slater, and Tuong Vu, a group of bright, young Southeast Asianists argue that…
The Neo-Liberal Revolution
East Asia and the Trials of Neo-Liberalism
1. East Asia and the Trials of Neo-Liberalism 2. Neo-Liberal Reforms and Illiberal Consolidations: The Indonesian Paradox 3. A Legitimate Paradox: Neo-Liberal Reform and the Return of the State in South Korea 4. Neo-Liberalism and Domestic Capital: The Political Outcomes of the Economic Crisis in Thailand 5. Malaysia: New reforms, Old Continuities, Tense Ambiguities 6. China's Engagement with Neo-Liberalism: Path Dependency, Party Self-Reinventio…
The Neoliberal Revolution
The book examines the rise of the amalgam of economic and political ideas we know as neo-liberalism and how these became the defining orthodoxy of our times. It investigates the inexorable global spre
How to build market societies
Since free-market ideologies reclaimed the ascendancy within the policy-making communities of Western governments and more broadly within the political life of Western industrial economies in the 1
Reorganising Power in Indonesia
Ross McLeod's review of our book Reorganising Power in Indonesia: The Politics of Oligarchy in an Age of Markets appeared in the April 2005 edition of this journal. Overall we think that the review
Reorganising power in Indonesia
Ross McLeod's review of our book Reorganising Power in Indonesia: The Politics of Oligarchy in an Age of Markets appeared in the April 2005 edition of this journal. Overall we think that the review
Neo-liberal Reforms and Illiberal Consolidations
10.1080/0022038042000309223
Neo-liberalism and the Market State
What sort of market state do neo-liberals want? Lenin once remarked that democracy was the ideal shell for capitalism (see Jessop 1983). But he was referring to the sort of propertied democracy emerging in the nineteenth century and to the task of dismantling various forms of absolutist mercantilism that confronted the rising bourgeoisies of Europe. However, the situation has been different for neo-liberals struggling to assert their ascendancy o…
Liem Sioe Liong’s Salim Group
Economic Crises and the Breakdown of Authoritarian Regimes
Reorganising Power in Indonesia
Ross McLeod's review of our book Reorganising Power in Indonesia: The Politics of Oligarchy in an Age of Markets appeared in the April 2005 edition of this journal. Overall we think that the review
Competing populisms in post-authoritarian Indonesia
Populist politics have become more prominent in Indonesia. On the one hand, this is indicated by the presidential elections of 2014, when two rival candidates brandished somewhat different nationalist populist ideas. On the other hand, historically rooted secular nationalist and Islamic-oriented forms of populism have become entangled within elite conflicts. The context is discontent about perceived systemic injustices unaddressed in nearly two d…
Authoritarian States, Capital-Owning Classes, and the Politics of Newly Industrializing Countries
In the past three decades, the Suharto regime has presided over the rapid industrialization of Indonesia and the development of its capital-owning classes. A complex relationship between state and capital has emerged, based upon structural factors (the need to maintain investment, economic growth, and a revenue base) as well as instrumental factors (the involvement of officials in business as state managers of capital and private investors). Rece…
The politics of ‘Asian values’
It is argued in this article that a range of conservative and authoritarian political ideologies have been presented by their Asian proponents as culturally embodied in Asian society. By doing this they seek to insulate their position from both domestic and international critics. However, the organic‐statist values implicit in ‘Asian values’ come under pressure as industrial capitalism transforms Asian society and the region's economics become in…
Contesting reform
Toward a Class Analysis of the Indonesian Military Bureaucratic State
Contrary to the expectations of modernization and developmentalist theorists, the historical experiences of Europe and North America have not been reproduced in the postcolonial societies of the Third World., The spread of capitalism has not been accompanied by the emergence of liberal democratic bourgeois states. Instead, the development of capitalism has resulted in the growth of military bureaucratic states
Indonesia
Few countries have been burdened with such great expectations as Indonesia and have failed to meet them in the ways expected. Economists have persistently predicted that Indonesia could be an economic giant in the region, challenging the state-led economies of Northeast Asia on the basis of free market policies. After the fall of Soeharto in 1998, pluralist political scientists saw Indonesia as a shining light for democratic transition. More rece…
Culture, Politics, and Economy in the Political History of the New Order
Page range: 1-29
The Political Economy of Oligarchy and the Reorganization of Power in Indonesia
Growth and Democracy in Southeast Asia
Political Economy and Islamic Politics
It is argued in this study that the trajectory of Islamic politics in Indonesia has been shaped within larger processes of state formation and socio-economic and political changes associated with the advance of the market economy and the pressures of globalisation. It incorporates the Indonesian case into a vast and well-developed debate that has hitherto focused on North Africa and the Middle East. As such it offers a distinct interpretation tha…
Structures of power and the industrialisation process in Southeast Asia
Indonesia
(1992). Indonesia: An autonomous domain of social power? The Pacific Review: Vol. 5, New Rich in Asia, pp. 338-349
The transformation of the state in Indonesia
The recent revival of interest in the state in post-colonial societies is, in large part, a consequence of the decline of dependency theory as a general tool for the analysis of society and economy in the “third world” and a move towards an approach based upon the concepts of mode of production and social formation. The focus of analysis has consequently moved from global structures of capital circulation to class struggle within specific periphe…
Privatization or the Reorganization of Dirigism? Indonesian Economic Policy in the 1990s
There are increasing social pressures for changes in the Indonesian economic policy and for greater integration into the world economy. These have arisen from the need to become export competitive in non-oil products and to attract foreign direct investment. Deregulation is underway to meet these needs, but the precise outcomes are not clear because of the complex struggle of interests and ideas involved in the process. The major actors in the st…
Economic restructuring and the reform of the higher education system
The main argument advanced in favour of the Hawke government's reform of higher education, as contained in the recent White Paper, relates to the imperatives of economic restructuring. A more ‘relevant’ and ‘responsive’ higher education system is, according to the government, the necessary basis of a more advanced and internationally competitive economy. We argue below, however, that the reforms are premised on a false assumption: that the privat…
Fighting on all fronts
Most academics are pleased if they are able to exercise some influence in one particular field of intellectual debate over the course of their career. Chalmers Johnson, in contrast, played a key role in at least four of the critical debates in international and comparative politics since the 1970s. He was the author of invariably controversial propositions that were variously to question the underpinnings of orthodoxy and more radical opinion. Mu…
How to build market societies
Since free-market ideologies reclaimed the ascendancy within the policy-making communities of Western governments and more broadly within the political life of Western industrial economies in the 1
Reorganising power in Indonesia
Ross McLeod's review of our book Reorganising Power in Indonesia: The Politics of Oligarchy in an Age of Markets appeared in the April 2005 edition of this journal. Overall we think that the review
Toward a Class Analysis of the Indonesian Military Bureaucratic State
Contrary to the expectations of modernization and developmentalist theorists, the historical experiences of Europe and North America have not been reproduced in the postcolonial societies of the Third World., The spread of capitalism has not been accompanied by the emergence of liberal democratic bourgeois states. Instead, the development of capitalism has resulted in the growth of military bureaucratic states
Culture, Politics, and Economy in the Political History of the New Order
Page range: 1-29
The transformation of the state in Indonesia
The recent revival of interest in the state in post-colonial societies is, in large part, a consequence of the decline of dependency theory as a general tool for the analysis of society and economy in the “third world” and a move towards an approach based upon the concepts of mode of production and social formation. The focus of analysis has consequently moved from global structures of capital circulation to class struggle within specific periphe…
Orientalism & contemporary writing on Southeast Asian politics
Indonesia
Authoritarian States, Capital-Owning Classes, and the Politics of Newly Industrializing Countries
In the past three decades, the Suharto regime has presided over the rapid industrialization of Indonesia and the development of its capital-owning classes. A complex relationship between state and capital has emerged, based upon structural factors (the need to maintain investment, economic growth, and a revenue base) as well as instrumental factors (the involvement of officials in business as state managers of capital and private investors). Rece…
Indonesia
Southeast Asia in the 1980s
Structures of power and the industrialisation process in Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia in the 1980s
Power and economy in Suharto's Indonesia
Studying Asia in Australia
Economic restructuring and the reform of the higher education system
The main argument advanced in favour of the Hawke government's reform of higher education, as contained in the recent White Paper, relates to the imperatives of economic restructuring. A more ‘relevant’ and ‘responsive’ higher education system is, according to the government, the necessary basis of a more advanced and internationally competitive economy. We argue below, however, that the reforms are premised on a false assumption: that the privat…
Indonesia
(1992). Indonesia: An autonomous domain of social power? The Pacific Review: Vol. 5, New Rich in Asia, pp. 338-349
Southeast Asia in the 1990s
AcknowledgmentsContributors1 Introduction: Changing forms of state power in Southeast Asia2 Political power in industrialising capitalist societies: Theoretical approaches3 Indonesia: Tensions in state and regime4 Preserving the one-party state in contemporary Singapore5 Rentier capitalism in Negara Brunei Darussalam6 Malaysia: Neither authoritarian nor democratic7 Of regimes, state and pluralities: Thai politics enters the 1990s8 Class and state…
Privatization or the Reorganization of Dirigism? Indonesian Economic Policy in the 1990s
There are increasing social pressures for changes in the Indonesian economic policy and for greater integration into the world economy. These have arisen from the need to become export competitive in non-oil products and to attract foreign direct investment. Deregulation is underway to meet these needs, but the precise outcomes are not clear because of the complex struggle of interests and ideas involved in the process. The major actors in the st…
Managing Indonesia
The New Rich in Asia
This is the first volume in the The New Rich in Asia series which examines the economic, social and political construction of the 'new rich' in the countries and territories of East and South East Asia, as well as their impact internationally. From a western perspective the rise of the emergent business and professional class may seem very familiar. However, it is far from clear that those newly enriched by the processes of modernization in East …
The politics of ‘Asian values’
It is argued in this article that a range of conservative and authoritarian political ideologies have been presented by their Asian proponents as culturally embodied in Asian society. By doing this they seek to insulate their position from both domestic and international critics. However, the organic‐statist values implicit in ‘Asian values’ come under pressure as industrial capitalism transforms Asian society and the region's economics become in…
Contesting reform
Growth and Democracy in Southeast Asia
Pathways to Asia
ContributorsTables and figuresIntroductionPart IThe politics of engagement1 Looking north: myths and strategiesRichard Robison2 A 'clash of cultures' or the convergence of political ideology?Garry Rodan and Kevin Hewison3 Recalcitrant or Realpolitik? The politics of culture in Australia's relations with MalaysiaPeter SearlePart II'Asian' models of political and social organisations4 Culturalisation of economy and politics in SingaporeChua Beng Hu…
The Political Economy of South-East Asia
Politics and Markets in the Wake of the Asian Crisis
Looking Back on the Asian Crisis
The persistence of non-liberal regimes in Asia, even after the financial and economic crisis, raises questions about how social and economic regimes change and the sort of legal and political frameworks required by modern market capitalism. This paper looks at the issue of convergence and critically assesses claims that the apparent failure of market transformation results from poor policies, weak institutions, captured states and weak social cap…
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