Andreas Ufen
Biographic Data
| ID | 746737 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andreas Ufen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andreas |
| FAMILY NAME | Ufen |
| SIGNATURE | UFEN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | German Institute for Global and Area Studies |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3385-0645 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 172 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Failed Autocratization: Malaysia under Najib Razak (2009-2018)
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak's systematic strategy of autocratization backfired. This paper is based on a model of three pillars of authoritarian regimes. It traces the di erent strategies and measures employed to weaken the opposition and shows that major survival strategies were prone to frequent shifts. At the beginning of his tenure, Najib depicted himself as a reformer, and refined some forms of repression. The regime scrapped centra…
Cleavages and Electoral Support to Islamist Party in Javan Urban Areas: The Case of Prosperous Justice Party
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…
The Downfall of Pakatan Harapan in Malaysia
In May 2018 the Malaysian governing coalition Pakatan Harapan (PH) lost in national elections for the first time since independence. But the subsequent reform process came to a sudden halt in February 2020. During transitions, unpredictability and risks for political actors are higher, and political conditions are extremely volatile. Multiparty coalitions such as PH have trouble sustaining the cohesion that was instrumental in their electoral vic…
Gero Erdmann-Preis für vergleichende Area-Forschung 2020
Causes, Effects, and Forms of Factionalism in Southeast Asia
This paper is the introduction for a special issue which examines intra-party factions and factionalism in competitive party systems of Southeast Asia, looking at the cases of Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Timor-Leste, in that order and rounding up with a comparative conclusion. The study centres primarily upon one query: in competitive party systems of Southeast Asia, what accounts for the rise …
Clientelist and Programmatic Factionalism Within Malaysian Political Parties
This article analyses factionalism within ruling and opposition parties in Malaysia, with a focus on party splits and/or the toppling or near-toppling of dominant factions at the national level. Political parties are either composed of clientelist or programmatic factions or represent hybrids that combine clientelist and programmatic factionalism. The strength and the type of factionalism depend upon policy space and the intensity of control over…
Opposition in transition: Pre-electoral coalitions and the 2018 electoral breakthrough in Malaysia
In May 2018, the Malaysian opposition coalition Pakatan Harapan or Hope Alliance won the federal elections for the first time in the history of the country. The electoral authoritarian system is now in a state of transition. The electoral breakthrough was the result of longer-term socio-economic transformations, but the formation of a strong pre-electoral coalition was ultimately decisive for the victory. The article compares various coalitions a…
Party presidentialization in post-Suharto Indonesia
Indonesia presents an extremely rare quasi-experimental research case: the constitutional reforms and the transition to full presidentialism have effected a presidentialization of political parties that is largely in line with the changes predicted by the model of Samuels and Shugart [2010. Presidents, parties and prime ministers: How separation of powers affects party organization and behaviour. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press]. Especially…
The 2013 Malaysian Elections: Business as Usual or Part of a Protracted Transition
Ethnizität, Islam, Reformasi: Die Evolution der Konfliktlinien Im Parteiensystem Malaysias
Das malaysische Parteiensystem wurde im Laufe der letzten Jahrzehnte von mehreren Konfliktlinien geprägt. Andreas Ufen zeigt, dass zunächst ein ethnischer Gegensatz vorherrschend war, der sich im Zusammenhang mit dem elektoralen Autoritarismus, also aufgrund der strikten Kontrolle der Arbeiterbewegung und prodemokratischer Kräfte, und aufbauend auf einer frühzeitig ins Leben gerufenen interethnischen Elitenkoalition entfalten und stabilisieren ko…
Party Politics in Southeast Asia: Clientelism and electoral competition in Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines
1. Introduction: Party Politics and Clientelism in Southeast Asia Dirk Tomsa and Andreas Ufen 2. What Type of Party? Southeast Asian Parties between Clientelism and Electoralism Dirk Tomsa 3. Lipset and Rokkan in Southeast Asia: Indonesia in Comparative Perspective Andreas Ufen 4. Class, Charisma, and Clientelism in Thai and Philippine Populist Parties Mark R. Thompson 5. Anti-Party Attitudes in Southeast Asia Paige Johnson Tan 6. Electoral Syste…
Party Systems, Critical Junctures, and Cleavages in Southeast Asia
This article differentiates between clientelist (Thailand and the Philippines) and cleavage-based parties and party systems (Malaysia and Indonesia) with reference to insights of historical institutionalism. Clientelist parties, in contrast to cleavage-based ones, often undermine democratization because, on average, representativeness is weak, bureaucracy is more politicized, and rent-seeking behavior is widespread
Electoral Campaigning in Indonesia: The Professionalization and Commercialization after 1998
According to “Western” models, there are three different stages of electioneering. In Indonesia, elements of these different stages are now combined. The result is not a comprehensive “Americanization”, but a professionalization, along with a hybridization of indigenous and foreign methods. At the beginning, the elections of 1955 were marked by a localized campaign and the absence of TV, pollsters and consultants. The long suppression of electora…
Introduction: New Forms of Voter Mobilization in Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia in the twenty-first century is no longer what it used to be, at least not at its ASEAN core. By the 1990s, competitive elections had (re)emerged as the primary mechanism for the assumption of state office in the Philippines and Thailand. By the turn of the century, Indonesia had experienced two orderly transfers of presidential power, as well as the country’s freest and fairest elections since 1955. Meanwhile, opposition parties ma…
The legislative and presidential elections in Indonesia in 2009
Parliamentary Elections in Indonesia: President Susilo on the Rise
The Indonesian parliamentary elections in April 2009 have been characterized as peaceful, free, and fair. All in all, the young democracy has been stabilized. The PD (Partai Demokrat, Democratic Party), the electoral vehicle of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, won with 20.8%. It is mostly secular parties, that is the PD, Golkar (Partai Golongan Karya, Party of Functional Groups) and the PDI-P (Partai Demokrasi Indonesia – Perjuangan, Indonesia…
Mobilising Political Islam: Indonesia and Malaysia Compared
This paper analyses forms of religious mobilisation and the resultant Islamisation in Indonesia and Malaysia after independence against the backdrop of interactions in and among three different spheres: the state, political society, and civil society. Islamisation in Indonesia has been propelled by different actors, and only from the mid-1980s until the fall of Suharto did the state apparatus control and direct its dynamics with growing intensity…
The transformation of political party opposition in Malaysia and its implications for the electoral authoritarian regime
Malaysia's electoral authoritarian system is increasingly coming under pressure. Indicators of this are the metamorphosis of opposition forces since 1998 and, in particular, the results of the 2008 parliamentary elections. From 1957 until 1998 political party opposition was fragmented. An initial transformation of political party opposition began at the height of the Asian financial crisis, after a major conflict within the ruling United Malays N…
Democratization in Post-Suharto Indonesia
1. The New Order and its Legacy: Reflections on Democratization in Indonesia Marco Bunte and Andreas Ufen PART I: The Restructuring of Core State Institutions 2. The Indonesian Legislature and its Impact on Democratic Consolidation Patrick Ziegenhain 3. Indonesia's Struggle for Rule of Law Petra Stockmann 4. Government Policies and Civil Society Initiatives against Corruption Sofie Arjon Schutte 5. Indonesia's Protracted Decentralization: Contest…
From Aliran to Dealignment: Political Parties in Post-Suharto Indonesia
Surprisingly, the outcome of the 1999 and 2004 elections in Indonesia and the resultant constellation of political parties are reminiscent of the first Indonesian parliamentary democracy of the 1950s. The dynamics of party politics is still marked by aliran (‘streams’): that is, some of the biggest political parties are still identified with specific milieux. But politik aliran lost a lot of its significance and re-emerged in a quite different fo…
Political party and party system institutionalization in Southeast Asia: Lessons for democratic consolidation in Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand
Is a higher degree of party and party system institutionalization positively correlated with the consolidation of democracy, defined here as the prevention of democratic breakdown? In order to answer this question, it is useful to compare different levels and types of institutionalization in three Southeast Asian electoral democracies. Institutionalized party systems are characterized, according to Mainwaring and Torcal, by ‘stability of interpar…
Islamisierungsmuster in Südostasien. Die vielgestaltige Mobilisierung des politischen Islams in Indonesien und Malaysia
ZPol Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft , Seite 51 - 78
Die Verfassungsreformen in Indonesien
VRÜ Verfassung und Recht in Übersee , Seite 206 - 227
Party Politics in Southeast Asia: Clientelism and electoral competition in Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines
1. Introduction: Party Politics and Clientelism in Southeast Asia Dirk Tomsa and Andreas Ufen 2. What Type of Party? Southeast Asian Parties between Clientelism and Electoralism Dirk Tomsa 3. Lipset and Rokkan in Southeast Asia: Indonesia in Comparative Perspective Andreas Ufen 4. Class, Charisma, and Clientelism in Thai and Philippine Populist Parties Mark R. Thompson 5. Anti-Party Attitudes in Southeast Asia Paige Johnson Tan 6. Electoral Syste…
From Aliran to Dealignment: Political Parties in Post-Suharto Indonesia
Surprisingly, the outcome of the 1999 and 2004 elections in Indonesia and the resultant constellation of political parties are reminiscent of the first Indonesian parliamentary democracy of the 1950s. The dynamics of party politics is still marked by aliran (‘streams’): that is, some of the biggest political parties are still identified with specific milieux. But politik aliran lost a lot of its significance and re-emerged in a quite different fo…
Political party and party system institutionalization in Southeast Asia: Lessons for democratic consolidation in Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand
Is a higher degree of party and party system institutionalization positively correlated with the consolidation of democracy, defined here as the prevention of democratic breakdown? In order to answer this question, it is useful to compare different levels and types of institutionalization in three Southeast Asian electoral democracies. Institutionalized party systems are characterized, according to Mainwaring and Torcal, by ‘stability of interpar…
Opposition in transition: Pre-electoral coalitions and the 2018 electoral breakthrough in Malaysia
In May 2018, the Malaysian opposition coalition Pakatan Harapan or Hope Alliance won the federal elections for the first time in the history of the country. The electoral authoritarian system is now in a state of transition. The electoral breakthrough was the result of longer-term socio-economic transformations, but the formation of a strong pre-electoral coalition was ultimately decisive for the victory. The article compares various coalitions a…
The transformation of political party opposition in Malaysia and its implications for the electoral authoritarian regime
Malaysia's electoral authoritarian system is increasingly coming under pressure. Indicators of this are the metamorphosis of opposition forces since 1998 and, in particular, the results of the 2008 parliamentary elections. From 1957 until 1998 political party opposition was fragmented. An initial transformation of political party opposition began at the height of the Asian financial crisis, after a major conflict within the ruling United Malays N…
Party Systems, Critical Junctures, and Cleavages in Southeast Asia
This article differentiates between clientelist (Thailand and the Philippines) and cleavage-based parties and party systems (Malaysia and Indonesia) with reference to insights of historical institutionalism. Clientelist parties, in contrast to cleavage-based ones, often undermine democratization because, on average, representativeness is weak, bureaucracy is more politicized, and rent-seeking behavior is widespread
Electoral Campaigning in Indonesia: The Professionalization and Commercialization after 1998
According to “Western” models, there are three different stages of electioneering. In Indonesia, elements of these different stages are now combined. The result is not a comprehensive “Americanization”, but a professionalization, along with a hybridization of indigenous and foreign methods. At the beginning, the elections of 1955 were marked by a localized campaign and the absence of TV, pollsters and consultants. The long suppression of electora…
Mobilising Political Islam: Indonesia and Malaysia Compared
This paper analyses forms of religious mobilisation and the resultant Islamisation in Indonesia and Malaysia after independence against the backdrop of interactions in and among three different spheres: the state, political society, and civil society. Islamisation in Indonesia has been propelled by different actors, and only from the mid-1980s until the fall of Suharto did the state apparatus control and direct its dynamics with growing intensity…
Clientelist and Programmatic Factionalism Within Malaysian Political Parties
This article analyses factionalism within ruling and opposition parties in Malaysia, with a focus on party splits and/or the toppling or near-toppling of dominant factions at the national level. Political parties are either composed of clientelist or programmatic factions or represent hybrids that combine clientelist and programmatic factionalism. The strength and the type of factionalism depend upon policy space and the intensity of control over…
Party presidentialization in post-Suharto Indonesia
Indonesia presents an extremely rare quasi-experimental research case: the constitutional reforms and the transition to full presidentialism have effected a presidentialization of political parties that is largely in line with the changes predicted by the model of Samuels and Shugart [2010. Presidents, parties and prime ministers: How separation of powers affects party organization and behaviour. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press]. Especially…
Introduction: New Forms of Voter Mobilization in Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia in the twenty-first century is no longer what it used to be, at least not at its ASEAN core. By the 1990s, competitive elections had (re)emerged as the primary mechanism for the assumption of state office in the Philippines and Thailand. By the turn of the century, Indonesia had experienced two orderly transfers of presidential power, as well as the country’s freest and fairest elections since 1955. Meanwhile, opposition parties ma…
The legislative and presidential elections in Indonesia in 2009
Failed Autocratization: Malaysia under Najib Razak (2009-2018)
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak's systematic strategy of autocratization backfired. This paper is based on a model of three pillars of authoritarian regimes. It traces the di erent strategies and measures employed to weaken the opposition and shows that major survival strategies were prone to frequent shifts. At the beginning of his tenure, Najib depicted himself as a reformer, and refined some forms of repression. The regime scrapped centra…
The Downfall of Pakatan Harapan in Malaysia
In May 2018 the Malaysian governing coalition Pakatan Harapan (PH) lost in national elections for the first time since independence. But the subsequent reform process came to a sudden halt in February 2020. During transitions, unpredictability and risks for political actors are higher, and political conditions are extremely volatile. Multiparty coalitions such as PH have trouble sustaining the cohesion that was instrumental in their electoral vic…
Causes, Effects, and Forms of Factionalism in Southeast Asia
This paper is the introduction for a special issue which examines intra-party factions and factionalism in competitive party systems of Southeast Asia, looking at the cases of Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Timor-Leste, in that order and rounding up with a comparative conclusion. The study centres primarily upon one query: in competitive party systems of Southeast Asia, what accounts for the rise …
The 2013 Malaysian Elections: Business as Usual or Part of a Protracted Transition
Islamisierungsmuster in Südostasien. Die vielgestaltige Mobilisierung des politischen Islams in Indonesien und Malaysia
ZPol Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft , Seite 51 - 78
Die Verfassungsreformen in Indonesien
VRÜ Verfassung und Recht in Übersee , Seite 206 - 227
Die Verfassungsreformen in Indonesien
VRÜ Verfassung und Recht in Übersee , Seite 206 - 227
Democratization in Post-Suharto Indonesia
1. The New Order and its Legacy: Reflections on Democratization in Indonesia Marco Bunte and Andreas Ufen PART I: The Restructuring of Core State Institutions 2. The Indonesian Legislature and its Impact on Democratic Consolidation Patrick Ziegenhain 3. Indonesia's Struggle for Rule of Law Petra Stockmann 4. Government Policies and Civil Society Initiatives against Corruption Sofie Arjon Schutte 5. Indonesia's Protracted Decentralization: Contest…
From Aliran to Dealignment: Political Parties in Post-Suharto Indonesia
Surprisingly, the outcome of the 1999 and 2004 elections in Indonesia and the resultant constellation of political parties are reminiscent of the first Indonesian parliamentary democracy of the 1950s. The dynamics of party politics is still marked by aliran (‘streams’): that is, some of the biggest political parties are still identified with specific milieux. But politik aliran lost a lot of its significance and re-emerged in a quite different fo…
Political party and party system institutionalization in Southeast Asia: Lessons for democratic consolidation in Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand
Is a higher degree of party and party system institutionalization positively correlated with the consolidation of democracy, defined here as the prevention of democratic breakdown? In order to answer this question, it is useful to compare different levels and types of institutionalization in three Southeast Asian electoral democracies. Institutionalized party systems are characterized, according to Mainwaring and Torcal, by ‘stability of interpar…
Islamisierungsmuster in Südostasien. Die vielgestaltige Mobilisierung des politischen Islams in Indonesien und Malaysia
ZPol Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft , Seite 51 - 78
Parliamentary Elections in Indonesia: President Susilo on the Rise
The Indonesian parliamentary elections in April 2009 have been characterized as peaceful, free, and fair. All in all, the young democracy has been stabilized. The PD (Partai Demokrat, Democratic Party), the electoral vehicle of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, won with 20.8%. It is mostly secular parties, that is the PD, Golkar (Partai Golongan Karya, Party of Functional Groups) and the PDI-P (Partai Demokrasi Indonesia – Perjuangan, Indonesia…
Mobilising Political Islam: Indonesia and Malaysia Compared
This paper analyses forms of religious mobilisation and the resultant Islamisation in Indonesia and Malaysia after independence against the backdrop of interactions in and among three different spheres: the state, political society, and civil society. Islamisation in Indonesia has been propelled by different actors, and only from the mid-1980s until the fall of Suharto did the state apparatus control and direct its dynamics with growing intensity…
The transformation of political party opposition in Malaysia and its implications for the electoral authoritarian regime
Malaysia's electoral authoritarian system is increasingly coming under pressure. Indicators of this are the metamorphosis of opposition forces since 1998 and, in particular, the results of the 2008 parliamentary elections. From 1957 until 1998 political party opposition was fragmented. An initial transformation of political party opposition began at the height of the Asian financial crisis, after a major conflict within the ruling United Malays N…
Electoral Campaigning in Indonesia: The Professionalization and Commercialization after 1998
According to “Western” models, there are three different stages of electioneering. In Indonesia, elements of these different stages are now combined. The result is not a comprehensive “Americanization”, but a professionalization, along with a hybridization of indigenous and foreign methods. At the beginning, the elections of 1955 were marked by a localized campaign and the absence of TV, pollsters and consultants. The long suppression of electora…
Introduction: New Forms of Voter Mobilization in Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia in the twenty-first century is no longer what it used to be, at least not at its ASEAN core. By the 1990s, competitive elections had (re)emerged as the primary mechanism for the assumption of state office in the Philippines and Thailand. By the turn of the century, Indonesia had experienced two orderly transfers of presidential power, as well as the country’s freest and fairest elections since 1955. Meanwhile, opposition parties ma…
The legislative and presidential elections in Indonesia in 2009
Ethnizität, Islam, Reformasi: Die Evolution der Konfliktlinien Im Parteiensystem Malaysias
Das malaysische Parteiensystem wurde im Laufe der letzten Jahrzehnte von mehreren Konfliktlinien geprägt. Andreas Ufen zeigt, dass zunächst ein ethnischer Gegensatz vorherrschend war, der sich im Zusammenhang mit dem elektoralen Autoritarismus, also aufgrund der strikten Kontrolle der Arbeiterbewegung und prodemokratischer Kräfte, und aufbauend auf einer frühzeitig ins Leben gerufenen interethnischen Elitenkoalition entfalten und stabilisieren ko…
Party Politics in Southeast Asia: Clientelism and electoral competition in Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines
1. Introduction: Party Politics and Clientelism in Southeast Asia Dirk Tomsa and Andreas Ufen 2. What Type of Party? Southeast Asian Parties between Clientelism and Electoralism Dirk Tomsa 3. Lipset and Rokkan in Southeast Asia: Indonesia in Comparative Perspective Andreas Ufen 4. Class, Charisma, and Clientelism in Thai and Philippine Populist Parties Mark R. Thompson 5. Anti-Party Attitudes in Southeast Asia Paige Johnson Tan 6. Electoral Syste…
Party Systems, Critical Junctures, and Cleavages in Southeast Asia
This article differentiates between clientelist (Thailand and the Philippines) and cleavage-based parties and party systems (Malaysia and Indonesia) with reference to insights of historical institutionalism. Clientelist parties, in contrast to cleavage-based ones, often undermine democratization because, on average, representativeness is weak, bureaucracy is more politicized, and rent-seeking behavior is widespread
The 2013 Malaysian Elections: Business as Usual or Part of a Protracted Transition
Party presidentialization in post-Suharto Indonesia
Indonesia presents an extremely rare quasi-experimental research case: the constitutional reforms and the transition to full presidentialism have effected a presidentialization of political parties that is largely in line with the changes predicted by the model of Samuels and Shugart [2010. Presidents, parties and prime ministers: How separation of powers affects party organization and behaviour. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press]. Especially…
Gero Erdmann-Preis für vergleichende Area-Forschung 2020
Causes, Effects, and Forms of Factionalism in Southeast Asia
This paper is the introduction for a special issue which examines intra-party factions and factionalism in competitive party systems of Southeast Asia, looking at the cases of Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Timor-Leste, in that order and rounding up with a comparative conclusion. The study centres primarily upon one query: in competitive party systems of Southeast Asia, what accounts for the rise …
Clientelist and Programmatic Factionalism Within Malaysian Political Parties
This article analyses factionalism within ruling and opposition parties in Malaysia, with a focus on party splits and/or the toppling or near-toppling of dominant factions at the national level. Political parties are either composed of clientelist or programmatic factions or represent hybrids that combine clientelist and programmatic factionalism. The strength and the type of factionalism depend upon policy space and the intensity of control over…
Opposition in transition: Pre-electoral coalitions and the 2018 electoral breakthrough in Malaysia
In May 2018, the Malaysian opposition coalition Pakatan Harapan or Hope Alliance won the federal elections for the first time in the history of the country. The electoral authoritarian system is now in a state of transition. The electoral breakthrough was the result of longer-term socio-economic transformations, but the formation of a strong pre-electoral coalition was ultimately decisive for the victory. The article compares various coalitions a…
Cleavages and Electoral Support to Islamist Party in Javan Urban Areas: The Case of Prosperous Justice Party
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…
The Downfall of Pakatan Harapan in Malaysia
In May 2018 the Malaysian governing coalition Pakatan Harapan (PH) lost in national elections for the first time since independence. But the subsequent reform process came to a sudden halt in February 2020. During transitions, unpredictability and risks for political actors are higher, and political conditions are extremely volatile. Multiparty coalitions such as PH have trouble sustaining the cohesion that was instrumental in their electoral vic…
Failed Autocratization: Malaysia under Najib Razak (2009-2018)
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak's systematic strategy of autocratization backfired. This paper is based on a model of three pillars of authoritarian regimes. It traces the di erent strategies and measures employed to weaken the opposition and shows that major survival strategies were prone to frequent shifts. At the beginning of his tenure, Najib depicted himself as a reformer, and refined some forms of repression. The regime scrapped centra…
Asian Studies and History (21 works) · Political science (21 works) · Law (16 works) · Political economy (16 works) · Politics (16 works) · Law (12 works) · Indonesian Election Politics and Participation (11 works) · Economics (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (9 works)