| dc.contributor.author | Berenschot, Ward (36514190400); Capri, Wigke (57221835261); Dhian, Devy (57221833027) | |
| dc.contributor.editor | - | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-02-11T15:57:58Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-02-11T15:57:58Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2021 | |
| dc.identifier.isbn | - | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 14672715 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.1080/14672715.2021.1871852 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85100342873&doi=10.1080%2f14672715.2021.1871852&partnerID=40&md5=154ba99659916da16a7c6c40031a43c9 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://digilib.fisipol.ugm.ac.id/repo/handle/15717717/21575 | |
| dc.description.abstract | While democratization is regularly associated with elite renewal, established elites often succeed in maintaining their dominance after the fall of the authoritarian regime that fostered them. This constitutes a relatively understudied challenge facing democratization processes: when and how do democratic reforms succeed in fostering the emergence of new elites? This paper addresses this question through a study of village head elections in three rural districts around Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Comparing older studies of village head elections with ten in-depth studies of recent village head elections as well as assessments of the backgrounds of eighty village heads (kepala desa), this paper shows that a remarkable change has taken place. Whereas up to ten years ago many villages were still ruled by leaders from established families with a quasi-hereditary grip on power, in recent years such leaders are rapidly being replaced by village heads with more modest family backgrounds and a different style of leadership. This important change has resulted from a combination of democratic reforms, the diversification of rural economies, and the particularly competitive character of village head elections. Elite renewal is possible when open and information-dense elections coincide with a process of economic diversification undercutting the economic dominance of established elites. © 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. | |
| dc.language.iso | English | |
| dc.publisher | Critical Asian Studies | |
| dc.title | A quiet revolution? Village head elections and the democratization of rural Indonesia | |
| dc.type | Article | |
| dc.description.pages | 20.0 | |
| dc.description.doi | 10.1080/14672715.2021.1871852 | |
| dc.title.book | - | |
| dc.link.scopus | https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85100342873&doi=10.1080%2f14672715.2021.1871852&partnerID=40&md5=154ba99659916da16a7c6c40031a43c9 | |
