Scandal and Democracy Media Politics in Indonesia

"Focuses on the under-theorized role of the media to explain why some democratic transitions succeed and others founder and why some lead to consolidation while others either fail outright or settle into a state of pseudo-democracy that often masks an atavistic authoritarianism"--

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: McCoy, Mary E., 1968- author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Southeast Asia Program Publications, an imprint of Cornell University Press 2019.
Edition:1st ed
Subjects:
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009428256306719
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : understanding democratic consolidation
  • The origins and evolution of media controls
  • Delegitimating authoritarianism
  • Suharto's fall
  • Reformasi and legal reform
  • Media retreat in the 1999 parliamentary elections
  • Baligate and the politics of scandal
  • Scandal and democratic consolidation
  • Media and civil society.