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Record Nr.

UNINA9910315230003321

Autore

McCoy Mary E. <1968->

Titolo

Scandal and Democracy : Media Politics in Indonesia / / Mary E. McCoy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca : , : Southeast Asia Program Publications, an imprint of Cornell University Press, , 2019

©2019

ISBN

9781501731068

1501731068

9781501731051

150173105X

9781501731044

1501731041

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (286 pages)

Disciplina

302.2309598

Soggetti

Political corruption - Indonesia

Democratization - Indonesia

Press - Indonesia - Influence

Press and politics - Indonesia

Mass media - Political aspects - Indonesia

Electronic books.

Indonesia Politics and government 1998-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

"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"--