For A/Prof Marcus Mietzner, writing a book about Indonesia’s long-time president was a career highlight, but also posed significant challenges.

Expert contributors survey major types of electoral systems found throughout the world, explain their powerful influence on both democratic quality and development outcomes, and explore the comparativ

How Indonesia has turned its volatile post-authoritarian presidential system into one of the world's most stable.

'Democracy for Sale' is an on-the-ground account of Indonesian democracy, analyzing its election campaigns and behind-the-scenes machinations.

Opposing Suharto presents an account of democratization in the world's fourth most populous country, Indonesia.

This study sheds light on the organisation of elections and electioneering across the Philippines.

Mobilizing for Elections presents a new framework for analyzing variation in patronage democracies, focusing on distinct forms of patronage and different networks through which it is distributed.

This book provides an unprecedented and fine-grained analysis of the inner working of Indonesian parties, and by comparing them to their equivalents in other new democracies around the world.

Coming at a critical time, and one of growing interest in this Southeast Asian country among researchers and policy-makers, this book addresses this complex question from various perspectives.

This book provides a comprehensive and penetrating analysis of the lead-up to, the outcome and the aftermath of Fiji’s historic 2006 election.

The Dynamics of Transitional Justice draws on the case of East Timor in order to reassess how transitional justice mechanisms actually play out at the local level.

This volume provides an analysis of Papua New Guinea’s general election in 2007, drawing on the work of a domestic monitoring team and addressing key issues.

Collectively, the chapters provide a set of critical reflections on recent political, economic and social developments in Timor-Leste.

This book aims to reflect on the experiential side of writing political lives in the Pacific region.

This book explores the factors behind – and the implications of – the 2006 coup.

Politics and State Building in Solomon Islands examines a crisis moment in recent Solomon Islands history.

his book takes stock of the mutations, continuities and fractures at the heart of Myanmar’s political and economic transformations.