Ties and Tiers: Decentralisation and Ethno-Communal Mobilisation in Post-Suharto Indonesia
Journal: The Sydney eScholarship Repository (The University of Sydney)
Year: 2011

Decentralisation of governance responsibilities to sub-national authorities has been one of the most significant trends in state-reform since the 1980s. Debate continues, however, regarding the consequences of the expansion of local/district government for ethno-communal relations. This study develops a strategic-relational theory of decentralisation and ethno-communal voter mobilisation, testing it in relation to electoral processes in two ethno-religiously diverse districts in Indonesia. It fi