Election Campaigning in East and Southeast Asia

Election Campaigning in East and Southeast Asia
Author: Christian Schafferer
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 163
Release: 2017-05-15
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1351941232

At the end of the last century, political marketing appeared to have become a global phenomenon with an increasing number of electoral campaigns resembling those of the United States. Comparative research has shown the existence of a so-called 'Americanization' of election campaign practices. This book examines the nature of electoral campaigns in East and Southeast Asia. Based on the analyses of developments in Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, Malaysia, and the Philippines, it examines whether there is an 'Asian style' of election campaigning. Contributing to the fields of media studies and comparative politics, the book offers an insight into the various changes in election campaigning that occurred in the East and Southeast Asia during the process of democratization and modernization. It sheds new light on the causes and consequences of the worldwide proliferation of US election campaigning and provides the academic world with previously unpublished material on the electoral strategies of Asian political parties.

Election Campaigning in East and Southeast Asia

Election Campaigning in East and Southeast Asia
Author: Christian Schafferer
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2006
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780754643937

Comparative research has shown that an increasing number of electoral campaigns are resembling those of the United States. This book examines the nature of electoral campaigns in East and Southeast Asia and examines whether there is an 'Asian style' of election campaigning.

The Candidate's Dilemma

The Candidate's Dilemma
Author: Elisabeth Kramer
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 127
Release: 2022-06-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1501764039

In The Candidate's Dilemma, Elisabeth Kramer tells the story of how three political candidates in Indonesia made decisions to resist, engage in, or otherwise incorporate money politics into their electioneering strategies over the course of their campaigns. As they campaign, candidates encounter pressure from the institutional rules that guide elections, political parties, and voters, and must also negotiate complex social relationships to remain competitive. For anticorruption candidates, this context presents additional challenges for building and maintaining their identities. Some of these candidates establish their campaign parameters early and are able to stay their course. For others, the campaign trail results in an avalanche of compromises, each one eating away at their sense of what constitutes "moral" and "acceptable" behavior. The Candidate's Dilemma delves into the lived experiences of candidates to offer a nuanced study of how the political and personal intersect when it comes to money politics, anticorruptionism, and electoral campaigning in Indonesia.

Internet Election Campaigns in the United States, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan

Internet Election Campaigns in the United States, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan
Author: Shoko Kiyohara
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2017-10-17
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3319636820

This book investigates how institutional differences, such as the roles of political parties and the regulation of electoral systems, affect the development of Internet election campaigns in the U.S., Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. It examines whether or not the “Americanization of elections” is evident in East Asian democracies. While Japan is a parliamentary system, the U.S. and Korea are presidential systems and Taiwan is a semi-presidential system that has a president along with a parliamentary system. Furthermore, the role of the presidency in the U.S., Korea, and Taiwan is quite different. Taking these variations in political systems into consideration, the authors discuss how the electoral systems are regulated in relation to issues such as paid advertisements and campaign periods. They argue that stronger regulation of election systems and shorter election periods in Japan characterize Japanese uniqueness compared with the U.S., Korea, and Taiwan in terms of Internet election campaigns.

The Political Economy of Capital Market Reforms in Southeast Asia

The Political Economy of Capital Market Reforms in Southeast Asia
Author: X. Zhang
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2011-09-13
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0230346464

In this book, Xiaoke Zhang addresses two fundamental political and policy questions: why do politicians have heterogeneous incentives to pursue public-regarding policies through capital market reforms and why do they differ in their abilities to initiate and implement market reform policies decisively and resolutely?

Party Politics in Southeast Asia

Party Politics in Southeast Asia
Author: Dirk Tomsa
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2013
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 041551942X

Contributing to the growing discourse on political parties in Asia, this book looks at parties in Southeast Asia’s most competitive electoral democracies of Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines. It highlights the diverse dynamics of party politics in the region and provides new insights into organizational structures, mobilizational strategies and the multiple dimensions of linkages between political parties and their voters. The book focuses on the prominence of clientelistic practices and strategies, both within parties as well as between parties and their voters. It demonstrates that clientelism is extremely versatile and can take many forms, ranging from traditional, personalized relationships between a patron and a client to the modern reincarnations of broker-driven network clientelism that is often based on more anonymous relations. The book also discusses how contemporary political parties often combine clientelistic practices with more formal patterns of organization and communication, thus raising questions about neat analytical dichotomies. Straddling the intersection between political science and area studies, this book is of interest to students and scholars of contemporary Southeast Asian politics, and political scientists and Asian Studies specialists with a broader research interest in comparative democratization studies.

Routledge Handbook of Political Management

Routledge Handbook of Political Management
Author: Dennis W. Johnson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 653
Release: 2010-03-17
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1135897492

A comprehensive overview of the field of applied politics, encompassing political consulting, campaigns and elections, lobbying and advocacy, grass roots politics, fundraising, media and political communications, the role of the parties, political leadership, and the ethical dimensions of public life.

The Routledge Handbook of Political Campaigning

The Routledge Handbook of Political Campaigning
Author: Darren Lilleker
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 506
Release: 2024-11-05
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1040175473

The Routledge Handbook of Political Campaigning provides an essential, global, and timely overview of current realities, as well as anticipating the trajectory and evolution of campaigning in the coming years. Offering a comprehensive analysis, the handbook is structured into seven thematic sections, including the campaign environment; rhetoric and persuasion; campaign strategies; campaign tactics and platform affordances; news and journalism; citizens and voters; and civil society. The chapters within each section reflect on the latest societal, technological, and cultural developments and their impact on campaigning, on democratic culture within societies, and on the roles that campaigns might play in both facilitating and impeding political engagement. Key trends and innovations are examined alongside case studies and examples from a range of nations and political contexts. Issues around trust and representation are further reflected in a focus on the wider campaigning environment and the rise in importance of grassroots and pressure groups, social movements, and movements that coalesce within digital environments. The Routledge Handbook of Political Campaigning is an essential resource for scholars, students, and practitioners in political communication, media and communication, elections and voting behavior, digital media, journalism, social movements, strategic communication, social media, and more broadly to democracy, sociology, and public policy.

Electoral Dynamics in Indonesia

Electoral Dynamics in Indonesia
Author: Edward Aspinall
Publisher: NUS Press
Total Pages: 471
Release: 2016-04-05
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9814722049

How do politicians win elected office in Indonesia? To find out, research teams fanned out across the country prior to Indonesia’s 2014 legislative election to record campaign events, interview candidates and canvassers, and observe their interactions with voters. They found that at the grassroots political parties are less important than personal campaign teams and vote brokers who reach out to voters through a wide range of networks associated with religion, ethnicity, kinship, micro enterprises, sports clubs and voluntary groups of all sorts. Above all, candidates distribute patronage—cash, goods and other material benefits—to individual voters and to communities. Electoral Dynamics in Indonesia brings to light the scale and complexity of vote buying and the many uncertainties involved in this style of politics, providing an unusually intimate portrait of politics in a patronage-based system.