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.
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