Oligarchy Ancient and Modern

Grewal, David Singh

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-93834-5_12

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“…Oligarchy can be wild or tame (Lewis and Hendrawan, 2019). It is divided into several types: warring oligarchy, ruling oligarchy, sultanistic oligarchy, and civil oligarchy (Grewal, 2022). Indonesian politics can be explained using the four types of oligarchy.…”

Section: Political Oligarchy Conceptmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The protest voting behaviour among local voters in the 2020 Surakarta mayoral election

Subekti

Sutan

Nurmandi

et al. 2023

Asian Journal of Comparative Politics

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This research explores the protest voting phenomenon in the Surakarta, Indonesia, mayoral election in response to political oligarchy. It uses a qualitative method, and the data analysis uses NVivo 12 Plus software. The findings reveal that the protest voting movement in the Surakarta mayoral election occurred as an effort to resist political parties. The protest vote made ballots invalid, showing no trust in candidates. Political parties practiced oligarchy by jointly endorsing the president's active son as a candidate. The parties had no initiative in bringing up alternative candidates due to the pragmatism of powers. Then, this political oligarchy became headline news. This research implies that public trust in political parties as instruments of democracy has increasingly degraded due to the parties’ pragmatic behavior. Moreover, voters have understood that oligarchic practices must be resisted in order to select ideal leaders.

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Section: Political Oligarchy Conceptmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Winters (2011) said there are five main types of personal power: formal political rights, official positions in government or organizations, coercive power, mobilizing power, and material power. The oligarchs have huge power over resources that benefit themselves and their groups (Grewal, 2022).…”

Section: Political Oligarchy Conceptmentioning

confidence: 99%