Performing Politics: The 2007 Parliamentary Elections in Timor Leste

McWilliam, Andrew; Bexley, Angie

doi:10.1080/14442210701656029

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“…Such practise is reinforced by extensive networks based on kinship, ethnicity and other social groupings whose bonds of membership are forged and maintained through reciprocal obligation and reward. Referring to Timor-Leste's recent parliamentary elections, McWilliam and Bexley (2008) argue that for Timorese the political process is not about development policy per se: 'almost everyone in East Timor was familiar with or related to one or more candidates. In this electoral context, political platforms and policy goals tend to be interpreted through the lens of familial ties, personal allegiances and historical grievances'.…”

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The political economy of accountability in Timor‐Leste: Implications for public policy

Blunt¹

2009

Public Admin & Development

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SUMMARYWith a view to establishing the likelihood of the occurrence of state capture and different forms of corruption and the feasibility of their management and prevention, important aspects of the historical, social, economic, political and governance context of Timor-Leste are examined. This context is found to be conducive to various forms of state capture and systemic grand and petty corruption, and to be resistant to conventional short-term technocratic anticorruption remedies. While the latter are likely to have public relations benefits that may be helpful to the maintenance of political stability in the short run, it is argued that significant anticorruption progress is a long-term endeavour, achievable principally through: sustained impartial service delivery that undermines beliefs in patronage; hastening-through general education and the creation of a conducive legal environment for business-the emergence of leaders of integrity and the growth of a middle class; and the establishment of the rule of law.

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The political economy of accountability in Timor‐Leste: Implications for public policy

Blunt¹

2009

Public Admin & Development

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“…After Timor's Independence in 2002, tensions between these two generations played out in debates concerning language, belonging and national identity (Bexley 2007a(Bexley , 2007b(Bexley , 2009. A decade later, a minority of Geração Foun has moved into politics and senior government positions, joining the Geração '75 political leaders (McWilliam and Bexley 2007). The majority of the Geração Foun, however, remains unsatisfied with Independence and feels marginalised from its political processes.…”

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Consuming Youth: Timorese in the Resistance Against Indonesian Occupation

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Tchailoro²

2013

The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology

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This article explores the role played by risk-seeking Timorese youth, known as the New Generation (Geraçao Foun), in the resistance movement against Indonesian occupation (1975Á1999). It discusses the capture, regimentation and marginalisation of youthful radicalism by the national resistance movement. The paper looks at these processes of youth revolutionary involvement sympathetically though the memories of former participants in the clandestine struggle and is representative of a new reflexive phase in young Timorese' post-colonial self-realisation. This phase is decidedly nontriumphalist, one which dwells on the inability to be 'recompensed' for the dreams that were captured and lives that were side-tracked in a conflict that consumed youth.

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“…Much has been written about East Timor and the challenges it faces as an independent nation, particularly with reference to the 2006–07 political crisis in the country ( e.g ., Kingsbury and Leach ; McWilliam ; McWilliam and Bexley ; Rees ; Scambary , , ; Shoesmith ; Simonsen ; Traube ). However, relatively little attention has been paid to the situation post‐independence of those who left East Timor during the civil war of 1975 and the Indonesian occupation.…”

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