Scandal and Democracy : Media Politics in Indonesia / / Mary E. McCoy.

"Focuses on the under-theorized role of the media to explain why some democratic transitions succeed and others founder and why some lead to consolidation while others either fail outright or settle into a state of pseudo-democracy that often masks an atavistic authoritarianism"--

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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca : : Southeast Asia Program Publications, an imprint of Cornell University Press,, 2019.
©2019.
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (286 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : understanding democratic consolidation
  • The origins and evolution of media controls
  • Delegitimating authoritarianism
  • Suharto's fall
  • Reformasi and legal reform
  • Media retreat in the 1999 parliamentary elections
  • Baligate and the politics of scandal
  • Scandal and democratic consolidation
  • Media and civil society.