TY  - BOOK
AU  - McCoy,Mary E.
TI  - Scandal and Democracy: Media Politics in Indonesia 
SN  - 9781501731051
AV  - P95.82.I5 
U1  - 302.2309598 23
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - Ithaca, NY : 
PB  - Cornell University Press, 
KW  - Communication. Mass media
KW  - Democratization
KW  - Indonesia
KW  - Mass media
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Political corruption
KW  - Political science
KW  - Press and politics
KW  - Press
KW  - Influence
KW  - Asian Studies
KW  - Media Studies
KW  - Political Science & Political History
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Media & Internet
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Note on Spelling and Personal Names --; Introduction: Understanding Democratic Consolidation --; Chapter 1. Origins of Media Controls --; Chapter 2. Delegitimating Authoritarianism --; Chapter 3. Suharto's Fall --; Chapter 4. Reformasi --; Chapter 5. Media in Retreat --; Chapter 6. Baligate and All the Gates --; Chapter 7. Scandal and Democratic Consolidation --; Chapter 8. Media and Civil Society --; Appendixes --; Notes --; Index
N2  - When a popular uprising topples an authoritarian leader,, the moment of regime change sparks hope for a more open, democratic society. Yet making a successful transition to an enduring democracy has proven to be both difficult and rare. In Scandal and Democracy, Mary E. McCoy looks at what happens once the dictator has fallen and discovers that a more challenging problem remains. How can the newly democratizing nation avoid reversing course, she asks, reverting to authoritarian solutions in response to the daunting problems brought by the sudden change? The troubled transitions that have derailed democratization in growing numbers of nations worldwide make this question a major concern for scholars and citizens alike.This study of Indonesia's transition from authoritarian rule finds that democratization's success or failure, consolidation or reversal depends, to a surprising extent, on the role of the media. Although press freedom is widely recognized as a defining element of modern democracies, the media's part in democratic consolidation remains only partly understood. Scandal and Democracy examines how the media's use of new freedoms, particularly the publicizing of political scandal and intra-elite conflict, can ward off a slide into pseudo-democracy or a return to authoritarian rule. As Indonesia approaches the twentieth anniversary of its dramatic student-led revolution of 1998, it remains among the most resilient of the world's new democracies and one of the few successful democratic transitions in the Muslim world. McCoy explores the media's role in this transition and corroborates that analysis with comparative cases from Mexico, Tunisia, and South Korea, and offers the reader a counter-intuitive perspective to explain success and failure in modern transitions to democracy
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501731051?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501731051
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501731051/original
ER  -