Electoral System and Party Dimension Assessment in Democratic Indonesia
Abstract: Studies on election
and its consequences on political parties in new democratic countries have
often paid attention to cover the impacts imposed on the party system. This
paper aims to examine the extent of the electoral system in influencing
political parties in terms of improving their function or performance. This
study will apply an analytical framework initiated earlier by webb and White
(2009) on party dimension in the new democracy by looking at the Indonesian
case. In this framework, there are saveral generic factors in the relation
between the electoral system and the party's function such as ideological
polarization, party constituency base, fractionalization in parliament and vote
distribution. This study found that any changes applied to the electoral system
in democratic Indonesian bear little or insignificant impact on political party
performance. In addition, this study made use of the national election result
dataset and calculated the variables with correlated formula which were
subsequently analyzed to obtain an empirical explanation.
Penulis: M. Faishal Aminuddin
Kode Jurnal: jpsosiologidd160147