Author: Marcus Mietzner | Journal of Democracy

Marcus Mietzner is an associate professor at the Coral Bell School.

October 2019, Volume 30, Issue 4

Southeast Asia’s Troubling Elections: Nondemocratic Pluralism in Indonesia

Edward Aspinall
Marcus Mietzner

For the second straight time, voters rejected a presidential candidate with ties to undemocratic Islamist forces, but victorious incumbent Joko Widodo felt compelled to tone down his support for liberalism.

October 2014, Volume 25, Issue 4

Indonesia’s 2014 Elections: How Jokowi Won and Democracy Survived

Marcus Mietzner

Indonesians came close to electing as their new president a populist challenger promising to restore the country’s predemocratic order. Democracy prevailed in the end, but its continued vulnerability was exposed.

April 2014, Volume 25, Issue 2

How Indonesia Won a Constitution

Marcus Mietzner

A review of Constitutional Change and Democracy in Indonesia by Donald L. Horowitz.