Indonesia was in a parlous condition in 1998. Only a few years earlier, in of the Third World's the mid-1990s, it had often been portrayed as one of success stories.¹ President Soeharto's military-backed New Order was certainly authoritarian but it had underwritten political stability for almost three decades since the bloody upheaval surrounding the collapse of President Soekarno's Guided Dem…
Buku relatif tebal ini tidak hanya menurut dari awal dirumuskannya Pancasila hingga perjalanannya melalui demokrasi terpimpinnya Bung Karno, Orde baru-nya Pak Harto, sampai dengan zaman "reformasi sekarang ini, tetapi juga mencoba meyakinkan akan pentingnya bahkan semakin pentingnya pancasila dewasa ini. Penulis berusaha keras mengembangkan pengertian Pancasila tidak hanya sebagai ideologi dan …
Tema yang dibahas dalam buku ini adalah tema yang sedang mencuat dalam perdebatan pembangunan di Indonesia. Buku ini mengemukakan isu-isu penting di balik gagasan Good Governance selain mengungkapkan sejauh mana inovasi telah terjadi dalam mempromosikan partisipasi serta apa peran dan kontribusi organisasi Civil Society maupun Komunitas Internasional untuk mewujudkan terselenggaranya Good Gever…
"The Politics of Change draws on N.K. Singh's experience to give the reader a window into India's politics and economy, providing incisive insights into the realities of coalition politics and international fault lines. The analyses help understand why some initiatives have succeeded in transforming the economic landscape while other bills, schemes and initiatives which were launched with good …
Known for its comparative approach and its strong balance between theory and practical real-world examples, Power and choice continues as a best-seller, offering a brief but rich introduction to Political Science. Organized topically, this text maintains its use of extended examples of appropriate countries and its strong underlying theme: the contrasting purpose of political institutions as a …
This text embraces a comparative approach with a balance of theory and practical examples. Updated to reflect the current global condition, the book is aimed at lecturers who like to use a core main text and supplement it with readers, handouts, and other classroom activities.
The fifth edition continues with an eclectic approach that avoids selling any single theory, conceptual framework, or paradigm as the key to political science. Attempts to impose a methodological grand design are both unwarranted by the nature of the discipline and unconducive to the broadening of students in- tellectual horizons Instructors with a wide variety of viewpoints should have no trou…
Prabowo tak habis-habisnya jadi berita. Setelah namanya mendominasi media massa di tahun 1998, kini dia maju ke pemilihan presiden 2009 dengan Partai Gerindra sebagai kendaraan politiknya. Setelah sempat menjadi tokoh antagonis di tahun 1998, kini dia ingin menjadi pemeran utama perpolitikan Indonesia-yaitu menjadi RI-1.
Buku ini merupakan sebuah produk penelitian. Buku ini menggunakan perkembangan lingkungan hidup dan penggambaran politik di masa yang akan datang sebagai ide pokok. Buku ini bertujuan untuk tambahan wawasan dan ilmu pengetahuan dalam memahami politik dalam era anti-politik. Buku ini terdiri dari sepuhuh bab dan dilengkapi penjelasan mengenai struktur politik pemerintahan dan sektor-sektor pemba…
This book is in a way the final chapter of my D.Phil. thesis on pragmatism and truth, which was submitted at Oxford University over a decade ago. I had intended then to say something about moral judgement, but David Wiggins, who supervised that thesis, showed me just how far I had to go before I got anything close to right enough.