Power Conflict Democracy Publication (PCD Publication)
Publisher in Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Gedung PAU-UGM Lt. 3 Sayap Timur, Jl. Teknika Utara, Yogyakarta 55281, Indonesia
Power Conflict Democracy Publication (PCD Publication)
PCD Publication is an initiative to promote works and reports written in high-quality academic standard on the dynamics of power, conflict, and democracy in developing countries, particularly in South and Southeast Asia. Themes on practices of human rights, popular representation, and participatory-based public policy are amongst the interests of the initiative. It is considered that there is a serious lack of scholarly publishers within this geographical area and within these thematic fields, partly, due to the colonial pattern in an international publication. PCD Publication seeks to alter t... see more
Fields of study: Politics & International Relations, Peace Studies, Governance & Transparency, Asian Studies, Law & Human Rights
Parent institution: Research Centre for Politics and Government
Journals published by PCD Publication:
Catalogue
33 results.
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Civic Engagement and Democracy in Post-Suharto Indonesia: a Review of Musrenbang, the Kecamatan Development Programme, and Labour Organising Download• 2012 Indonesia
English
Drawing attention to the wider literature on the linkages between civic engagement and democracy, this paper starts off by asking the question whether civic engagement beyond formal politics actually ... -
Cross-Cultural Learning for Securing Decentralisation and Democratisation: Assessing Indonesia's Response to Globalisation Download• 2012 Indonesia
English
Drawn by globalization, Indonesia's governance has been transformed into a more decentralised and democratically shaped one in the past decade. Given the scale of the challenges, its achievement deser...
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Path to Peace: Contending Discourses on Communal Violence and Conflict in the Post-New Order Indonesia Download• 2012 Indonesia
English
This paper discusses actual discourses that have shaped the ways in which violent communal conflicts have been understood, and how different practices of interventions have been applied to address the...
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• 2012 India • Pakistan
English
This article has attempted to explain why the military has remained a powerful political institution/force in Pakistan. Its purpose was to test a hypothesis that posited that the colonial authority st...
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• 2012 Indonesia
English
Studies on conflict in Indonesia have reached an unprecedented stage in terms of the proliferation of publications, both in print and online. There are two interrelated reasons for this new and signif...
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• 2012 Indonesia
English
Since the resignation of President Suharto in 1998, Indonesia has undergone a massive process of decentralisation and democratisation. Political power no longer concentrates at the national level, but...
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Proliferation of Local Governments in Indonesia; Indentity Politics Within a Troubled Nation State Download• 2011 Indonesia
English
This article aims to scrutinise the phenomenon of proliferation of local government units in Indonesia in order to understand how identity politics has evolved within and through the process of decent...
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• 2011 Indonesia
English
The paper discusses democratisation practiced in Surakarta, Indonesia, which has been claimed by many experts as a municipality with “best practices” of democratic local governance in Indonesia. Their...
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• 2011 Indonesia
English
This paper aims to map out practices of political financing in Indonesia from the political to the socio-historical perspective. Arguing about the party financing and the corruption of politicians and...
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• 2011 Indonesia
English
This article presents a picture of contemporary welfare politics in Indonesia. Adopted in the light of broken welfare-oriented programes initiated by national and local administrations, it was hoped t...
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• 2011 Indonesia
English
This paper attempts to review the features of power relationship between central and local governments in Indonesia since the early independence up to the post Suharto regime. Its central aims are to ...
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• 2011
English
The third wave of democratisation might now be remembered as no more than a reminder of the tumultuous periods of the 1970s and 1980s, when authoritarian regimes in many parts of the world came to an ...
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• August 2010 Indonesia
English
Given the complexity of democratization process in Indonesia, high profile and critically designed researches are in need to ensure that it doesn't miss the critical issue at stake. This article expla...
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• 2010 Indonesia
English
This article summarises and reflects a more extensive analysis about the experiences of attempts to develop and apply analytical tools to comprehend the transformation of Indonesian democracy over 15 ...
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Public Opinion on Peace as a Reflection of Social Differentiation and Politicisation of Identity in Sri Lanka Download• 2010 Sri Lanka
English
This article provides a critical analysis of the public opinion on peace in Sri Lanka, with consideration to two determinants: social differentiation and politicisation of identities. Specifically, it...
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• 2010 Sri Lanka
English
This article provides a critical understanding of dynamics behind the roles of the People's Liberation Front (JVP) in post-1977 Sri Lankan politics. Having suffered a severe setback in the early 1970s...
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Why the Proportional Representation System Fails to Promote Minority Interests? a Discussion on Contemporary Politics and the Sri Langka Muslim Congress Download• 2010 Sri Lanka
English
Proportional representation (PR) is favoured as the most suitable form of electoral system for multi-ethnic societies because it allows every vote to be counted. It, therefore, provides a strong incen...
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• 2010 Indonesia
English
Democratisation in post-Suharto Indonesia has significantly improved political participation, lifting expectation of bringing better political representation. However, various studies prove that such ...
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The Soft Power of Small State: Discursive Constructions and Institutional Practices of Norway's Peace Engagement Download• 2010 Norway
English
Since the end of the Cold War, Norway has widely functioned as facilitator for conflict resolution in interstate conflicts and, thus, constructed Norwegian foreign policy as an international peace pro...
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• January 2010 Indonesia
English
Acceptance of democracy as global norm, retain debate on its essence, and disagreement of what democracy really means lead to even a wide range of debate on how democracy is institutionalized in real ...
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Social Welfare Politics in Contemporary Indonesia: Understanding the Social Welfare System Vision in Act 11 of 2009 Download• 2010 Indonesia
English
This study attempts to understand how the social welfare politics developed in the contemporary Indonesian politics work by focusing on the policy making process of Act 11 of 2009 on social welfare. T...
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Cross-Cultural Learning for Securing Decentralization and Democratization: Assessing Indonesia's Response to Globalization Download• November 2009 Indonesia
English
Drawn by globalization, Indonesia governance has been transformed into a more decentralized and democratic shaped in the last decade. Given scale of the challenges, its achievement deserves admiration...
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• May 2009 Indonesia
Bahasa Indonesia
Buku ini didasarkan atas survei yang menunjukkan bahwa demokrasi Indonesia, selain memperlihatkan kemajuan-kemajuan juga memperlihatkan beberapa kemunduran. Adalah benar bahwa rakyat yang sudah bebeas... -
• 2009 Indonesia • Sri Lanka
English
The state of democracy in the Global South is marked by a striking paradox: while liberal democracy has attained an ideologically hegemonic position through two so-called waves of democracy, the quali...
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• 2009 Brazil
English
The point of departure for the Power, Conflict and Democracy Programme (PCD) is the critique of the two conventional explanations for the problems of democratisation in the global South for being empi...
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• 2009 Indonesia
English
This article is based on two surveys on the state of democracy in Indonesia in order to assess the progress made by actors of democracy following the reformasi, bringing the authoritarian rule under S...
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• 2009 Bangladesh • India • Nepal • Pakistan • Sri Lanka
English
This paper is a preliminary report on citizens' understanding and perceptions of democracy in Sri Lanka, as refl ected in a survey carried out in 2004-2005. The survey was a part of a South Asian stud...
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State and Civil Society Relationships in Indonesia: a Society-oriented Reading in Search for Democratic Space Download• 2009 Indonesia
English
Indonesia occupies a special place in Southeast Asian studies literatures not only because it is the largest plural society and most populous nation in this region, but also because of the political d...
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• 2009 India • Sri Lanka
English
In Sri Lanka's political science research, the body of work directly on the theme of democracy is somewhat thin. The survey and studies on the ‘State of Democracy and Human Security”, carried out by t...
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Conflict Resolution and Democratisation in the Aftermath of the 2004 Tsunami: a Comparative Study of Aceh and Sri Lanka Download• 2009 Indonesia • Sri Lanka
English
The earthquake off the west coast of Sumatra on 26 December 2004 unleashed a tsunami in the Indian Ocean that affected more than a dozen countries throughout South and Southeast Asia and stretched as ...
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• 2009 Sri Lanka
English
Knowledge production on the concept of ‘citizenship' in Sri Lanka has suffered firstly from the anglophilia of most research in the social sciences undertaken in the postcolonial period. Unlike in the...
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Putting Democracy Under an Ethnographic-lens: Understanding of ‘Democracy' and Popular Politics of JHU in Sri Lanka Download• 2009 Sri Lanka
English
Research on democracy and democratisation has tended to emphasise macro-level explanations of ‘transition' and ‘consolidation' which stress the roles played by institutions and elites. By and large, t...
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Proliferation of Local Governments in Indonesia: Indentity Politics Within a Troubled Nation State Download• August 2007 Indonesia
English
The number of district and municipality in Indonesia has been doubled within six years. The local government is proliferated in the sense that they are multiplying in such a short period. They were “o...