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Marcus Mietzner is affiliated with the Australian National University in Australia and specializes in the social sciences, with a focus on sociology, political science, and international relations. Their work spans topics including Asian studies and history, Southeast Asian sociopolitical studies, populism and right-wing movements, Indonesian election politics and participation, Islamic studies and radicalism, as well as cultural and religious practices in Indonesia.

The scientist has published extensively on the political dynamics and sociopolitical developments in Southeast Asia, particularly Indonesia. Notable recent papers include:

  • Populist Anti-Scientism, Religious Polarisation, and Institutionalised Corruption: How Indonesia's Democratic Decline Shaped Its COVID-19 Response (2020, Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs)
  • The Myth of Pluralism: Nahdlatul Ulama and the Politics of Religious Tolerance in Indonesia (2020, Contemporary Southeast Asia)
  • Sources of resistance to democratic decline: Indonesian civil society and its trials (2020, Democratization)
  • Rival populisms and the democratic crisis in Indonesia: chauvinists, Islamists and technocrats (2020, Australian Journal Of International Affairs)
  • The limits of autocratisation in Indonesia: power dispersal and elite competition in a compromised democracy (2024, Third World Quarterly)

Their research has been published frequently in several academic journals, including:

  • Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs
  • Contemporary Southeast Asia
  • Democratization
  • Third World Quarterly
  • Australian Journal Of International Affairs

In addition to journal articles, Marcus Mietzner has several book publications. Three titles have been published by Cornell University Press eBooks, all titled The Coalitions Presidents Make in 2023. Another significant book is Democratic Deconsolidation in Southeast Asia, published by Cambridge University Press in 2021.

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers including Burhanuddin Muhtadi, Jun Honna, and Edward Aspinall. These co-authors have contributed to the development of research on political and social issues within Southeast Asia.

Best Publications

  • Reinventing Asian Populism: Jokowi's Rise, Democracy, and Political Contestation in Indonesia

    Marcus Mietzner

  • The politics of military reform in post-Suharto Indonesia : elite conflict, nationalism, and institutional resistance

    Marcus Mietzner

  • Indonesia's democratic stagnation: anti-reformist elites and resilient civil society

    Marcus Mietzner

  • Party Financing in Post-Soeharto Indonesia: Between State Subsidies and Political Corruption

    Marcus Mietzner

  • Problems of Democratisation in Indonesia: Elections, Institutions and Society

    Edward Aspinall;Marcus Mietzner

  • Explaining the 2016 Islamist Mobilisation in Indonesia: Religious Intolerance, Militant Groups and the Politics of Accommodation

    Marcus Mietzner;Burhanuddin Muhtadi

  • Fighting Illiberalism with Illiberalism: Islamist Populism and Democratic Deconsolidation in Indonesia

    Marcus Mietzner

  • Military Politics, Islam and the State in Indonesia: From Turbulent Transition to Democratic Consolidation

    Marcus Mietzner

  • Comparing Indonesia's party systems of the 1950s and the post-Suharto era: From centrifugal to centripetal inter-party competition

    Marcus Mietzner

  • Indonesian Politics in 2014: Democracy’s Close Call

    Edward Aspinall;Marcus Mietzner

  • Populist Anti-Scientism, Religious Polarisation, and Institutionalised Corruption: How Indonesia’s Democratic Decline Shaped Its COVID-19 Response

    Marcus Mietzner

  • How Jokowi Won and Democracy Survived

    Marcus Mietzner

  • Political Conflict Resolution and Democratic Consolidation in Indonesia: The Role of the Constitutional Court

    Marcus Mietzner

  • Dysfunction by Design: Political Finance and Corruption in Indonesia

    Marcus Mietzner

  • Fighting the Hellhounds: Pro-democracy Activists and Party Politics in Post-Suharto Indonesia

    Marcus Mietzner

  • Soldiers, Parties and Bureaucrats: Illicit Fund-Raising in Contemporary Indonesia

    Marcus Mietzner

  • Local Elections and Autonomy in Papua and Aceh: Mitigating or Fueling Secessionism?

    Marcus Mietzner

  • Political Opinion Polling in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia: Catalyst or Obstacle to Democratic Consolidation?

    Marcus Mietzner

  • Southeast Asia's Troubling Elections: Nondemocratic Pluralism in Indonesia

    Edward Aspinall;Marcus Mietzner

  • The Myth of Pluralism: Nahdlatul Ulama and the Politics of Regligious Tolerence in Indonesia

    Marcus Mietzner;Burhanuddin Muhtadi

  • Authoritarian innovations in Indonesia: electoral narrowing, identity politics and executive illiberalism

    Marcus Mietzner

  • Indonesia's Democratic Paradox: CompetitiveElections amidst Rising Illiberalism

    Edward Aspinall;Marcus Mietzner

  • Money, Power, and Ideology: Political Parties in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia

    Marcus Mietzner

  • The Yudhoyono Presidency

    Edward Aspinall;Marcus Mietzner;Dirk Tomsa

  • Indonesia's 2009 Elections: Populism, Dynasties and the Consolidation of the Party System

    Marcus Mietzner

Frequent Co-Authors

Edward Aspinall
Edward Aspinall Australian National University

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