Female Candidates, Islamic Women’s Organisations, and Clientelism in the 2019 Indonesian Elections

This article analyses the factors leading to the success of women candidates in the 2019 elections in Central Java. Recent scholarship on women’s representation in Indonesia has highlighted the role that dynastic ties and relationships with local political elites play in getting women elected in an environment increasingly dominated by money politics and clientelism. Our case study of women candidates in Central Java belonging to the elite of the Nahdlatul Ulama (NU)-affiliated women’s religious organisations Muslimat and Fatayat shows that strong women candidates with grassroots support can nonetheless win office. Using the concepts of social capital and gender issue ownership, and clientelism, we argue that women candidates can gain a strategic advantage when they “run as women.” By harnessing women’s networks and focusing on gender issues to target women voters, they are able to overcome cultural, institutional, and structural barriers to achieve electoral success even though they lack resources and political connections.

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The Troublesome “Paradox of Gender Quotas”: A Few Methodological Notes on the Margin of an Article by Michael Jankowski and Kamil Marcinkiewicz

Politics & Gender ◽

10.1017/s1743923x19000011 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 1-8 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Maciej A. Górecki

Keyword(s):

Party-Determined Viability and Gender Bias in Open-List Proportional Representation Systems

Politics & Gender ◽

10.1017/s1743923x19000448 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 1-27 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Rimvydas Ragauskas

Keyword(s):

Gender Bias ◽

Democratic Party ◽

Rank Order ◽

Proportional Representation ◽

Social Democratic Party ◽

Women Candidates ◽

Social Democratic ◽

Individual Level ◽

Female Candidates ◽

And Gender

AbstractUsing individual-level data from three Lithuanian legislative elections (2008, 2012, 2016), this article investigates voter bias in an open-list proportional representation system in which parties rank candidates but voters are able to fully influence the rank order through preferential voting. This study examines the average effects of and variation in gender bias among voters of different parties. Most importantly, it also investigates how party cues interact with gender cues—that is, whether discriminatory tendencies vary by a candidate's party-determined viability. After establishing that there is no evidence of elite bias in favor of or against women candidates, with the exception of the Social Democrats and a few other parties, I demonstrate that, on average, female Lithuanian politicians receive approximately 7% fewer preferential votes than their male counterparts. In addition, the models predict that gender bias is most pronounced against the female candidates who are best placed to enter parliament. Finally, I demonstrate that Social Democratic voters are, on average, the most undisposed toward female candidates, correcting for positive elite bias toward female candidates from the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party, while voters of the Homeland Union party (conservatives) strongly prefer women politicians.

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Unpacking Barriers to Socially Inclusive Weather Index Insurance: Towards a Framework for Inclusion

Water ◽

10.3390/w11112235 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 11 (11) ◽

pp. 2235

Author(s):

Aheeyar ◽

Silva ◽

Senaratna-Sellamuttu ◽

Arulingam

Keyword(s):

Primary Data ◽

Economic Losses ◽

Index Insurance ◽

Problem Analysis ◽

Structural Barriers ◽

Weather Index ◽

Weather Index Insurance ◽

Marginalized Women ◽

And Gender

Floods account for a majority of disasters, especially in South Asia, where they affect 27 million people annually, causing economic losses of over US$1 billion. Climate change threatens to exacerbate these risks. Risk transfer mechanisms, such as weather index insurance (WII) may help buffer farmers against these hazards. However, WII programs struggle to attract the clients most in need of protection, including marginalized women and men. This risks re-enforcing existing inequalities and missing opportunities to promote pro-poor and gender-sensitive development. Key questions, therefore, include what factors constrain access to WIIs amongst heterogeneous communities, and how these can be addressed. This paper contributes to that end through primary data from two WII case studies (one in India, the other in Bangladesh) that identify contextual socio-economic and structural barriers to accessing WII, and strategies to overcome these. More significantly, this paper synthesizes the case study findings and those from a review of the literature on other WII initiatives into a framework to promote a systematic approach to address these challenges: an important step forward in moving from problem analysis to remedial action. The framework highlights actions across WII product design, implementation and post-implementation, to minimize risks of social exclusion in future WII schemes.

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The Category Is . . . Opulence!

Kalfou A Journal of Comparative and Relational Ethnic Studies ◽

10.15367/kf.v7i1.321 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Joseph Plaster

Keyword(s):

Performance Studies ◽

Knowledge Creation ◽

People Of Color ◽

Gender Nonconforming ◽

Johns Hopkins University ◽

The Cross ◽

And Gender ◽

A Performance

In recent years there has been a strong “public turn” within universities that is renewing interest in collaborative approaches to knowledge creation. This article draws on performance studies literature to explore the cross-disciplinary collaborations made possible when the academy broadens our scope of inquiry to include knowledge produced through performance. It takes as a case study the “Peabody Ballroom Experience,” an ongoing collaboration between the Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries, the Peabody Institute BFA Dance program, and Baltimore’s ballroom community—a performance-based arts culture comprising gay, lesbian, queer, transgender, and gender-nonconforming people of color.

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THE CHANGING OF SANTRI’s PREFERENCE TOWARDS STUDIES AND PROFESSIONS: A Case Study at Pondok Pesantren Alhikmah 2 Brebes, Central Java

Al-Qalam ◽

10.31969/alq.v23i2.423 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 23 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Hayyadin Ode

Keyword(s):

Subject Matter ◽

Central Java ◽

Religious Subject

This research aimed to figure out the santri’s preference toward studies and professions in which conduct study at pesantren. Common perceived and stated also at Government Ordinancenumber 55, 2007, that pesantren purposes was to reproduce Islamic scholar (ulama). However, through this study, it proved that not all santri wanted to be ulama, most of them wanted to be a scientist. This study was a case study, conducted in 2015 at Pesantren Alhikmah2 Brebes. Data collected using questionnaire, interview, and document. Those all derived from santris, Kyais, and teachers (asatidz). The research concluded as showed from questionnaire that santri’s preferences toward study has gotten changing to general subject matters instead of religious subject matters; and the santri’s professions and jobspreference has gotten changing to the jobs and professions that based on general subject matter, instead of choose to be ulama (Islamic scholar) most of santri wanted to be scientists, or researchers, or doctors as well as athlete.

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The Complexity of Work for Women who are HIV Positive: A Case Study in DKI Jakarta

Jurnal Perempuan ◽

10.34309/jp.v23i4.269 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 23 (4) ◽

pp. 203

Author(s):

Andi Nur Faizah

Keyword(s):

Qualitative Method ◽

Family Members ◽

Hiv Positive ◽

Difficult Situation ◽

Women Living With Hiv ◽

Hiv Positive Women ◽

And Gender ◽

Gender Categories ◽

Living With Hiv

The phenomenon of HIV-AIDS transmission places women in a difficult situation. The loss of family members such as husbands due to AIDS leaves women living with HIV positive in a struggle to access sources of livelihood. The condition of themselves as PLWHA, concerns about being stigmatized, caring for family members, and earning a living are the burdens of life they have to face. In this regard, this paper explores the complexity of the work of HIV-positive women. This study uses a qualitative method with a feminist perspective to get a complete picture of the livelihood of HIV-positive women. Based on interviews with five HIV-positive women, the findings found a link between social, identity, and gender categories that affect their livelihoods. HIV-positive women also transform themselves into their “normal” self by pretending to be healthy, able to work, have quality, and be independent. This is done as a form of resistance to the stigma attached to PLWHA.

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Case Study: The Southern Oral History Program

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195339550.013.0028 ◽

2012 ◽

Author(s):

Jacquelyn Dowd Hall ◽

Kathryn Nasstrom

Keyword(s):

Oral History ◽

American South ◽

New Era ◽

Chapel Hill ◽

Integral Role ◽

The American South ◽

And Gender ◽

History Department ◽

The University

A case study of the southern oral history program is the essence of this chapter. From its start in 1973 until 1999, the Southern Oral History Program (SOHP) was housed by the history department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), rather than in the library or archives, where so many other oral history programs emerged. The SOHP is now part of UNC's Center for the Study of the American South, but it continues to play an integral role in the department of history. Concentrating on U.S. southern racial, labor, and gender issues, the program offers oral history courses and uses interviews to produce works of scholarship, such as the prize-winning book Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World. The folks at the Institute for Southern Studies tried to combine activism with analysis, trying to figure out how to take the spirit of the movement into a new era.

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‘Women take care and men take charge’: The case of leadership and gender in the Public and Commercial Services Union

Economic and Industrial Democracy ◽

10.1177/0143831x20943682 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 0143831X2094368

Author(s):

Julie Prowse ◽

Peter Prowse ◽

Robert Perrett

Keyword(s):

Leadership Style ◽

Trade Unions ◽

Union Leader ◽

The Public ◽

Union Leadership ◽

Positive Attitudes ◽

Union Leaders ◽

And Gender ◽

Survey Responses

This article presents the findings of a case study that aimed to understand the specific leadership styles that are valued by women and men lay representatives in the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) and to determine the gendered implications for increasing women’s leadership and representation in trade unions. Survey responses from PCS lay representatives (reps) show the majority of women and men agreed that the leadership style they value, and that makes a good union leader, is post-heroic (communal) leadership. This approach is associated with leadership characteristics such as being helpful, sensitive and kind and are generally practised by women. This contrasts with male union leaders who are associated with a traditional, heroic (agentic) leadership style characterised by confidence, self-reliance and decisiveness. Although some differences exist that highlight gender issues, both women and men lay reps have positive attitudes towards increasing women’s representation and participation in union leadership.

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The Effect of Knowledge, Promotion, and Religiosity on Intention to Use Islamic Banking Services

International Journal of Financial Research ◽

10.5430/ijfr.v11n2p128 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 11 (2) ◽

pp. 128

Author(s):

Kardoyo . ◽

Ahmad Nurkhin ◽

Muhsin . ◽

Hasan Mukhibad ◽

Fatmala Dewi Aprilia

Keyword(s):

Significant Influence ◽

Research Result ◽

Educational Background ◽

Islamic Banking ◽

Islamic Banks ◽

Banking Services ◽

The Public ◽

Central Java ◽

And Gender ◽

Knowledge Promotion

This study aims to examine the effect of knowledge, promotion, and religiosity on the interest in using Islamic banking services. The purpose of the next research is to examine the effect of knowledge on religiosity. In addition, this study also examines the effect of educational background and age on saving interest in Islamic banks. The population in this study are customers of Bank Syariah Mandiri, Brebes, Central Java, Indonesia. Ninety-nine research samples were obtained. The data collection method used was questionnaires. The data analysis method used was SEM-PLS. The results showed that only promotion proved to have a positive and significant effect on interest in using the services of Islamic banks. Knowledge and religiosity have not been proven to have a significant effect on interest in using services of Islamic banks. Likewise, background and gender do not have a significant effect. The next research result is that there is a positive and significant influence of knowledge on religiosity; there is also a positive and significant influence on the promotion of knowledge. This study recommends the importance of continuing socialization and education from Islamic banking stakeholders in Indonesia to continue introducing Islamic banks to the public.

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Simultaneous Elections and the Rise of Female Representation in Indonesia

Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs ◽

10.1177/1868103421989716 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 40 (1) ◽

pp. 50-72

Author(s):

Luky Sandra Amalia ◽

Aisah Putri Budiatri ◽

Mouliza KD. Sweinstani ◽

Atika Nur Kusumaningtyas ◽

Esty Ekawati

Keyword(s):

Presidential Elections ◽

Institutional Innovation ◽

Presidential Candidate ◽

Female Representation ◽

Legislative Elections ◽

Women Candidates ◽

Presidential Candidates ◽

Female Candidates ◽

Election Results ◽

Legislative Election

In the 2019 election, the proportion of women elected to Indonesia’s People’s Representative Assembly ( Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat, DPR) increased significantly to almost 21 per cent. In this article, we ask whether an institutional innovation – the introduction of simultaneous presidential and legislative elections – contributed to this change. We examine the election results, demonstrating that, overall, women candidates did particularly well in provinces where the presidential candidate nominated by their party won a majority of the vote. Having established quantitatively a connection between results of the presidential elections and outcomes for women legislative candidates, we turn to our qualitative findings to seek a mechanism explaining this outcome. We argue that the simultaneous elections helped women candidates by easing their access to voters who supported one of the presidential candidates, but who were undecided on the legislative election. Rather than imposing additional burdens on female candidates, simultaneous elections assisted them.

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