Indonesi A Model For Democracy

Australia and Indonesia political systems are instrumental in shaping the development of individual nations. These systems determine the policies that are to be followed by the government and the governed and aim to establish political stability. Despite Australia is a constitutional monarchy and Indonesia is a republic, the two country have many similarities and differences in the political system. This extended response identifies and compares the key features of government system and election between Australia and Indonesia political systems.

This requires putting historical events and texts into a political context. A good textual example is the U.S. Constitution. It is both a historical and historic document, in that it describes the creation of a new form of government by the Founding Fathers, and a political one, in that it sets the framework for the functioning of the U.S. government as a system of shared powers, checks and balances. Historians are more detailed as opposed to political scientists, who focus primarily on generalizations. A political scientist may put two studies alongside one another to look for similarities and

Douglas E. Ramage, ”Indonesia: Democracy First, Good Governance Later,” Southeast Asian Affairs 2007:1 (2007), pp. 152.

Political history emphasizes the actions of the government and how they must adapt their process of evaluation to the constantly changing time periods. Many times, modern day government officials and politicians look to history when they’re making new policies or putting together a major decision. Having

Political science is the study of politics and power from domestic, international, and comparative perspectives. It demands understanding political ideas, ideologies, institutions, policies, processes, and behavior, as well as groups, classes, government, diplomacy, law, strategy, and war. Political science focuses only on politically organized societies. The scope of political science is narrower than the scope of sociology. Sociology studies all the social institutions whereas political science studies only state and government. Political science deals with the conscious activity of man, and sociology deals with both conscious and unconscious activity of man. Politicians can examine crime by investigating how politicians use the issue

Political theories are based on the classic thinkers such as Thucydides and Plato and more modern thinkers such as, Wendy Brown or Seyla Benahabib, and they “focus on such philosophers engaged political problems that are relevant today.” Political theories engage in political issues and it self reflects about political life. They have at least three or less, specialties of historical periods such as ancient “(the Golden Age of Greece and Rome); and modern from (Machiavelli

Entering the Early Independence Era, the Dutch’s role was getting weaker and replaced by the Japanese. However, the Japanese occupation had been just a while before they surrendered to the allies after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki City. Consequently, a power vacuum occurred in Indonesia that later used by the youth along with President Soekarno and the Vice President Mohammad Hatta to proclaim the independence of Indonesia as a state.

Historians can be every day people recording day-to-day events, politicians making decisions that will affect masses, or biologists recording statistics for animal populations. With these various backgrounds comes overlapping of perspectives between them. The collective perspectives in the times of events, strolling hand in hand with the way these events were recorded, shape the way modern historians view it. Henry Thomas Buckle stated in regards to collective history that, “The singular spectacle of one historian being ignorant of political economy: another physical science, some by one man, and some by another, have been isolated rather than united.” This statement was made in the nineteenth century, and since then communications have developed and blended all of the various backgrounds quite conveniently. The researcher now has unlimited access to primary and secondary sources. Thus, making research for in the day historians much easier and less painstaking when putting together various

After four long years of fighting and tense negotiations, the Dutch finally recognized Indonesian independence at the end of 1949. The President of this new fledgling nation was a man by the name of Achmad Sukarno, and he would lead this nation through its revolution in 1945 up until 1967 when he was forced to resign. His reign was one of founding, which demeaned the idea of parliamentary democracy as inappropriate for the Indonesian people, and so he adopted a policy known as Guided democracy, a type of autocratic rule. But due to the diversity of both the people and radical differences of political parties within this new weak state and the uneven representation of political factions, this governmental system was doomed to fail. The instability of the new Indonesian government coupled with the attempts of Indonesia’s first president to pit different

Stephan Haggard, a political scientist from UC Berkeley and Robert Kaufman a professor of public affairs at Rutgers write a book about how there has been a widespread movement from authoritarian to democratic rule among developing countries, often happening alongside terrible economic crises and the adoption of market oriented reforms. These events bring up many questions regarding the relationship between economic and political change. In this book, the authors explore this relationship and ask questions like: What role have economic crises played in current democratization? What favorable economic and institutional conditions is democracy most likely to be strengthened with? Looking at the present political economy as well as 12 Latin American and Asian countries, the authors portray a new method to understanding democratic transitions.

History is particularly relevant in our topic of discussion of analyzing knowledge of the past and the ever-changing future. Historians usually navigate through the past and the present in an intricate balancing act to form a coherent bridge between these two entirely different times.

Politics and Progress: The Emergence of American Political Science by Dennis Mahoney is an account of the origins of contemporary political science in the Progressive Movement. In the book, Mahoney, attempts to show how American political science came to be due to the influence of three different factors. The first factor is German Historicism and its allgemeine Staatslehre, or general State theory. The second factor is philosophical pragmatism and the final factor is political Progressivism. Mahoney also writes about how the new American political science has turned away from political philosophy and the laws of nature described by the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.

According to the advocates of this approach, political theory can be only understood when the historical factors like the age, place and the situation in which it is evolved are taken into consideration. As the

Democracy can be divided into separate different types. Presidentialism is a democratic type of government where president is either the head of state or a representative to the parliament. There are also hybrid regimes that combine different type of democracies to best fit that country’s needs. In other words, there are many types of democracies, although this essay will focus on three types of democratic systems: the presidential system, the semi-presidential system, and the parliamentary system. As for countries that are transitioning from authoritarianism to democracy, they need a type of government that would not bring a sudden change to the political status quo, for it could be devastating, but also slowly, yet steadily, introduce democratic type of governing. It would also need to be resilient to a collapse of democracy and be just at the same time. This essay will try to cover types of democratic systems, including both positive and negative sides, and explain what sort of democratic government would be the best for a country transitioning into a democratic state.

The traditional approaches to political science were widely prevalent till the outbreak of second World War. These approaches were mainly related to the traditional view of politics which emphasized the study of the state and government. Therefore, traditional approaches are primarily concerned with the study of organization and activities of the state.