Electoral Dynamics in the Philippines

Edward Aspinall is a professor of politics at the Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, Australian National University. He has published extensively on the politics of Indonesia, including on democratisation, ethnic politics, subnational conflict and civil society. He is the author of two books, Opposing Suharto: Compromise, Resistance and Regime Change in Indonesia (Stanford University Press, 2005) and Islam and Nation: Separatist Conflict in Aceh, Indonesia (NUS Press & Stanford University Press, 2009). Electoral Dynamics in Indonesia is his tenth edited volume. Allen Hicken is professor of Political Science, a Research Professor at the Center for Political Studies, and the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Michigan. Meredith Weiss is professor of Political Science at the University at Albany, State University of New York.

"One of the strengths of the book lies in the descriptive richness and depth of each case. Each chapter follows a standardized structure to present the fieldwork, leaving readers to infer the cross-case comparisons... Aside from leaving room for future researchers to build upon their rich descriptions with local comparisons, the book provides new ways to think about voter agency, even in a patronage democracy."--Mary Anne Mendoza "Pacific Affairs" "This book is in a class of its own. It is scholarly, comprehensive, wide in scope, and deals with recent Philippine elections (2016)... [it] has the makings of an excellent textbook."--Dr. Federico Magdalena "Journal of Southeast Asian Studies" "This book is a welcome addition to the scholarship on politics and governance, detailing a distinct modal pattern of resilient local political machines in contemporary Philippine electoral politics."-- "MindaNews" "[A] rich 'snapshot' of the political machines as the 'foundational building block of the Philippine patronage system' (p. 9) [and] the first-ever nationwide study of the different ways that local political machines pay off voters and prevent them from filling their ballots in favour of the competition...Electoral Dynamics in the Philippines sets itself apart from the literature."-- "SOJOURN"