Open AccessRATIONAL CHOICE INSTITUTIONALISM, CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM, AND CONSTITUTION MAKER IN INDONESIA
Author(s) -
Adfin Rochmad Baidhowah
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
jurnal politik pemerintahan dharma praja
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2721-7043
pISSN - 1979-8857
DOI - 10.33701/jppdp.v13i2.1328
Subject(s) - argument (complex analysis) , institutionalism , politics , constitution , legislature , new institutionalism , indonesian , historical institutionalism , political science , rational choice theory (criminology) , law and economics , variable (mathematics) , public administration , law , sociology , political economy , mathematical analysis , biochemistry , chemistry , linguistics , philosophy , mathematics
Most political literature argues that outcomes in Indonesian constitutional reform 1999-2002 were determined mainly by the political actors. Notwithstanding the existing research providing insightful evidence, there is still a gap in which those literature discount the role of the party system in shaping and constraining the way the political actors within a party behave. Drawing on one of the new institutionalism concepts – ‘rational choice institutionalism' – the argument puts forth here is that Indonesian multi-party system (independent variable) forced the political parties (intermediary variable) to form a winning-coalition which finally produced a compromised outcome (dependent variable) of constitutional reform on the articles about relations between president and legislature.