Flawed Democracy: Beyond Agency and Structure (A Book Review)

https://doi.org/10.22146/pcd.26295

Caroline Paskarina(1*)

(1) Universitas Padjadjaran
(*) Corresponding Author

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This book analyses democratic failure at the local level which is indicated from the political issues that happened in Asahan, North Sumatera. The four political issues are: (1) the limitation of public access toward information; (2) the discrimination in social policy; (3) the ignorance of public aspiration; and (4) the land disputes that followed together with the criminalization towards public activists. In those four issues, public matters management becomes the arena that happens outside public control. Issues about the weakening of public control have become an analysis project that colours the development of democracy study.

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