Kuasa Rakyat: Analisis Tentang Perilaku Memilih dalam Pemilihan Legislatif dan Presiden Indonesia Pasca Orde Baru

Abstract

Voting behavior is a subject given considerable attention by many political scientists in the present situation of democratization in the post-New Order Indonesia. Although some excellent studies have analyzed voting behavior in Indonesia and explained how voters choose political parties and presidential candidates, they mostly rely on both sociological and psychological models. The sociological model relies on an understanding that religious affinities, region, ethnicity, and social classes are important components of voting behavior. Meanwhile, the psychological model emphasizes the appeal of the leadership of the candidate and the self-identification with a political party (known as “Party ID”), and considers these to be the utmost factors that shape individual partisanship in the ballot.