Associate Professor Marcus Mietzner
Areas of expertise
- Government And Politics Of Asia And The Pacific 160606
- Comparative Government And Politics 160603
- Social Change 160805
- Political Science 1606
Research interests
The political role of the military in Indonesia; Indonesian political parties, particularly campaign financing issues; elections in Indonesia; comparative electoral politics in Southeast Asia.
Biography
I have been interested in the politics of Indonesia since my first visit to Jakarta as a teenager in 1986. While pursuing an MA degree at Goethe University in Frankfurt in the mid-1990s, I spent one year in Ambon to collect material for my thesis on the rebellion of the South Moluccan Republic in 1950. After graduation, I moved to the ANU to obtain my PhD. During fieldwork for a thesis on the Indonesian military, I began working for USAID in Jakarta – an engagement that would last for more than seven years. Eventually, however, I returned to academia, finishing the PhD in 2005 and starting my new position as a lecturer at the ANU in 2008. Since then, my research has primarily focused on political parties in democratic Indonesia
Publications
- Mietzner, M. 2013. Money, Power, and Ideology: Political Parties in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia. Honolulu, Singapore and Copenhagen: Hawaii University Press, NUS Press and NIAS Press, 320 pages.
- Mietzner, M 2013. 'Veto Player No More? The Declining Political Influence of the Military in Postauthoritarian Indonesia', in Mirjam Kunkler and Alfred Stepan (ed.), Democracy & Islam in Indonesia, New York: Columbia University Press, pp. 89-108 .
- Mietzner, M and Farrelly, N. 2013. 'Mutinies, Coups and Military Interventionism: Papua New Guinea and South-East Asia in Comparison', Australian Journal of International Affairs, vol. 67, no.3, pp. 342-356 (ERA 2010 Ranking: A).
- Mietzner, M. 2013. 'Fighting the Hellhounds: Pro-democracy Activists and Party Politics in post-Suharto Indonesia', Journal of Contemporary Asia, vol. 43, no. 1, pp 28-50 (ERA 2010 Ranking: A).
- Mietzner, M. 2013. "The Ambivalence of Weak Legitimacy: Habibie, Regime Change and Democratization in Indonesia", in Dewi Fortuna Anwar and Bridget Welsh (eds.), Democracy Take-Off? The B.J. Habibie Period, Sinar Harapan Press, Jakarta, pp. 82-113.
- Mietzner, M. 2013. 'Praetorian Rule and Redemocratisation in South-East Asia and the Pacific Islands: The Case of Indonesia', Australian Journal of International Affairs, vol. 67, no. 3, pp. 297-311 (ERA 2010 Ranking: A).
- Aspinall, E. and Mietzner, M. 2013. 'Indonesia: Economic Crisis, Foreign Pressure, and Regime Change', in Kathryn Stoner and Michael McFaul (editors), Transitions to Democracy: A Comparative Perspective, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, pp. 144-167.
- Dressel, B. and Mietzner, M. 2012. 'A Tale of Two Courts: The Judicialization of Electoral Politics in Asia', Governance, vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 391-414 (ERA 2010 Ranking: A).
- Mietzner, M. 2012. 'Ending the War in Aceh: Leadership, Money and Autonomy in Yudhoyono's Indonesia', in Rajat Ganguli (editor), Autonomy and Ethnic Conflict Settlement in South and Southeast Asia, Routledge, London, pp. 88-113.
- Mietzner, M. 2012. 'Indonesia: Yudhoyono's Legacy between Stability and Stagnation', Southeast Asian Affairs, vol. 2012, pp. 219-235 (ERA 2010 Ranking: A).
- Mietzner, M., and L. Misol. 2012. 'Military Businesses in Post-Suharto Indonesia: Decline, Reform and Persistence', in: J. Rueland, M. G. Manea, and H. Born (editors), The Politics of Military Reform: Experiences from Indonesia and Nigeria, Springer, Heidelberg, pp. 101-122.
- Mietzner, M. (ed.) 2011. The Political Resurgence of the Military in Southeast Asia: Conflict and Leadership, Routledge, London and New York, 178 pages.
- Mietzner, M. 2011. 'Conflict and Leadership: The Resurgent Political Role of the Military in Southeast Asia', in: Mietzner, M. (ed.), The Political Resurgence of the Military in Southeast Asia: Conflict and Leadership, Routledge, London and New York, pp. 1-23.
- Mietzner, M. 2011. 'The Political Marginalization of the Military in Indonesia: Democratic Consolidation, Leadership, and Institutional Reform', in: Mietzner, M. (ed.), The Political Resurgence of the Military in Southeast Asia: Conflict and Leadership", Routledge, London and New York: pp. 126-147.
- Mietzner, M. 2011. 'Overcoming Path Dependence: The Quality of Civilian Control of the Military in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia', Asian Journal of Political Science, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 270-289 (ERA 2010 Ranking: B).
- Mietzner, M. 2011. 'Funding Pilkada: Illegal Campaign Financing in Indonesia's Local Elections', in: Edward Aspinall, Gerry van Klinken (editors), The State and Illegality in Indonesia, KITLV Press, Leiden, pp. 123-138.
- Mietzner, M. 2002. 'Politics of Engagement: The Indonesian Armed Forces, Islamic Extremism, and the "War on Terror"', The Brown Journal of World Affairs, vol. 9, Number 1, p. 71-84.
- Mietzner, M. 2001. 'Personal Triumph and Political Turmoil: Abdurrahman and Indonesia's Struggle for Reform', in: Damien Kingsbury (editor), The Presidency of Abdurrahman Wahid: An Assessment after the First Year, Monash Asia Institute, Annual Lecture Series No. 23, Clayton, p.15-32.
- Mietzner, M. 2001. 'Abdurrahman's Indonesia: Political Conflict and Institutional Crisis', in: Grayson Lloyd, Shannon Smith (editors), Indonesia Today: Challenges of History, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies/Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore 2001, p. 29-44.
- Mietzner, M. 1999. 'From Soeharto to Habibie: the Indonesian Armed Forces and Political Islam during the Transition', in: Geoff Forrester (editor), Post-Soeharto Indonesia: Renewal or Chaos?, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies/Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, pp. 65-104.
- Mietzner, M. 1999. 'Nahdlatul Ulama and the 1999 General Election in Indonesia,' in: Susan Blackburn (editor), Pemilu: the 1999 Indonesian Election, Monash Annual Lecture Series No. 22, pp. 73-86.
- Mietzner, M. 1999. 'Nationalism and Islamic Politics: Political Islam in the Post-Soeharto Era', in: Arief Budiman, Barbara Hatley and Damien Kingsbury (editors), Reformasi. Crisis and Change in Indonesia, Monash Asia Institute, Melbourne, pp. 173-200.
- Mietzner, M. 1998. 'Between Pesantren and Palace: Nahdlatul Ulama and its Role in the Transition', in: Geoff Forrester et.al. (editors), The Fall of Soeharto, Bathurst, pp. 179-199.